HANDMAID's TALE Moments That Surprised Everyone

[@MovieAddicts]

Do you have other moments you were suprised by?

[@HeatherJSN]

When the girls were handcuffed to the stove. That was the hardest to stomach.

[@greenbird777]

When June and Commander Lawrence were forced to do the "ceremony" (I keep wondering if she's going to end up pregnant by him). When Jeanine disappeared of the edge off the bridge as June looked on in horror. When June punches Fred in the face 👏. When Lily (Ofglen) lifts her hand to warn the Handmaid's about what she's going to do, then running down the isle with the trigger high in her hand, her dress fluttering & flapping like flames, her "wings" flying off her head as she runs...

[@GeorgiaKouri]

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Spoilers⚠️⚠️⚠️When Serena read in front of the board it was quite surprising cause so far she was pretty strict following the rules. Then of course when June completed the ceremony with commander Lawrence and I guess also when she let his wife die. Also another surprising scene is when June panches Fred back ( I really enjoyed that ). When we learn that Eden's father was the one that ratted her out and then when Fred and Serena rape June so she can give birth faster by using the "natural way". When Ofglen and Mayday detonated the bomb. Lastly when June travels to DC and she finds out that the handmaid's lips are sealed with metals ( that was pretty fucked up ). That's all I can remember. 😁

[@susanbraddy2277]

Most of it surprised me, especially when Ofred gets sent to her room when she isn’t pregnant she gets the blame even though it’s not her fault. When Agnes’s Martha is hung when her life was never put in danger, probably her friend Guardian Parker

[@anneshields2010]

When Fred whipped serina a real man would never hit a woman

[@jakemasterson6057]

Moira when she walked onto the plane at the end of Season 3 to see all of the people June got out of Gilead - best scene ever (so far)

[@jacobdenness8659]

Moria finding out she's on Luke's list in the refuge centre

[@atticusmartin5447]

When Emily was replaced with the new Ofglen. When mexican ambassador asked offered if she is happy. When June saw Moira at Jezabells. When Jeanine tried to comment suicide. When June was recaptured after trying escape. When the man that tried to help her escape was put on the wall. When Ofglen bombed the new rachel and Leah center. When June was left alone at the abandoned house and had to give birth. When June found out that the Waterford wanted baby Nichole return from Canada. When Maggie was hung and the Mckenzies disappeared. When Ofmathew killed a Guardian at all flesh. When June killed George at Jezabels. Mayday.

[@iamwhoiambecausethelordlov3893]

The most heartbreaking scene that triggered me was season 3 last episode with Briana and Alma.

[@drutalero2962]

The scene where Fred and Serena were led to Canada without them realizing and then being arrested by the United States and Canadian governments.

[@nicross9551]

Serena led Fred there. She orchestrated his arrest and cut a deal

[@picasso1190]

How Eden's father was the one who turned her in!

[@e.j.johnson5756]

That was a shocker, even for me. That just shows how people can become so conditioned to fear in a Totalitarian government that they will turn on their own family just to survive.

[@iamwhoiambecausethelordlov3893]

Yesss

[@CindersVale]

Some Hitler Youth turned in family members because indoctrination had turned their minds over to Hitler's control.

[@ajheartsong]

Wow I forgot that part!

[@LolaB87]

I was sick to my stomach. How could you do that? Smh

[@PippiPippi98765]

When Esther (the 14-year old wife) showed the dimensions of her rage - oh my God, even I got scared (and I'm 55 :-)

[@aadamkhan4972]

When the Mexican ambassador didn’t care after june told her how bad everything was. When the handmaid turns around in the capital and she had 3 rings in her mouth.

[@e.j.johnson5756]

Yeah, that wasn't in the book. Good addition, though.

[@Michelle-iz5bh]

@@e.j.johnson5756 Everything beyond season 1 isn’t in the book 🙂

[@e.j.johnson5756]

@@Michelle-iz5bh yes, that's true.

[@aadamkhan4972]

@@e.j.johnson5756 I never read the book, I only watched the tv show and I’m addicted, rewatched it a total of 7 times now lol

[@haloreachlover99]

I believe she's an undercover agent for the US gov in exile, the whole world hates RoG and want it destroyed.

[@saffiegirl4158]

How about the DC handmaids having their mouths pierced shut?

[@jennlovesbert1094]

I think that was the most shocking scene for me too.

[@pawsplants_pics5683]

Wow just wow. Serena's initial horror then to threaten June w. It. The tape to Luke was awesome as well

[@susanbraddy2277]

That was awful to see. How do they eat I thought?

