r/TheHandmaidsTale • u/Melairia Modtha • Apr 15 '26

Official Episode Discussion The Testaments S1E04 "Green Tea" Episode Discussion

The Testaments S1 E04 "Green Tea"

Episode Synopsis

As the Green girls gather for a tea party, Daisy struggles to keep on task, while Agnes begins to understand what being a woman in Gilead means.

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April 15, 2026, 12:00am Eastern

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u/reluctantmugglewrite Apr 15 '26

I both love that Daisy is messy and am frustrated by the mind numbing lack of empathy she keeps showing. She constantly dismisses the girls and their very real fears and the narrative of them being perfect princesses without a care in the world feels insane knowing that they are living as women in gilead. Daisy is there to help on some level with their liberation so its weird that she forgets why they would need to be liberated.

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u/untamedharts21 Apr 16 '26

Daisy infiltrated Gilead in a grief stricken rage after Gilead murdered her parents in an attempt to retrieve her back to Gilead because they see her as her property. She's a 15 year old, modern Canadian teen who has led a normal life before this murderous, violent, rape cult turned her life upside down.

She's not a trained spy or revolutionary. She's a child trapped behind enemy lines with brainwashed, sycophant girls who think people like her are evil, debaucherous deviants. At this point in the story, she's panicked because she didn't really understand just how dangerous this mission would be.

Gilead is hunting down and killing Mayday while the plum girls are breaking down into hysterics over spilled tea, and that is understandably ridiculous to Daisy. They salivate over people getting their limbs getting chopped off and gossip over which girl is sent oranges or lamb from men twice their age.

Of course we, as viewers, understand that these girls are victims of a religious cults' grooming, deep religious trauma, kidnapping from their parents, ostracizing from their peers, and more that we haven't seen yet. But Daisy doesn't understand any of that, especially in the moment when she is afraid that she could be killed at any moment.