Friday Night Lights, but no football.

You're right, he does. Lucky for us Max Minghella is handsomer than either of them. Fierce brow game, too. ;)

Please note: the image accompanying this Newswire is not an accurate reflection of The Handmaid's Tale as a viewing experience!

I wonder how many of the babies in those photographs were fathered by the doctor. I don't even know if that's better or worse than if they were fathered by the men in the photographs?!

Yikes! The murder and cover-up was really good drama, and I totally bought it all. I could even see both sides of the "Should we let Lord Fopfuck bleed to death" debate. He was a member of the aristocracy, Lucy is a harlot, the rape of a harlot probably doesn't exist under the laws of those times. I also believe that…

Oh, I agree. I struggle with all of them, to be honest. They're all trapped in their roles. If you were in Nick's shoes, what more would you do? All he can do is talk to June and offer her his sympathy which she rightly throws back in his face.

That was relentlessly depressing. I don't think I'm up for a second season of nightmare scenarios. There's a reason I didn't watch the second season of The Knick.

I was willing Moira to get on that train! I expected them both to get captured.

Might be worth a try.

Why do the commander's rape their Handmaids but they were encouraged to beat that rapist to death at the end of the pilot?

This aspect of the female lead is what put me right off that NBC show "Blindspot". Just like Jason Bourne she wakes up with no memories but a collection of amazing skills. So far so fun, right? Unlike Jason Bourne, no memories somehow translates as a wide-eyed, childlike person with the temperament of a shaky kitten,…

Strong episode. Two choices that were super effective: the decision to shoot the hanging from Emily's perspective in the van; and the way Emily wakes up to discover that she is post-op at the same time as the viewers. That second one was nightmare-like. Also the gag, reminiscent of a scold's bridle, that she wore…

Agreed. Women have had to fight so hard to get access to contraception and abortion as it is. There is always an element of society that would like to exert more control over that access in an attempt to act as the sexual morality police.

Yeah, the treatment of the handmaids in Waterford's home and in the home where Janine lives reminded me so much of the way the slaves are treated in Underground.

At first I thought this episode wasn't as good as the pilot, because it's slower and less action-packed. But it was very powerful. The focus on fertility, giving birth, motherhood, losing children, and the maternal drive was fantastic, because it is some primal territory. And they are hitting it hard here. The only…

Nice! That first one is my favourite - so fucked-up!

God, there are so few comments for such a good show.

That reminds me a little of Deborah Tannen's old NYT piece, "Marked Women, Unmarked Men".

Haha! Well, if Oscar Wilde was going to come back for something, I'd choose "the news that the people of Ireland voted to legalise gay marriage" over you know, a massive following on Twitter.

It cracks me up that Margaret Atwood is on Instagram!