The Testaments S1E10 "Secateurs"

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... we're just starting it at this moment.

Um, generally, what did you guys think of this one? I can go first and just say so much happened in this episode, and it really capped off a great season, but I think it set things up for next season really, really well.

Mm-hmm.

I loved it.

I thought-This whole season has on some level been about these girls waking up to the oppression that they've been under and the injustice of Gilead, and then this episode it really ended on them deciding to do something about it, and they got a win.

And so that just sort of set the tone for the future, I think.

And I liked it.

Yeah.

I mean, it was a win, but it was a win that it had a huge cost to it.

Yeah.

Yeah, they all ...

Th- I- there was a lot of sacrifices.

Yeah.

One particularly big one, yeah, for sure.

And that's The Handmaid's Tale.

Yeah.

I, I was reluctant to watch it again.

Like, after I watched it the first time, I was just kind of dreading watching it again, not because it wasn't fabulous, because it was, but it's just, um, really left an impression on me.

And, you know, just watching the plight of Becca was really heartbreaking and hard.

I think that over the season the girls have been learning more and more about their world as they're becoming young women about to be married off.

And I think in this episode they really got to see the cost of it, and also that their pri- the price that you have to pay, um, to rescue or protect the people you care about is often incredibly high.

And I think f- especially for Daisy, she realized that the life of one person in the grand scheme of things isn't worth as much as she probably thought it was, and to her these are women with names and personalities, and those outside of Gilead who are fighting the bigger fight don't see it that way because why would they? They're not in it.

They don't know them.

They're just faced with trying to win a war.