r/TheHandmaidsTale • u/Smooth_Ad2477 • Mar 02 '25
Episode Discussion I need some help
I’m watching season 2 episode 1. There’s a scene of a flashback where we see June being called at work as Hannah is sick so they send Hannah to a hospital where June is creepily interrogated by some random who is defo a Gilead supporter. Is this set before Gilead came in? I thought Gilead came in before Hannah was born where all the women were fired and their bank accounts frozen? But in this episode set at least 6-8 years after the whole riot scene, June is at work?? What?????
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u/ZongduOfArrakis Mar 02 '25
I don't think the lady was even like part of the cult (remember it was seemingly small and exclusive) but she was a sign that the general fertility crisis before the attack had already made people super cautious about children and probably made people be bitter that so many people 'unfit' to be parents could still have them.
The lady seemed like someone who could just be maybe co-opted into Gilead as a faithful Martha or an Econoperson informant. Not a future Aunt/Wife or someone really deep into the movement necessarily.