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withallthingslove · 6 years

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the handmaid’s tale s2ep12 thoughts

under the cut because spoilers

- as much as I love yvonne seeing serena touch holly and acting all maternal made me feel icky

- I really like aunt lydia when she is looking out for june. She clearly doesn’t like june’s defiant spirit but they seem to have developed a rapport with one another

- The real question is does she buy the story about holly’s birth?

- Did those two commanders buy fred’s story? 100% no they h8 him and don’t believe him

- also fuck fred. He’s rewarding nick and then rubbing holly in nick’s face all at the same time

- WHEN JUNE SAW HOLLY AND TRIED TO RUN I GOT SO SAD

- NICK’S FACE WHEN AUNT LYDIA SAID HOLLY LOOKED LIKE HER DAD MADE ME SO SAD

- these two kill me

- fred definitely has a pregnancy fetish. But A+ acting to joseph fiennes again for when june started leaking

- Serena is so fucking petty smh. She knows what “her” baby needs and gets upset because it shatters the illusion that she isn’t her real mom

- also there is nothing wrong with adoption. If I were to ever have kids I’d probably adopt but serena is a monster and essentially holly’s kidnapper. It’s not actually adoption

- I’m not sure what my take on commander Lawrence is... The vibe I get is that he is a very cruel man by nature, he has some socialization problems based on how he was asking emily questions, but he does have regrets and those are fighting his naturally cruel nature

- also his martha’s name is Cora and in the books that was the name of the waterford’s second handmaid

- His poor wife. Gave me a lot of the yellow wallpaper and jane erye vibes. Like she has a right to be upset but she’s treated like she’s crazy and therefore became a lil cray

- Watching commander lawrence was weird though because out of all the commanders he seemed the most unpredictable. Which makes him dangerous. Aunt lydia picked up on it too

- THE KITCHEN SCENE BETWEEN NICK AND JUNE DESTROYED ME I AM DECEASED

- They both light up around each other and love their baby so much

- And then I just started imagining them as a real family and got sad

- I also love that June asked Nick if the name Holly was okay. Like how parents do when they are naming a kid hajhfjkdnfkjewf

- Serena trying to breastfeed... it was laughable but you could also feel her desperation. She closed the doors and acted rushed like she could be caught at any moment and was embarrassed. And then she apologized to Holly when it didn’t work. I almost felt for her but gurl get it through your head that baby is not yours

- When fred called eden a slut I felt so offended

- I love the job joseph fiennes does because he is so convincing. But because he is so convincing I’m either pissed at fred or he makes my skin crawl

- And during the kitchen conversation with june I had both reactions

- He calls Eden a slut, but he goes to jezebels on the regular. He then makes june feel guilty for hiding from him (but in such a convincing way it echoes the book where no matter how terrible he is “offred” can’t bring herself to hate him and she almost feels bad for him) and tries to illicit sexual favors for letting june see hannah. ENOUGH ALREADY

- Okay I loved the scene between Nick and Eden as much as I loved the scene between June and Nick because MAX BROUGHT IT this episode

- He was so convincing in this scene and sydney sweeney also did great

- people are gonna hate him and blame him for not being nicer to her but literally his options were be an asshole and straight up ignore her or lead on and therefore take advantage of a brainwashed 15 year old girl... so he picked the safest route which was comfortable distance

- Here that all falls away. The way he was talking to her so intimately just fit so well. Before he kept his distance like if he was forced to babysit and didn’t want to (which was the right call for the situation) but here he flipped to super protective ride or die because that’s again what the situation calls for. Trying to talk sense to her and protect her and try to get through to her. This boy is so compassionate and no matter how cold he was deep down he still cared for her well being

- But Eden is a teenager in “love” and has made up her mind.

- Even though this clearly broke Nick, I’m glad they had that final conversation where they put everything out there. Nick got to apologize, Eden got to apologize and she seemed to grasp what situation he was put in by their marriage and realized they were never going to love each other. And they forgave each other and she made her choice.

- Watching everyone in the stands... even fred had tears but they seemed like angry tears almost. Serena was horrified, June and Rita were almost sick, and Nick was praying up until the last moment that Eden would confess, almost cried, and then pushed down the tears

- The actual drowning was not as graphic as I thought it would be? Is that bad to say? In the s2 trailer it seemed so horrific and eerie but it did not reach that level of horror for me. Maybe I just detached myself idk

- Nick turning away from june’s touch... normal reaction I can’t imagine what he’s feeling. Lots of guilt. Plus the knowledge that he and june are guilty of the exact same thing. His breakdown is coming in 3...2....1

- Serena realized that none of them are safe. Not even Holly/Nichole (lol it should be Nickole)

