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Eyes On Gilead: A Handmaid's Tale Podcast

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The Handmaid's Tale, Tv & Film, Podcast, Podcasts, Tv Shows, After Shows, Sbs

4.7 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We discuss episode 4 of The Handmaid’s Tale and reflect on Aunt Lydia’s skills shaming runaway June into becoming dutiful Offred once more. We contemplate the bizarre rituals of Gilead designed to break down and subjugate women, and desperately search for some light in this grim development for our heroine.

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0:00.0	Well, isn't this a happy day?
0:13.0	Welcome home, my friend.
0:15.0	You don't own me, I know your property, so take a shifting little bitty eyes over me. If you're a very, very good girl, you might even be invited to stay.
0:28.6	Welcome to Eyes on Gilead, our weekly podcast dedicated to The Handmaid's Tale.
0:33.5	There is a lot going on in this show, and we think it helps to talk it out after every episode drops on SBS and at SBS on demand.
0:40.2	And we hope you agree.
0:41.3	I'm Fiona Williams, and I manage our online coverage of movies and TV here at SBS.
0:45.8	And I'm joined by my colleagues and fellow resistors, Sana Khadar and Natalie Handley.
0:50.6	Sana Khadar?
0:51.4	Hi.
0:51.8	Hi.
0:52.8	Sana is a journalist here at SBS, working on small business secrets.
0:57.0	Sana, what was your high point this episode?
0:59.5	I don't know if it was a particular point so much as basically I thought Aunt Lydia was at her deranged best in this episode.
1:07.4	She was utterly insane and relentless.
1:10.6	That was my takeaway point.
1:12.4	All right, we will put a pin in that and come back to that.
1:14.7	And Natalie Hanbley, managing editor of X-S-Life.
1:17.2	Hello.
1:17.9	What was your highlight this episode?
1:19.8	I don't really have a highlight more than a low light.
1:23.0	And it was a really strange scene, again, with Aunt Lydia, but it was a bath scene.
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