[@pawsplants_pics5683]

@@susanbraddy2277 very methodology! Maybe with a straw?

[@susanbraddy2277]

@@pawsplants_pics5683 What if they vomit, just lean forward and hope it comes out or just swallow it back? Just seems awful, everything they do is soo bad but have to watch,

[@diannefrancois2640]

When June killed Commander George at jazabel's... And the waterford' were arrested in Canada...And aunt Lydia was stabbed by Emily.

[@PeBoVision]

Absolutely...although I don;t know if they were disturbing moments or "stand up and cheer" moments.

[@louisemothersole6044]

Also: When June is shown her baby against her will to force her to lactate. & I had some friends who were so shocked when she cut the tag out of her own ear at the beginning of season 2 that they stopped watching at that point. (I agree with the rings in the mouths of the Handmaids in the capital.)

[@zeej80]

The Handmaid who suicide-bombed the new Racheal & Leah Center in Season 2!

[@teniseuna]

Omg! I screamed! And the way she ran in... her pose was so symbolic it was like the lady of liberty 🗽! RIP to the handmaids who were killed... there are casualties to war...

[@caborabassa696]

@@casie6609 no. Many commanders died.

[@rhyanshelby6572]

When Eden didn't get everyone killed, only herself

[@Void_Dweller7]

8:00 They should’ve just thrown the Rocks at Lydia instead.

[@katcott1547]

They’re surrounded by men with machine guns and lose body parts for disobeying but ok lol

[@anneshields2010]

Oh hell yeah I agree

[@Void_Dweller7]

@@katcott1547 Eh, I’d say it’s worth it.

[@pawsplants_pics5683]

This was really cool. I was surprised by the hotel scene w. June. How it was handled. Cleaned and incinerated. Except that one spot.... 🤔

[@iamwhoiambecausethelordlov3893]

Yes that's my favorite

[@pawsplants_pics5683]

@@iamwhoiambecausethelordlov3893 are you current w. S4 ?

[@rachelowens3998]

The spot that was missed on the door frame. 😐 😤

[@janemarinelli2838]

When Warren’s left arm was cut off for cheating on his wife That definitely put a scare into Fred.

[@lemsip207]

I thought that was just his left hand.

[@HYTELES]

June killing that high ranking commander and getting away.

[@sarmajere2866]

Natalie (OfMatthew) being kept alive as a vessel for her baby, and the doctor admitting to June that she wasn't his patient or priority. The fact he seemed dismayed but resigned felt so much worse for me, like even the people who WOULD have once fought against this have had no choice but to fall in line or be punished themselves. Also the moment Emily's colleague at work is shown hanged due to his being gay in one of her flashbacks.

[@nielubieinceli]

Well, keeping the dead mother "alive" to child beeing able to birth at safe moment of pregnancy also happens nowadays. In Poland we had such situation a couple years ago - a mother died in a car accident and she was pregnant. Her child survived and doctors (with her husband permission) did something like this. I think, it's ok, woman is dead and feels nothing, baby has a chance to survive. But mother wasn't raped to be pregnant, they both wanted this chlid. But she was already dead for sure.

[@blaist]

When June try to talk with the handmaid in DC, so she make a Lot question and try to star a conversation then suddenly the handmaid take off the mask and Her mouth was sealed with rings😰😰😰 that was a looot shook

[@mugglescakesniffer3943]

Eden recites the definition of Love in 1 Corinthians 13.

[@lemsip207]

Nick had urged Eden to repent so she wouldn't have been executed but Eden refused.

[@mugglescakesniffer3943]

Remember that everything that happens in the show has a REAL WORLD mirror. That means if it happens in the show it happened in the real world. Margaret Atwood did it in the book and the people who do the TV show abide by the same rule.

[@pamhubbard1]

Really? I’ll have to read the book now.

[@chrisgoode37]

They drown girls and women in the family's swimming pool if she has broken a patriarchal rule. This is in Saudi Arabia. Still going on. So sad.

[@mugglescakesniffer3943]

I love this show and can totally relate to it.

[@irishcountrygirl78]

Yeah the wife sitting behind the handmade whilst the handmade gave birth to get the full experience, that was so weird 😂.

[@Local_Lorax]

When June is at the old Boston Globe factory and she sees that it was a slaughter house with the execution wall and nooses.

[@lemsip207]

That's why so many people were sacked from their jobs in publishing and newspapers as there wouldn't be a need for them as much with women being forbidden to read. So the men working in those jobs would be redeployed.

[@melindahall7422]

The moments that were shocking to me. When Fred beat Serena when came home from the hospital. She had tried to help Janines baby in the hospital.