- So she let June breastfeed because she knew it was the best thing for the baby

- And then we are left with a shot of serena watching june nurse... looking happy and content. The writers are obsessed with serena and june’s relationship

Next episode:

not speculating because I know spoilers. I knew spoilers going into watching ep.12 and they ended up being true so I’m guessing the ones for the finale are also accurate

#the handmaid's tale #the handmaid's tale spoilers #june osborne #elizabeth moss #max minghella #nick blaine #yvonne strahovski #serena joy waterford #joseph fiennes #fred waterford #ann dowd #alexis bledel #aunt lydia #sydney sweeney #tht #tht spoilers #mine

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vibrantbloom · 6 years

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hi becks pls do a tv show rec post

Thanks for asking bub, sorry it took me literal weeks to finish it! There are a lot here so just the first ten are above the cut since you wanted my all time faves rather than current shows, these are a mix of what’s important in my heart for tv:

Jane the Virgin: Gina my love, leading up a wonderful cast! This show is my biggest rec, it makes my heart so full

Gilmore Girls: My lifelong fave, I’ve been watching this show for 14 years and I’ve never found a show as important to me

The Good Place: This show was meant to just be a fun light watch and now it’s something I eagerly wait for every week because it’s gotten so damn interesting

The Bold Type: I love these girls so much, it’s the fun group of pals show that I’ve been looking for with the added mix of the Kat sexuality/Kadena storyline

Breaking Bad: This is still the best show I’ve ever watched tbh, I think about it constantly and I just started another rewatch of it! I hated it at first but friends got me to stick with it and it was worth every second in the end

Parks and Rec: One of the best light comedies out there, basically every episode is gold and something you can put on at any time and enjoy

Crazy Ex Girlfriend: Everyone who talks to me a lot knows that I had the weirdest relationship with this show, I hated everything it’s made up of but was fascinated! Now I’m just completely hooked and it’s overwhelming

Lost: This show is a mess and I still love it in my heart, it started my life of analysing tv shows intensely

Big Little Lies: This was prob my show of the year, obviously the subject matter isn’t for everyone but it’s great

Black Mirror: Bleak and dark and so many episodes are things that have stuck with me for years

The Office: I mean we’ve all seen this right? You all get it

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Is there a lot of shit to do with this show? Absolutely but it was also a huge part of me falling in love with tv so here we are

Grey’s Anatomy: Why am I still watching this after 14 years? I have no idea but I’ve watched it every week of those years and still going strong so here we are

Broad City: It disappointed me a bit this season but I think the spark is back in the last couple of eps, the chemistry between Ilana and Abbi is gold

Orange Is the New Black: Has turned to shit in a lot of ways but I’m still in it for a bunch of the characters, even if I expect they might fuck them over

Last Week Tonight: I’ve been following John Oliver for years so I was incredibly happy when he got this show and it’s still one I watch as soon as I possibly can after it’s come out

Scandal: It’s a terrible over the top show in so many ways, especially now but I’d die for Kerry Washington and I know I’ll watch it as long as it’s on

Mindhunter: It wasn’t everything I wanted it to be but still an incredible show and one of my fave directors so I love the style

Chef’s Table: I’m all about food shows in general but I’m so completely here for the montages of food they do at the end of this show

American Crime Story: I thought the OJ series was done extremely well and I’m waiting in anticipation for their take on the other stories they have coming up

UnREAL: This is so trashy but also v well done, I absolutely love this show bc the fake behind the scenes concept speaks to me and I can’t wait for it to be back

New Girl: This is such a comfort show for me, I’m okay that it’s ending but I’ve really loved it over the years

Black-ish: Another fab sitcom, I always need a few comedies in my life

The Handmaid’s Tale: This show is ofc slightly terrifying but such a fantastic adaptation of the book

How to Get Away With Murder: It’s lost the magic now but what a great show it was in the beginning

Humans: I’m so into any sort of dystopia type of tech stuff so this show was right up my alley

Master of None: If you watch nothing else, please just watch the Thanksgiving episode because it makes my heart feel so much

Please Like Me: I just finished a rewatch of this and it’s still such a great gay show to have on, a bit heavy for me at times but great show

Santa Clarita Diet: I really expected to hate this but I actually really loved it and am looking forward to more, becks enjoying an odd humour zombie comedy who saw that coming

Pushing Daisies: This show was weird and both sunny and dark at the same time, it’ll have a place in my heart forever

The Good Wife: One of the only shows I watched week to week up to the very end, my kind of show

#I've had this half done in my drafts for ages #lizlemo #friests #xtina #tv show recs #recs #rec lists

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alex51324 · 7 years

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Handmaid’s Tale, eps. 1-4

Been watching the Handmaid’s Tale and reading through the tag; now it’s time for some observations--I think I’ve got a few that haven’t been made many times already.

