Not her dog, but a cute one nonetheless:

Those touches make me think of how words have so much power and whoever controls how they're defined can make of the world what they will.

The gags made me think of Hannibal, which made me realize that nothing in that show has scared me as much as this show.

I think that it's going to be the show that catapults the service to the upper echelon of content provider. I can't think of anything on any of them that has hit harder or left as big of an impression.

Given how much Christianity was used to justify enslavement, you're not wrong.

That was the scene that finally shattered me for the episode. Like so many other court scenes and yet so different.

It has happened to Christian women and really there's very little difference between the fundamentalists of any religion.

It's not great, although how many movie adaptations are?

Wow. That's such a laughable reaction to the book. The conservatives and fundamentalists not having any pull….

Just wow and also go you for not backing down.

You need look no further than Ferguson and Baltimore. And the fact that there are people in positions of power trying to saying that protest is unlawful.

Oh she'll still be a Handmaid because she's still fertile (they think). It'll just be even more painful and awful than it was before.

The amount conveyed without a word spoken between them…….

I hope not. I love Alex and Maggie. If they do something to split them apart, I will be very upset.

I don't think so. It's a complicated situation. You can feel pity for Serena Joy one moment and then loathe her the next.

For this episode I watched Speechless. For the second episode, I watched a couple of YouTube videos on the Facts. channel. I didn't get to anything with the first because of a time crunch.

The doctor in Michigan who did on two girls. And lest we think it just happens to non-white or Muslim girls, a story on the NPR page includes the story of a white midwestern Christian woman who'd undergone the procedure as a young girl.

Nope, Canada is still Canada.

She'd undergone female genital mutilation. She can still have children (albeit likely with complications), but they've removed any chance of her ever being able to have a sexual encounter that isn't painful.

I'd be curious if they'd try doing something like how racism is more overt in certain areas but kept under the rug by the rules of being a polite society. I don't know…just spitballing.