00:00Hey, I'm Lauren and today I'll be reviewing The Handmaid's Tale for our Watch & Go, a show where we review the show that we just recently watched while we wash our hair.
00:10I wash my hair with the AG Hair Care Cleansing Cream and then I also mix it in with the DivaCurl One Condition Original Daily Cream Cleanser.
00:22And then from there I'll be going into the Aunt Jackie's Not On My Watch Instant Detangling Therapy.
00:29I use the Brazilian Curly Cocktail by Miel Organics and then I also mix this with the infamous Eco Styler Gel.
00:37I'll be detangling with the Curl Pro Wet Brush.
00:40So I'm gonna go wash my hair real quick and then when I come back I can detangle.
00:46I had another name, but it's forbidden now. So many things are forbidden now.
00:53I know this must feel very strange.
00:58But ordinary is just what you used to be.
01:07My name is Offred and I intend to survive.
01:12Margaret Atwood wrote this book about this super like crazy dystopian society where pretty much the only point of women is to have babies. That's it.
01:26You just reproduction. That's all you good for.
01:29Throughout the TV show there's a main character Offred who is played by Elizabeth Moss which I kind of forgot she was an actress but I'm glad she resurfaced.
01:39Offred literally means a Fred who is her commander in the show.
01:43Elizabeth's purpose is to have babies for the commander and his wife.
01:50To me it started off really really dark because the second episode involves like some surgical mutilation.
01:58Yeah, I know right.
02:00Once you get past that you just kind of see Elizabeth or Offred's story into how she's trying
02:07to break free. What the commander is doing to her. How their relationship progresses on.
02:12Then we also have Samira Wiley who is Offred's rebellious friend of some sorts.
02:18This is all in the future.
02:20Right. This is all in the future.
02:22It does like repeated flashbacks in the past but that's when she was free and she could have her own
02:32bank account and she could work for herself. So yeah, say the community is 30 people.
02:39In total only five of those women would be handmaids. So there's only a select few of handmaids.
02:45Throughout the show you see June aka Offred's struggle into trying to become a free woman again
02:52which becoming free involves um immigrating to Canada. Pretty much the handmaidens no man is
02:59supposed to lust after them even if you are a commander or not. And if you do then you will be killed.
03:05And the handmaidens have an entire ceremony where they come and they circle you and they beat you to
03:12death. Oh their baby making situation is really crazy because the Martha sits on the bed and the
03:20handmaiden sits in between her legs and then the husband does his act with the handmaiden but it's
03:26simulating as if it's the Martha who he's doing it to. And then when they give birth the Martha is
03:33sitting in a chair the handmaiden is sitting in her legs like giving birth and the Martha is pushing
03:38and making these sounds as if she's giving birth also and yeah it's after and then after they give
03:47birth they're just like okay take her away like we don't want to see her anymore. The craziest part
03:52about all of it is that this government regime that was created this entirely super religious take the
04:01words from the bible verbatim was created by a woman. I have finished detangling my hair
04:07and now I will be using the curl cream and the Eco Styler gel um to kind of put some definition into
04:15it. Even though the show is really dark they try to end like every episode with a really upbeat song.
04:21It's like hey I'm gonna destroy you emotionally for the next 50 minutes and at the end I'm gonna make you
04:28feel really good about it. So overall I'd give Handmaid's Tale probably a I'd give it five stars.
04:36As a newcomer coming in who had never heard of Margaret Atwood before never heard of Handmaid's
04:41Tale before the show was incredibly captivating the entire color scheme that they used to film it was
04:47really awesome. Yes it was extremely dark and I was probably mildly depressed after watching a couple
04:54episodes um but overall I would binge it again. If you have watched Handmaid's Tale let us know in the
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