I was rolling with it until last week, but this is the first episode I was really like, "okay, even I'm starting to check out, here…"

I'm with you, personally. She's reminded me of Nina all season.

Oddly, as technically good as it was, this was the episode where The Americans started to lose me a little. It was just so slow, even by the standards of this season. BCS's "Chicanery," OTOH, was a tour de force despite technically just being 45 minutes inside a courtroom.

I thought that was the best part about it. It's all true, and Jimmy did all of those things, but that's not what it's really about. Chuck exposed so much more than he intended to in so many ways, but not least of them was when he started snarling about how *precious Jimmy* couldn't *possibly.*

Nah, the difference is that Dan knew what he was doing and enjoyed doing it. Selina is just a thoughtless narcissist. I honestly don't think it even occurred to her to have salmon for Gary.

Special shout-out to the sound department, which has been doing "The Americans"-level work the past few episodes. In this week's cold open, you can hear something like distant windchimes as Hector stares into the pool: a faint but persistent "ding!" Beautiful.

One thing not mentioned that I wanted to give a shout-out to is the shot of Offred at the lunch table that's screenshot(ted?) above. Look how small and childish she looks, especially when Rita and Serena Joy come in and frame her on either side. I thought it was a phenomenal way of emphasizing the way she's minimized,…

I absolutely understand the desire to include the white supremacy, but I think there's one major problem with it: the second you do, the question inevitably becomes, "then why is this show about one of the white women?" And that would be a completely valid question — in fact, if the handmaidens are integrated, it's…

It was a slow burn in the book for me. I remember getting to "Ofwarren" (which takes a while in the book) before I caught on. I'm glad they played it as subtly in the show.

" And Serena Joy’s rage at Offred not being pregnant is frustrating because there is clearly a fertility problem with either SJ, the Commander, or both. "