But there's perhaps nothing worse than when such evil comes from a trusted place, which is exactly what happened in the episode where Agnes MacKenzie (Chase Infiniti) visited the dentist earlier this season.
When Agnes later plucked up the courage to speak about the assault, it didn't seem like Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) was going to help. That's when Daisy (Lucy Halliday), who Agnes also confided in, decided to take matters into her own hands.
At the start of this week's episode, Daisy says "Gilead has a real hard-on for vengeance," but it's not only Gilead that's feeling vengeful these days.
When it's Daisy's turn to visit the dentist, she's surprised that everything goes smoothly. Dr. Grove doesn't do anything out of the ordinary, not like he did with Agnes. But this monster needs to be put down regardless, so Daisy suddenly starts panicking out of nowhere, running out of the office screaming with her shirt ripped open.
Unable to ignore this very public outburst, the Aunts question Daisy over what happened in the dentist's office. "I know sin when I see it," claims Pearl, and so does Lydia, it seems, because she chooses "not to think on it deeply," despite knowing that this one particular assault was likely fabricated.
Lydia plans to punish Dr Grove after his daughter's wedding so it won't ruin Becka's (Mattea Conforti) chances at matrimony. Such ties are everything in this world, after all. But that's not what ends up happening.
A fitting end for a monster like Grove, that much is true. Yet even so, Hulu's adaptation of The Testaments decides to speed up this timeline and punish him much sooner. But it's not Lydia who arranges this or Daisy for that matter either.
It seems that Grove never hurt his own daughter, not like he did in the book, but Becka is heartbroken anyway when she discovers what he did to Agnes.
Later, Becka asks her father for the truth at dinner. His reply? "I didn't lay a finger on that Pearl girl," referring, of course, to Daisy. And he's right. He didn't. But Becka knows her father and she can read between the lines about what really happened between him and Agnes.
View Green Video on the source website"He can't hurt you anymore," says Becka, who wreaked "divine justice" for her best friend. But not just her best friend, no. Because the love Becka holds for Agnes cuts so much deeper than just friendship. Becka is in love with Agnes, which is the real reason why she did what she did.
All Becka wants to do is protect the girl she's in love with, which makes what comes next even harder to stomach.
"I would do anything for you," says Becka, but it turns out the same is not true for Agnes.
"You need help, Becka," says Agnes. "I'm sorry. I had to tell them."
Agnes thinks she is helping Becka, but she doesn't fully understand what's about to come next.
View Green Video on the source website"Please don't let them take me!" screams Becka as Agnes watches on in horror.
Knowing Becka is in love with Agnes, it's hard not to read this scene as a stand-in for conversion therapy, the horrific practice where young queer people are whisked away to be "cured" of their sexuality.
Never mind that Becka was doing what Gilead should have done all along. Yet again, it's the young girls who are punished for the sins of their fathers, quite literally in this case. And therein lies the strength of this adaptation, which seeks to expand the source material through increasingly interesting, often harrowing means.
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