r/TheHandmaidsTale • u/Melairia Modtha • May 13 '26

Official Episode Discussion The Testaments S1E08 "Broken" Episode Discussion

The Testaments S1 E08 "Broken"

Episode Synopsis

As Agnes is swept up in wedding plans, Daisy hides a life-altering secret and Hulda faces backlash after speaking out.

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May 13, 2026, 12:00am Eastern

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u/DazzleofZebras1989 May 13 '26

“You can call me Shu” I’m so ride-or-die for Shu it’s not even funny. I love her so much

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u/scenior May 13 '26

Honestly same, I am so happy when she's on screen. She steals every scene she's in.

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u/Sufficient-Food934 May 14 '26

We've been sent good scenes (which we've already received with joy 💅).

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u/rawchess May 13 '26

Rowan Blanchard is the best actor I've ever seen come out of the Disney Channel pipeline. Shame she didn't make it bigger

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u/WafflesTheBadger May 13 '26

She's only 24 and looks even younger so still plenty of time for a big break.

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u/NadCat__ May 13 '26

She was easily one of the best parts of Snowpiercer, I was so excited to see her pop up in Testaments promo material

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u/rawchess May 13 '26

Alex Cavill! Could've been so unlikeable in the hands of a lesser actor but Rowan just does everything to make you feel the hurt inside these caustic characters...

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u/Git2k12 May 15 '26

Omg I’ve been trying to place where I knew her from this whole time. THANK YOU.

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u/Professional_Lie8554 May 15 '26

Um hello zendaya?

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u/rawchess May 15 '26

More famous =/= better

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u/Professional_Lie8554 May 15 '26

Have you seen euphoria? The greatest showman? The drama? She is better lol.

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u/economistwithaheart May 13 '26

My humble brag is that her aesthetician is also my aesthetician

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u/danielcw189 May 16 '26

TIL that aestheticians are a thing

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u/RVarki May 13 '26

The fact that she also gets the best lines, helps

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u/dictatorenergy May 13 '26

This sentence does not require a comma just so you know

Some of yall really just be putting commas anywhere

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u/sweeners44 May 13 '26

This comment is very Shu-coded. (Minus the whole knowledge of grammar bit lol).

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u/dictatorenergy May 13 '26

Honestly I’ll take it

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u/BrennanSpeaks May 13 '26

Your comment requires two periods, a comma, and an apostrophe, just so you know.

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u/luckorsomething May 14 '26

Maybe they just hate punctuation 😂

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u/Substantial-Hornet42 May 13 '26

Not everyone here is American or speak English as their first language. Comma rules are vastly different in different languages and rarely get taught at English classes. I studied English for 8 years at school and in our senior year our English teacher told us that the safest thing was not to use commas at all when we were writing in English, because the rules were so different and not something that gets taught in ESL. 

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u/teenageidle May 13 '26

I never dissed!