- Scrubs season 6 episode 8 my road to nowhere movie#
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It will crush everyone in its path.īut beyond the political issues, there are some interesting family psychosexual dynamics to that scene.
They are not exceptions to Gilead’s power because Gilead has no true exceptions. When she has the ability to pick up a pen and use it, she begins to feel that she might be an exception to Gilead’s laws, that while other women might suffer, she will rise above it all - just as Serena always believed to be the case for herself.Īnd then the Commander takes off his belt, and you see all the sense of strength and power just leak out of June and Serena’s shoulders. When she takes charge of Janine, she pushes away Guards like she’s their superior, and she speaks to Aunt Lydia about Janine’s sanity as though they’re equals or even colleagues.
Why that scene between the Commander and Serena Joy is so powerful HuluĬonstance Grady : Part of what makes the Commander beating Serena Joy hit home so hard is that it comes after an episode in which June has tasted enough power that she’s beginning to hold herself as though she is an authority. But it’s also helped underline these shifts in power dynamics within the Waterford household, as the season unmistakably changes from one about the ways that women can perpetuate power imbalances with one another to one about just who created those power imbalances in the first place.
Scrubs season 6 episode 8 my road to nowhere movie#
Having almost the entire cast back in the same city has helped considerably with keeping the story of the various Handmaids going, as Janine argues with June about which Alien movie was better, or Emily threatens to burn it all down. What happens when he stands up is who he and his country really are, monsters who alter the psychological landscape of everyone around them based on whims. The man who is small in the frame is how the Commander sees himself and Gilead’s mission as a whole - humble and charged with saving the world through that humility. And then that changes abruptly, as he rises from the desk to loom over the frame and the others living in his household. Director Kari Skogland frames the Commander through much of the scene so that he’s very small, sitting behind his big desk but diminished physically and emotionally. Look at the scene where he beats Serena Joy as punishment, one of the bits of world-building this season that feels like an organic extension of Gilead’s religiously motivated misogyny, rather than an elaborate ritual cooked up in the writers’ room in a couple of spare minutes.
I do have other complaints about “Women’s Work” (particularly in regards to how the show raises the idea of Serena Joy and June working together and then doesn’t really bother to fill in what exactly they did - here’s hoping that comes up at a later date), but I found the second half of the episode somber and interesting in the way that Serena Joy and June, now with a kind of rapprochement between them, are confronted with the Commander back in their lives as a regular presence. Angela survives, yes, but she gets to live in a dark and horrible world.
Scrubs season 6 episode 8 my road to nowhere series#
But the series has gotten so much better at punctuating its darkness with brief glimmers of light while also not turning those brief glimmers into needless triumphalism. “Women’s Work” is a weaker episode, to my mind, one that flirts at all times with being miserable for the sake of being miserable, and it doesn’t help that the health crisis with Angela all but parachutes in from nowhere (though there have been hints here and there that something isn’t right with the child). If there’s a single reason I think that season two of The Handmaid’s Tale has been considerably better than season one (a minority opinion, I’m aware), it’s that the show has gotten so much better at balancing its moments of uplift with its many slow-motion tragedies. There she was! Baby Angela! Alive and well! And living as a woman in Gilead, so. By the end, when that actually happened, I was surprisingly relieved to see that conclusion arrive. Todd VanDerWerff: Around the midpoint of “Women’s Work,” I found myself thinking, boy, baby Angela better not survive just because Janine held it for a while. This week, critic at large Todd VanDerWerff and staff writer Constance Grady discuss “Women’s Work,” the eighth episode of the second season. Every week, a few members of the Vox Culture team gather to talk out the latest episode of The Handmaid’s Tale, Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel.
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