5 The Handmaid's Tale Scenes That Should’ve Come With a Trigger Warning

The Handmaid's Tale is probably one of the darkest shows that has ever been on television. The very idea of a world (in our century) that treats women like sex slaves is simply unbelievable. But here we are, facing Gilead.

In the first episode of the series, we meet June Osborne, with the new name Offred, which she despises. The series tells us her story, as well as the stories of many other unfortunate women trapped in this horrible totalitarian society where human rights simply don't exist for them.

Throughout its five seasons, The Handmaid’s Tale offered many scenarios that really gave us chills and made us gasp in shock. Here are the worst of them.

1. The ceremony

When we first witnessed this so-called ceremony happening, right there in the first episode of season 1, we slowly started to understand what the show is going to be like. In other words, the “ceremony” is simply a legalized rape.

Although it’s put as the handmaids “job” and them “fulfilling their duty”, the scenes of Commanders and their wives raping these young girls are extremely hard to watch. And the fact that it’s sanctioned by the government just makes it more disgusting.

2. The chocolate scene

One of the creepiest scenes in the whole show involved the Putnams and Esther. She was a wife before, but unfortunately was caught by guardians and delivered to the Red Center and became a handmaid trainee. And Commander Putnam (former Janine’s Commander) decided to offer her a posting.

“We already knew Commander Putnam was a creep from Janine, but the way he was making airplane noises while forcing a literal child to eat out of his hand just screams “pedophile” in such a blatant, disgusting way. It’s bad enough that she was 15, but to be treating her like a toddler while obviously getting some sort of sick pleasure from it,” Redditor Kind_Dot_2591 said.

3. Washington, D.C. Handmaids

After seeing what Gilead’s handmaids were going through in the city where the main story takes place, it was impossible for fans to imagine that somewhere else is another world that treats their women even worse.

In season 3, June visited the capital of Gilead with Fred, Serena and some other people. And there she noticed that the handmaids wear mouth masks and are not allowed to speak.

Or so she thought. Little did she know that her roommate was ignoring her questions not because she was afraid to answer, but because she simply couldn't. Every handmaid there had rings in their mouths that made it physically impossible for them to speak.

4. Box of torture

Gilead has been trying to fool people into thinking that everything in this world is about children, and they are the first priority. Indeed, the whole idea of creating Gilead was initially to "save" fertile women. But the example of Hannah shows us what Gilead is really capable of.

We see her put in a glass box and shown to June in order to get her to agree to Gilead's demands. But the poor child has been so brainwashed by her caretakers that she either doesn't recognize or is afraid of her real mother when she sees her. And that's just heartbreaking.

5. Eden’s death

Eden is a teenage girl that Fred forced Nick to marry because he was jealous of June and Nick getting close. Well, it was obvious that their marriage was not going to work. So she fell in love with one of the guards, another teenage boy. And that pure and innocent love cost them their lives.

The punishment was brutal. The government made them kill themselves in front of a huge stadium-like place full of people. But what's even more horrible is the fact that all of this was made possible because Eden's own father turned her in when he found out she was in love with someone.