THE HANDMAID'S TALE
There's a lot to unpack in The Handmaid's Tale's third episode of Season 3, 'Useful'.
Once again, Commander Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) shines through as the show's most interesting new(ish) addition. I'm not quite sure what to think of him. At times, I like him. At times he seems like he's truly trying to do the right thing, like saving five women from going to the Colonies and certain death—and certainly by allowing June (Elisabeth Moss) to pick which ones to save.
At other times he's haughty and arrogant and misogynistic. I'm still puzzling over the scene in the library. All these powerful Commanders have come to Lawrence's house because he won't go to meetings anywhere else and he's that important and powerful. They're debating some kind of military action that would potentially harm civilians and Lawrence says the risk is too great—women and children can be valuable resources.
Then, as if to illustrate his point, he humiliates June in front of everyone, including Nick (Max Minghella) and Commander Waterford (Joseph Fienes) when he begins grilling her about her work before the rise of Gilead. He makes her find a copy of Darwin's The Descent Of Man and bring it to him. He has to tell her which book it is, too, because it's illegal for women to read. It's a weird show of power, and as she leaves the room he jokes, "See, women can be useful" to a round of chuckling from his fellow Commanders.
But why?
Is this all for show? Is he pretending to be as sexist and horrible as the men he works with to better protect his own betrayal of their cause? Or is this truly the way he feels? He never strikes me as a true believer in any of this Gilead zealotry; is he just at war with himself?
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