‘Better never means better for everyone.
It always means worse for some.’
Are you excited by the prospect of more Gilead?
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I’m waiting to see where this first installment leaves off before I decide.
A match made in heaven.
There’s a quiz in there: 10 ways to tell how he feels about you.
He brings you small gifts.
Yep, we see you, Nick, loitering in the kitchen.
She just has a request.
A proposal, of sorts.
And she’s got just the guy: Nick, who has apparently already agreed.
Offred agreesbut really, does she have much of a choice here?
Before she can ask more questions, the new Ofglen interrupts, and they can’t speak any further.
On the walk home, that woman warns Offred not to mess this up for her.
“This isn’t messed up?”
Offred tells herself to calm down.
“So how come this time it feels like I’m cheating on Luke?”
Ah, Luke (O-T Fagbenle).
(Side note: Did you notice the little girls playing outside?
Their coats were handmaid red, and it gave me the creeps.)
And sure enough, when she asks him to leave his wife, he agrees.
in full view of Serena Joy, and he looks at her much differently than he ever did before.
“You think?!”
“We had choices then,” she says.
“Childrenwhat else is there to live for?”
“Every love story is a tragedy if you wait long enough,” he says.
Well, not quite.
“Better never means better for everyone,” he admits.
“It always means worse for some.”
Before Offred can answer, her partner pulls her away.
The Eyes then drag her out from broken windows and take her away.
What’s going to happen to her now?
It definitely can’t be good.
But Offred sees it as a sign that her friend wasn’t broken despite what she’s been through.
“They didn’t get everything.
There was something inside her they couldn’t take away,” she thinks to herself.
“She looked invincible.”
