Wow, so much hate for something we GenX’ers grew up with through after-school and sick day reruns! I watched all the preview videos on the web site and am looking forward to this. It’s pretty much the only thing that would get me to watch HGTV.

The difference is that Rip’s departure felt necessary so that Sara could step up as captain.

Wouldn’t executing the handmaids go against the problem set up by having 52 kids removed? When a dozen handmaids died, they pulled radiation exposed handmaids from the colonies. I think the Marthas will in fact die, if they haven’t already (why did only handmaids find June? Is it a red on red honing system? I’m…

I hope next year, they cool it with the Elisabeth Moss staring into the camera shots.

Well, what do you think Rogers was going to do/say? Especially as the host of a children’s program in the late 1960s? It’s actually remarkable that he kept him on. In the mid-70s, my middle school fired an openly gay teacher because parents complained. Being gay was incredibly difficult during that time; Rogers’…

Yes.

I don’t see where you’ve also acknowledged that there was a production company and PBS making the show and therefore would have reacted strongly against an openly gay man working on a childrens show. There was probably a threat of cancelling the whole show, and perhaps that is why Fred Rogers reacted the way he did.…