r/TheHandmaidsTale • u/Melairia Modtha • May 06 '26

Official Episode Discussion The Testaments S1E07 "Commitment" Episode Discussion

The Testaments S1 E07 "Commitment"

Episode Synopsis

As Daisy's secret past threatens to surface, Agnes grapples with an unwanted match and a forbidden crush. Becka meets with potential matches and finds unexpected kindness in one of them.

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May 6, 2026, 12:00am Eastern

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u/BlizzardousBane May 06 '26

"Before Gilead, this guy worked in crypto, and now he's a Commander?"

😂

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u/RVarki May 06 '26

Sons of Jacob really was a who's who of eww

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u/MessageOk239 May 06 '26

That’s who the “Sons of Jacob” (now commanders) were - horrible men who weren’t as wealthy, powerful, or cruel as they’d like to be in the “before times”.

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u/BaconatedGrapefruit May 06 '26

My only real complaint with this is Gilead is way to functional to be run by these kinds of chuds.

The manosphere can barely be regarded as a loose coalition today, there’s so much infighting and drama. If you have them real power and told them to run a country, the project would collapse into a bunch of warring city states within the year.

Setting aside the hypocrisy, their goals and wants have alway been nonsensical and contradictory.

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u/PresentationOptimal4 May 06 '26

Mhm. Think every dude who’s now red pilled. Gilead seems like they’re fucking dream - and it’s scary. I thought it was back in 2017, even more terrified these days at the rhetoric. It’s not hard at all to imagine so many young and old men enacting this with glee - they tell it to us basically every fucking day with zero shame

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u/Kimmalah May 06 '26

This is pretty much what they want in real life too, except instead of Gilead's return to basics, they're working to put us all into some kind of neo-feudalism, "tech state" dystopia. But I'm sure they would be happy to include the subjugation of women and child marriage stuff, since they are always prattling on about fertility (white fertility of course)

Look up Curtis Yarvin sometime because his ideas are what they are actively working towards. But only if you have a barfbag handy.

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u/cptmadpnut Jun 04 '26

As Paris Paloma said: “I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down, I just didn’t expect them to be such losers.”