I hope he learns from this and sends away Littlefinger, who is the mostly likely shit stirrer at Winterfell rn

Yeah, that would be the small council thing that Davos should be encouraging, seeing as he's the only one in the room who has advised someone at that level of leadership before

yes, he has said so explicitly. the WW = global warming analogy. Everyone is like, "omg taxes" when we are facing an existential threat to our species and no one can get their shit together. :(

I kind of wonder if Sansa is going to fulfill some of the Lady Stoneheart role this season, so we can get Brienne and Jamie back together.

It was worse that I knew who he was, and they kept cutting to him, despite him being the worst actor in the scene. felt so gratuituous and like a betrayal, tbh

I remembered that conversation especially during the meeting with Euron. I understand the need for military alliances making Cersei attractive to Euron, but everyone south of Winterfell is still basically acting as if their little wars will end and then they'll resume their regularly scheduled high-born lives… With…

I also think the Many-Faced God would be totes cool with Arya having made her list of people who should die, and then carrying it out. She has been basically worshiping the God of Death since she started "praying" her death-list each night. She's just cutting out the middle-men.

Can someone tell me if I'm missing something about the Neolution plan as we know it: To figure out the way gene Lin28 works, exploit it's ability to extend human life, and deliver it to people via dermological means? I understand the "means" are awful, what with the harvesting eggs from Kira and human coning etc…. but…

But S said earlier that Perkins was going to the facility to meet with Ripley. That just doesn't make any sense.

Straw that broke the camel's suspension of disbelief: Why would the psych researcher have ever heard about "Alex Ribley" or whoever, if she was being held by Susan or Rachel in secret? Why would she be studying trauma in someone who is so drugged up she can't talk?

The show definitely set us up to expect she would be in that grave at the end.

Looks like a film, not a show, unfortch. I would totally watch this as a show which I have already decided deserves 6 seasons and a movie.

Yes, I thought this was so tragic.

You are, in essence, saying that some women aren't pretty enough to be raped. Nothing about Gilead is predicated on women's actual looks. It's about power, control, and domination.

That was the part of the entire episode that struck me as the most heavy handed and poorly written. It was incredibly out of character, and it seemed to only serve the purpose of creating the shot with June walking alone at the head of the handmaids.

Well, I think there was some importance there about the gender disparities. Emily underwent FGM because her sexuality was problematic. But a man, well, he loses a hand.

She sort of does a "Happy Birthday MR President" with him. I think it's remarkable to remember she can get away with that because she never speaks to him if they aren't alone. He has no way of knowing that its an act, and no one else (except Nick) ever hears the act.

I gotta say, I totally believed her that he was telling her those things, but I also totally knew that those things would never happen. The issue for me, and maybe I'm projecting but I think June was with me, wasn't that I thought Janine was lying, but that I knew she was naive to believe it.

I'm a spoiler-holic, and read about the end of S4 before watching it, so I saw it coming the whole time and the whole time, it was like a special song played in my head when she was there. :'(

I agree, his face when she called him out was priceless and so worth it. She might be a lot of things (traumatized AF, naive and depressed, to start with), but Janine is not lying.