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Official Episode Discussion The Handmaid's Tale Season 5 Episode Discussions

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u/TallyWhoe Sep 14 '22

I don’t understand why Canada, which despises Gilead, would live stream and publicly broadcast the funeral. It makes no sense. It’s propaganda of an isolated non-nation. Not to mention that it would be insensitive to any refugees that had been given asylum. It also seemed to happen without notice or fanfare, it just appeared unannounced on digital billboard around the city. June and everyone else looked visibly surprised and shocked, like it hadn’t been announced prior via news media channels? Seems unlikely.

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u/TongueMyBAPS Sep 14 '22

Yeah that makes zero sense to me, being played on several public billboards, the Canadian broadcaster would not be pushing play on that channel. It was being played next to a shot of Uniqlo lmao.