Handmaid's Tale's darkness continues to disturb viewers

From Digital Spy

Warning: this post contains spoilers for season two, episode two of The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale returned to Channel 4 for the second episode of season two tonight (May 27) as the show brought more death to our screens, and it's safe to say that viewers were just as terrified as as they were last week when the second season began.

Episode two, titled 'Unwomen,' revealed that June (Elisabeth Moss) has been transported another of Nick's (Max Minghella) safe places, this time the former headquarters of The Boston Globe where she's told she needs to stay for a number of weeks until the heat dies down before some NSFW scenes unfolded.

And it's safe to say that those sex scenes most definitely captured fans attention and got a few pretty hot under the collar (the below tweets contain some NSFW language):

Elsewhere in the episode, now known as the Unwomen, Emily (Alexis Bledel) and her fellow handmaids were taken to the colonies and forced into hard labour.

While there, Emily gives a Commander's wife Mrs. O'Conner antibiotics that actually turned out to be poison, killing her as Emily blamed her for letting her husband rape so many handmaids.

Overall, things are still very dark, which had fans reaching for the cushions: