It's so great! I especially love how he was just drawn to her from the beginning—he saw the warmth and the sparkle, and just knew she couldn't be a heel.

I was stone cold sober and it was PERFECT.

Same.

Reusing the time jump felt cheap and unearned: it has diminishing returns, especially since it came up twice this season, and very little felt substantive.

Hell, if the last few years have taught us anything.

My best friend just got me Willam's book for a birthday present, and it is HILARIOUS: she is just outright mean, and it's so funny.

Yeah, being depressed—even severely depressed—doesn't make it okay for you to be a dick to people, and she was pretty fucking awful to Shea.

Oh, God. I hate to think about them testing the girls for their fertility when they're older, and whether they'll be sorted into Handmaids or Marthas.

It does make me wonder what happens to a wife whose husband gets caught up in a purge—is she passed along to a single man? Does she become a Martha, or an Aunt?

Could this be how Agent Pepper gets his commendation?

Not at all! I definitely found myself going "Now….KISS!" at my screen. It would be so perfect!

I think he was murdered by the ghosts of the dead Ukrainian Jewish people, or else was driven mad by it.

Nikki Swango is incredible. And I have to say, Winnie Lopez won my heart this episode. Her warmth and compassion with Gloria was so good!

Aidan Turner wielding a scythe is everything.

I would love to see her Coming to America tale. I feel like it would be so interesting.

Ooh, interesting point! I would have loved to hear young Essie speaking Gaelic. I suppose it's possible, though, working for a wealthy family, she might have had to learn at least some English, especially if the son of the house is going to Oxford.

Gods and their worshippers are inherently intertwined—quite deeply—and this episode did such a beautiful job of illustrating that point.

Which means I'll be collected by Henry David Thoreau and a coffee pot.

Hardly. I just went into the kitchen to see why there were all these onions, suddenly! I loved her: an irascible, unrepentant bitch who did her best.

Nothing here is vegetarian.