I understand where you're coming from, but the Bush admin isn't comparable. There wasn't a coup, there was rule of law, and democracy was still in action.

Second that - it's a REALLY strange combo of JtV (which I felt with the last couple of episodes), Gossip Girl (which I get with the woman who's the radio host), Mean Girls, and Greek (forgot that show, loved it, what happened to it?!).

Yeah, Yo-Yo Ma.

22 is too much for most shows. I think shows like TGW, Homeland, every Shondaland drama suffer for having 22-24. The plot lags, the writing is off, and they sometimes struggle with their characters in a few of the episodes.

I genuinely don't care about the title - I'm not mad. In fact, it's why I watched it despite not knowing anything about it. Also, some of us POC do literally just say "White people" or "hey, white people, please stop…" to each other. I don't think it should censor itself when it's a piss take at people who are…

This is how it comes across: Serena and the other wives are the Ivanka to the Commanders' Trump. It may be ruled by men, but they're absolutely complicit and probably had a hand in helping them gain power (I'm guessing).

It comes across like Chicago is a western front, not within Gilead.

She was mediocre in Mad Men and Jenny's Wedding, and especially terrible in Sisterhood of Travelling Pants and Tuck Everlasting (it's a really good book but boy did the acting kill and everything kill it)…

You don't need an exit visa, which is what you're describing when you say it's what the 'government gives you to flee after a theocratic coup', to move to another country. Idk why that needs spelling out.

Same. It doesn't work. People on this thread are putting spoiler tags on about whether or not it's obvious that handmaids aren't allowed to read (even though it is), but there's nothing to explain or give context to the setting to make it remotely believable. Especially given that the creators & screenwriters of THT…

That's an exit visa… 🙄

Exactly, the idea that people didn't resist or that it was a tiny minority is ludicrous. As I wrote below about the stupid 'why didn't Jews leave Nazi Germany' retort, some of which applies to Stalin/Pol Pot:

They did. There were mass exoduses before & after. The Nazi regime wasn't originally totalitarian or militaristic and there was still a political process in play. They didn't initially topple a government by force, but legal means as bent as it was. That's a key difference between Gilead as portrayed on TV vs the…

Because you still have something called a check on executive power and the rule of law. DT isn't comparable

That's my point. Clearly there's enough information being dissipated to warrant some to move in the four years that the TV show has conveyed thus far and that it's based on the modern Information Age just doesn't work. I'm not saying the book doesn't - I'm just saying that how it translates on the TV show doesn't.

No shit, Sherlock. It's called a bloody visa.

No, but feel free to treat yourself to one for your patronising clapback.

It certainly doesn't come across as being the whole country. More like the east coast max if using current US geograpy as a footprint.

That's such an asinine response. Try harder or learn history.

There were a lot of comments on Twitter about the racism aspect, but particularly how it came across as White feminism.