I haven’t seen this episode yet, but this nonsense about humanizing the absolutely vile pieces of shit like Serena Joy or Aunt Lydia was happening even in season 2. This is the most baffling part of the show nowadays made entirely of baffling parts.

I know it’s nitpicking, but why would anyone allow a pregnant handmaid pull that rope or participate in a very emotionally distressing activity such as public hanging? What did the hanged handmaiden do that moved their punishment from being sent to the colonies or something like that straight to public hanging? I can…

On this episode we moved past her face closeups and into her eyes closeups.

I think Hanna was born before Gilead, before even the assassinations that started the coup. The process of USA becoming Gilead was also somewhat gradual - I mean, it did start with assassinations, but didn’t go straight to public hangings and rape ceremonies. Hanna is about 7 or 8 this season, right, which means…

When the camera turns after the June/Serena shouting match, and we see hundreds of Handmaids, guards and Fred, I laughed. This is the “jump the shark” moment of this show. This moment is something comedies do as a joke punchline, not something that has to be on a show pretending to be super-dramatic and serious.

Haha, OK :)

Are you refering to something specific in the New Testament? I'm not hugely familiar with it.

I was sure Gilead’s operatives would kidnap Luke when he was listening to June’s tape, which begs the question of whether Gilead even has a spy network in Canada. I assume some former CIA people are left in Gilead, and building a spy network would be beneficial to Gilead’s fight against the resistance. It would be…

You’ll die of alcohol poisoning within 10 minutes. The amount of June’s closeups seems to grow exponentially. Soon, this entire show will be nothing but the closeups.

This is another show that suffers from The Walking Dead syndrome - having way too many episodes for the amount of story they have. That’s why there’s all the stalling.

If that’s what you took from the show, then you did not understand the point it was trying to make.

He passed away in 2008, it is mentioned in Midnight In Chernobyl book. Radiation-related illness, leukemia IIRC. Basically, he survived because he was a big healthy guy before the explosion.

Yeah, it’s real fun to visit the area where it is not safe to live (and won’t be for hundreds of years), you have to walk on carefully chosen paths and limit your visit to few hours because that place is still contaminated.

If it had russian accents, it would've been a comedy for entire different reasons. Maybe it's just me, but I prefer no accent at all to bad accent.

Russian is my first language and I thank the showrunner for deciding not to bother with accents. Russian accents get comical VERY fast. Same about The Death Of Stalin.

The music is a pretty bad EBM, but this shit is so bizarre I too want them to win.

Pre-empted by the death of Kim Kardashian of some other reality star, for maximum fit.

Their last exchange killed me:
- Like what, Will?

3 state solution - Israel, Palestinian state in the West Bank and another Palestinian state in Gaza? It might actually work ...

If you mean what I think you mean, then yeah ...