[@TheWalkingJewels]

Ummm every episode every moment.

[@lemsip207]

When Offred is depressed and taken for a walk by Serena where they bump into Mrs Putnam and she pretends she is happy and just before there are two little girls in pink dresses and white bonnets playing outside. It's winter but not cold. Reminds me of what life would look like even for the well off without advertising, cinema, magazines, computer games and popular music with few books and not much on TV. What life was like a century ago. Would be very dull. That could be how Hannah was living her life now. You think there might be more to life but wonder what there is.

[@Vanna-vp4cn]

When Nick broke down and went forth with the "ceremony" with his child wife Eden.

[@leighann5590]

When Serena took June to see her daughter and left her in the car.

[@anneshields2010]

I felt so so bad for poor Eden being killed like that I was shouting for fucks sake she’s a kid A high school kid who should be studying for exams and that but forgot their would be no schools or exams and anyway Nick had no feelings for her

[@lemsip207]

There are school for the girls but they don't learn to read and don't learn the usual subjects. It's all verbal teaching not visual but they would see diagrams.

[@cyndicamarillo6164]

You said if there's a moment that was hard to watch that you left out to put it in the comments or something to that effect. The part where the commander spanked his wife with a belt and left stripes on her butt that was hard to watch I thought just as much so as him having her finger cut off. That's when I really began to hate that man

[@thedaviszone5187]

Did I miss that scene? I don't remember a commander spanking his wife. When was that?

[@krissypyne3783]

@@thedaviszone5187 If I remember correctly it's season 2 episode 8

[@noah_thebeast9227]

When June didn't step in to help or even call for help when Commander Lawrence's wife committed suicide

[@turzahall3876]

"The Ceremony" is the cruelest idea . Everyone involved looses.

[@EboniFlowers]

I feel like only the women lose....

[@caborabassa696]

Not the men.

[@ashleyhammond4711]

In all honesty, I'm surprised babies are even born! This kind of torture on the birth mothers would definitely inhibit babies to be born at all... stress, trauma, comfort are all factors in having a healthy baby and less potential for miscarriage.

[@yusrilanwar3612]

How the disabled people, got feed to the dogs

[@verawestervoort9338]

What episode?

[@yusrilanwar3612]

@@verawestervoort9338 i think it's season 3 episode 13 Mayday

[@momsurvival8147]

I don’t remember this happening at all and I’ve watched the show all the way through like 5 times and read the book

[@sarmajere2866]

@@momsurvival8147 More of an implication, but one that I definitely noticed. It's the scene where June is being "processed" in the flashback as 3.13 starts, where the woman are shuffled through what looks like a factory and onto trucks. It's followed by the scene where Janine is loudly screaming obscenities, before the fight went out of her and where we see Brianna with her gorgeous hair unbound. The guards are wrenching away walkers from women, some girls and younger women with Downs are shuffled along, and you hear screams and the dogs growling and barking. I think they also showed some disabled women being given medical tests, while naked. This was horrifying for me because I AM physically disabled and I've worked with kids in special education classes and I could picture specific students in this situation, and it's stuck with me ever since.

[@iamwhoiambecausethelordlov3893]

@@sarmajere2866 I remember that scene, it also had women with down syndrome and other deformities. 😔

[@anneshields2010]

Love this show also I really think that Serina should leave Fred and Gilliatd and go to Canada and go back to her old life

[@greengrl29]

Christopher Meloni's death and ensuing cover-up

[@zeej80]

Girl!!!! When I saw that scene for the 1st time, I was GAGGING!! I cheered June on as she beat Winslow to death!

[@MadameMeowth]

When Detective Stabler became his own episode of Law and Order: SVU

[@greengrl29]

@@MadameMeowth I love that!

[@teniseuna]

He deserved it... the way he treated those handmaids was horrific! There mouths was all sewn shut, and had so many kids you could’ve only imagined what they went through...

[@iamwhoiambecausethelordlov3893]

@@MadameMeowth Not SVU anymore it's organized crime.

[@meganr3565]

Rings on the Handmaids mouth in DC

[@kimmorris321]

The handsmaid in DC? The rings confused me on how they eat, communicate ect. It didn't seem like a realistic idea 😕

[@angelajohnsonkeys4199]

I assume they took them out if they got morning sickness???

[@TeamMaddisonYT]

Janine's (almost) death was because Janine tried to jump off a bridge with the baby, and kill the baby and herself.

[@Mommalovesyou2]

You called a handmaid it. Very Gilead-like.

[@heylla1219]

I do not know how to feel about serena and aunt lydia is gay.

[@notrelevantanymore545]

First

[@andytapi2752]

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