Serena Would be a Terrible Mother

hannibals-cheekbones:

Serena is desperate for a child, and the flashbacks make it obvious she has been trying to be a mother for years, but WANTING a child is different from having one. She can’t handle things not going her way, she becomes cruel and unforgiving when someone disappoints her, she lashes out at anyone within reach when she’s upset, she could never handle a two year old telling her “no.” Just because she’s judgmental about the way another wife raises her baby doesn’t mean she will be any better at it, when a 4 year old doesn’t want to go to bed she will lose her shit. Also, she despises June, when that baby grows up and looks like the woman she hates (and has Nick’s eyebrows) she will be so cruel and terrible to her. Remember when she threatened Hanna?

altho i will say that i do find it a little uh… hmm that many in the tht tag are like well i was starting to feel sorry for serena and NOW i hate her again like…

i’m aware she’s had some more sympathetic scenes this season, however:

this is certainly not the first time she’s held june (and, before that, the handmaid that it’s heavily implied killed herself– the one that left the message that june found) down while her husband assaulted her. it’s just the first time she’s done so when june is pregnant.