1. The impregnation “Ceremony” has been (justly) praised for not sexualizing the rape--everyone is clothed, wordless, and businesslike; the camera remains mostly trained on June’s face, which is blank as she goes away inside her head. Sometimes it switches to her perspective as she stares up at the ceiling, putting the viewer in her position.

It strikes me that that view of Offred is, pretty much, what Serena Joy would see if she looked down. We do see her face occasionally in these scenes, and it’s as blank as June’s, staring straight ahead at her husband as he fucks. More often, we see her lower body, as Offred’s head rocks against her crotch. While she’s more complicit in this situation--not to mention on-board with the intended outcome, a baby she will get to raise--she is also receiving intimate contact that she does not want.

(Also, it seems a little weird that the men in charge think this particular position for the Handmaid’s head is a good idea, given their views on lesbianism. I mean, it’s difficult to imagine anyone finding this genuinely pleasurable, but friction is friction; it pretty much has to have happened that some Wife, at some point, has had a physical response that, if she’s drunk the Gileadean Kool-Aid, would be distressing for her.)

2. In the “Birth” episode, June’s delivery of her own daughter is intercut with Janine’s labor with the baby that will be raised by her Commander and his Wife. And then, as the baby is taken away from her and given to the Wife, we see June waking up in the hospital to see her own newborn missing, and finding another woman carrying her away, convinced that the baby is her own. The other woman is forcibly subdued as she wails with grief when baby Hannah is returned to June.

One reading of this scene is that June represents Janine, and the grief-crazed woman Warren’s Wife. In the flashback, the baby is returned to June, who gave birth to her. It’s a happy ending--temporarily happy, since we’ve already seen slightly-older Hannah torn from her mother’s arms, but it’s the way something like that should turn out.

But. In each scene, one woman is left grieving with empty arms, and is treated without sympathy by those in power, while the other joyfully holds the baby and is comforted. It isn’t fair that Janine had a healthy baby--a difficult feat in this world--and had it taken away from her, but it isn’t fair that the other woman’s baby died in the hospital, either.

3. Also, and--the grief-crazed woman claims that, when she was told her baby died, she knew it couldn’t be true. We know that the baby she took is definitely not hers--we saw June give birth; we saw newborn Hannah, and it’s the same baby--but we don’t know, we can’t know for certain, that the woman is wrong about the fate of her own baby. The plague of infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth, and neonatal death has been going on for some time, and the government of Gilead can’t have sprung forth from nothing. For all we know, they could have already been snatching babies and redistributing them to the more “deserving,” just covertly rather than openly. The future leaders of Gilead would have to have hospital staff in on their scheme, but how hard would that be?

This happened to unwed mothers in 50′s and 60′s--most of the time, the women were pressured into handing over their babies, or if they were minors their parents gave consent, but there were cases where they were told their babies had died and later found out they hadn’t.

Maybe June got to keep her baby--until she didn’t--because at that time, she had enough status that they were afraid to try it on her--she was married, she had a professional-type job; if she started claiming her baby was stolen, someone might believe her. Maybe the other woman was less credible--unmarried, poor, less educated. Maybe she engaged in some sort of high-risk behavior, or was mentally ill, and a nurse or somebody convinced herself it was right to give the baby to someone who could give it a better life.

4. Why does Serena Joy still smoke? It made sense in the book, because in the 80′s a lot of people smoked, and the danger to a developing fetus wasn’t common knowledge. I guess she could have started after finding out she was infertile,as a sort of nihilistic gesture, but that explanation doesn’t quite satisfy me.

5. In the last episode, after June and Moira escape and June gets brought back, the other Handmaids give her food. This has, AFAIK, universally been read as a gesture of solidarity, lightening the overall bleak tone of the series. And, I mean, it is, but--

In the book, the narrator talks about Moira’s escape giving the other women hope, that resistance is possible. But June’s recapture also justifies a decision not to resist: the women can be glad that someone, somewhere is resisting--and maybe she’ll send back help, somehow--but June, right in front of them, is a vivid example of why it might be better just to keep your head down.

So--are they expressing their gratitude to her for trying to escape? Or for being brought back, and validating their choice not to try to run? Chances are, they don’t even really know themselves.

#handmaid's tale #the handmaid's tale #series #cw rape mention #cw child abduction

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theseventhhex · 7 years

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School of X Interview

Rasmus Littauer

Currently touring drummer for MØ and Major Lazer, Copenhagen-based Rasmus Littauer spends the majority of his time on the road. Rare downtime is spent writing and producing tracks for his solo project, School Of X. Littauer has unveiled the first taster of his sound in the form of new single ‘Words’. The song sits somewhere between synth-pop and electronic dance, blending a loose groove with a sharp melodic chorus and booming drums. Dreamy and raw, Littauer’s vision of music is significantly more varied than that of his famous friends, as his determined direction looks certain to serve him well for future happenings… We talk to Rasmus about having a flow, running and being honest…

TSH: With your solo project being more of a state of mind than a narrative, what sort of sounds are you looking to capture?

