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Quick question fans!! A big YES! If you still love Commander Lawrence and would like for him to be a part of the testaments!!!

Do you support the love story between Nick and June? ❤️
Are you rooting for them, or do you think their love is too tangled in the past? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Imagine signing your rights away for cheaper groceries.

𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐨…
I don’t think there’s a single character in The Handmaid’s Tale who suffered more than Janine. Not even June, who, in many ways, became a “celebrity handmaid” and had support, even from some Commanders.

Janine represents the ordinary, powerless person, the ones with no allies, no protection, no friends in high places. Her suffering was relentless and inescapable. Just look at how she was passed around: from Ofwarren to Ofdaniel, then Ofhoward, Ofjoseph, and finally Ofpaul. I honestly think she served more Commanders than anyone else in the series.

Every single scene with Janine breaks my heart, even the rare ones where she’s happy. And because she was given comparatively less screen time (despite being the deuteragonist), it is easy to forget just how much pain she endured.

And let us talk about Madeline Brewer, the brilliant actress behind Janine. She brought so much raw humanity to the role that you couldn’t help but ache for her. What an extraordinary performance. Truly phenomenal.

“The best way to describe Daisy is that she says the thoughts every viewer has subconsciously but never says aloud,” Lucy Halliday explained to THR in her natural Scottish accent. “Whenever you watch The Handmaid’s Tale, all the really logical [thoughts], like, ‘What the heck is going on? Why are these people acting that way?’ — Daisy comes in and verbalizes them. She’s the audience’s perspective in Gilead.”

In an early episode, viewers will learn through a number of flashbacks the real reason why Daisy has chosen to enter this regime on her own volition. As Halliday plainly puts it, Daisy is on a mission: “She sees Gilead as this force that has decimated her life in Toronto. Daisy doesn’t even live in Gilead, and yet Gilead has been impacting her. She’s very much set on taking down Gilead — and taking from Gilead what Gilead took from [women].”

What Daisy does not anticipate, however, is feeling a kinship with the other girls, whom she initially (and wrongly) assumed were “robots” without any crushes or dreams of their own. “The relationships are very much a wonderful byproduct of this venture into Gilead,” Halliday adds. “It’s not something Daisy’s looking for or even wants initially, but it is something that transforms her and her outlook on Gilead.”

Much like in Handmaid’s Tale, famous for its striking handmaid red, color will play a central role in identifying the various social classes of women in Gilead. While Daisy stands out visually in white as a “Pearl Girl,” known as Aunts-in-training, the rest of the main girls are dressed as “Plums,” young girls who will soon be eligible for marriage.

The Testaments will be continuing to shed light on Aunt Lydia’s life before Gilead through a series of strategically placed flashbacks.

“She’s wrestling with the realization that the Commanders were not who she thought they were, and their horrid, despicable behavior. Many of those Commanders are now gone, but Commanders still are men, so ultimately they’re in charge,” Dowd told THR between camera set-ups during a busy day of shooting indoors at Lydia’s academy, where there is a striking life-sized statue of the character in the front foyer, as was shown in the trailer. “Lydia is very, very savvy, as she writes [her observations about the regime] in her room. She keeps it entirely secret, but keeps track of what goes on. So when the time comes, all the evidence is there. She’s a very smart woman who knows what she can deal with, how much she can change, and what the Commanders are going to be in charge of.”

“She’s not in a position where she has to beat people into submission. As a human being, she couldn’t do that anymore. So if she was going to take her time and change Gilead in the slow, inexorable way that she could, she has to be in a position where she can tolerate the day to day. She has put herself in a position where she doesn’t have to do the bad things anymore — but she’s absolutely at the center of influence and power.”

At the end of the day, “Lydia is more than a devotée of Gilead. She’s a devotée of Lydia, so she always thinks she’s right. It doesn’t matter if Gilead is wrong — [she thinks] she’s still right,” Miller adds. “She has the agenda of, ‘I’m going to sniff out which men are good and which men are evil, and we’re going to do a little changing of the guard.’ That’s why she took this position. As she goes along, she’s thinking, ‘Maybe these men aren’t really fit to be in charge.’ But all the way along, she thinks she’s been doing God’s work, and she still thinks she is.”

Dowd and Miller both believe that Lydia knows about Agnes’ true identity in The Testaments, but the latter points out that there’s a slight difference between knowing and being certain in Gilead. “[The Aunts] are the women who have access to the Bloodlines Library. [Lydia] knows who’s connected to who, so they don’t have any problems genetically,” Miller says of Agnes being June’s daughter. “I think she knows that Agnes is connected to June, and Lydia has been watching Agnes since she was young because she is both worried and intrigued by what June’s influence genetically will do.”

While continuing to shed light on Aunt Lydia’s life before Gilead through a series of strategically placed flashbacks, the 10-episode first season largely centers around Agnes MacKenzie. “Agnes” is the Gilead name for June and Luke’s daughter, Hannah, who in this series is introduced as she comes face-to-face with Daisy, a new arrival from Toronto with ulterior motives for joining Aunt Lydia’s academy.

“This is a sequel to Handmaid’s Tale, the show. There are parts of the Testaments book that take place very far in the future, and we want to save those things for far in the future; they’re goals we’re working towards. But there’s a compact bit of the story that takes place with the girls when they’re going through this process of finding husbands. That, as a core, is what we’re shooting [Season 1] for.

You definitely don't belong in this group if you think that the show wasn't a warning us. If you don't want to get political about how this show is mirroring our lives and what we have in store I Christianity has its way, stay delusional. Hand maids Tale was a book before it was a show. It was and always has been warning to us!

Your nervous system responds to nutrients, not just stress.
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