Hulu and Channel 4’s The Handmaid’s Tale is awash with chilling moments, but one that was added for the TV adaptation stood out as particularly affecting last night *spoilers ahead*. When Ofglen (Alexis Bledel) was carted away in a black van, it turned out not to be because of her Mayday connections but down to her rule-breaking affair with her female housekeeper
Told by a court that her very “existence is an abomination”, she was sentenced to “redemption” and later awoke in a hospital having been given what we are to assume was a clitoridectomy.
“The stitches will come out in a few days,” Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) tells her.
“You can still have children of course [fertility is valued in Gilead], but things will be so much easier for you now.”
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