wait, WHAT?!?
How do they eat?
Also, I can't believe they were broadcasting that last scene - that is hardly an image you want to project to the rest of the world if you need their support.
Probably a 100% mush diet.
shareIt actually doesn't make sense on multiple levels, food was just the first one that came to mind.
The whole purpose of the Handmaids is to provide healthy offspring - a rotting mouth and no solid foods would be very much in the way of that.
Extremists do not think things through. That is why they are extremists.
shareNo, I think the problem is with the writers of the show writing things just for shock value.
Not that the original book made a lot of sense, but now that they are off-book it's worse.
What is worse, what is good, that will always be a personal judgement. The only thing that has confused me is the "econowives". In the book any woman capable of reproduction was made a handmaid, but the econowives seemed to have escaped that fate. Correct me if I'm wrong.
shareI haven't read the book, just know bits and pieces from it based on everything I've seen and read about the show over the past three years. So based on what I know, I would think the econowives are the ones whose marriages were actually recognized by Gilead as valid.
June's marriage was not, because Luke was divorced prior to marrying her. Divorce was outlawed, meaning Luke was still married (in the eyes of Gilead) to his first wife, and June was just a mistress.
I suppose the reasoning is that a "fallen woman" like that can just as well be everybody's wh*re.