Rasmus: I think pretentious is a pretty bad word to describes this project, but this solo venture is slightly pretentious for me. I'm mainly looking to create a big sound and an intimate feeling at the same time. To have my sound somewhere in between would be ideal. It's not like I'm aiming for something specific, but I just like music that gives off feelings that are intimate and personal.

TSH: How do you go about structuring your songs?

Rasmus: I record everything in my room, which is also my studio, and then, at times, I go to another studio to do the drums. For me, as long as I have a flow with everything, that's what matters. If I have a flow in my room, I'll just do the drums there too, but sometimes it's nice to go elsewhere to lay them down. Also, when I have the structure of a song, I go to my brother, who is a synthesiser genius. My brother has walls of synthesisers and he'll dub stuff for me, as well as adding small details, which is really helpful.

TSH: Does being well travelled inspire your creative process?

Rasmus: I'd say so. It's very inspirational to travel, meet people and hear different opinions. I also feel that the loneliness I encounter on my travels is inspirational too.

TSH: Are there particular songwriters that you look up to?

Rasmus: Musically and production wise, I'm very inspired by hip-hop. One artist that I really admire is Lana Del Rey. Her melodies, harmonies and lyrics are so cool. Lana is a genius and someone with a lot of talent.

TSH: You also rate Freddie Gibbs highly?

Rasmus: Yeah, he's another really cool musician; I haven't heard his latest record yet though. I saw him at Bonnaroo a couple of years ago and I thought he was really good. I'm also a huge Madlib fan and that's who Freddie was touring with at the time. Speaking of hip-hop, obviously Kendrick is leading the way, but I also really like Future and Young Thug too.

TSH: What was the process like in bringing together 'Words'?

Rasmus: The whole process for this song was organic. You know, I never listen to other music and aim to do something similar - I never work with reference tracks. Other producers and songwriters try this method, but I don't have any luck with it. 'Words' is all around natural, even though It's easy-going and complex , plus I really like how the synthesisers are woozy sounding. The change into the chorus with a very high vocal was really cool too. The whole song was kind of different to what I normally make. I feel this track will connect very well with the rest of the material that's upcoming on the EP.

TSH: Moreover, what are the origins of the track 'Las Vegas'?

Rasmus: That song is about restlessness and wanting something you can’t have. Or maybe you can have it, but you lose something else. I guess this feeling is something we all know about, especially with relationships and women, haha.

TSH: Has touring the world with MØ and Major Lazer helped your own musical expressions?

Rasmus: Of course when you work with commercial music like Major Lazer, MØ and even others I've worked with, you learn a lot about the music industry and you become aware of so many various factors in the business. You're facing music every day so it makes you think a lot about what you want to do with your career and puts things into perspective. However, unlike those artists, the music that I make I feel has chosen me, since this is the only type of music that I can make, you know? I don't have the need to make some other type music, so it's pure and raw from my point of view.

TSH: What emotions do you commonly feel being so immersed in music?

Rasmus: Well, it's not therapeutic for me at all. I do get something out of saying something out loud with music, it can be always helpful, but it's not like therapy for me, and it doesn't help me overcome any difficulties. Music is just a continuous thing in my life and I just go with the flow. I just like to be in the moment and take every day as it comes. It's so important to live your life with gratitude, especially in these times with the Internet being all over the place and people living inside their cell phones. I have a lot of ambition and life goals, so I want to avoid needless distractions.

TSH: What type of non-musical factors have you found inspiring lately?

Rasmus: I've been reading an inspiring Hurami Murakami book about running. He’s been running since he was like 20 years old and now he's 60 something. Reading his book is very inspirational because I run as well - it helps me to relax and it clears my mind. I’ve also recently started playing tennis, it's really cool.

TSH: Do you still unwind via watching TV shows?

Rasmus: Yeah, right now I'm watching the latest season of House of Cards, it's a brilliant show that is so fascinating and interesting. I also recently saw the first season of The Handmaid's Tale; it's another really top show about how fucked-up America is.

TSH: What are your musical intentions as you look ahead?

Rasmus: I think it's all about being honest to myself and maintaining an honest way of expressing myself. If my music is not honest, people can see right through it. It's also very much about being happy and positive as much as I can be. I mean I get depressed just like everyone else, but it's not my lifestyle to get depressed about depressing stuff, I like to separate that stuff and always remain positive at all times. It's way too hard to live your life with fear. I do care about all the fucked up things in the world, but I have to live my life and achieve my goals.

#Interview #School of x #Rasmus littauer

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