That’s her husband’s name. She took his last name upon marriage, but what is HER name? I mean, “Offred” is a name, too...

And here I thought it was Fyvush Finkel, which it couldn’t be since he’s deceased.

I don’t know whether to be sad that the sign-writer and cohorts got so little out of their schooling that they have to work at Sonic, or pleased that said members of the proletariat had the guts to refuse to be treated like dirt.

Somebody has low blood sugar and needs a snack.

It will be interesting to see whether the tone becomes more graphic and ugly, like the series. I hope not.

Angie Dickinson, telling it in flashbacks?

No, the heroine had “It” - i.e. sex appeal, coined by novelist Elinor Glyn. You’ve heard of “the It factor”?

When my first husband was terminal, if I called people, I would deliberately be all perky and “Hiya!” so they would know it wasn’t the dreaded call. Then when my second husband died unexpectedly, though he’d been ill, I used a sober tone: “This is Mom. Call me when you get a chance.” That way they could tell right…

Being serious for just a moment: if someone dies in the middle of the night, wait until morning to call people. Unless it is imperative that they see the body right away, they can’t do anything about it, so you should get some rest. That goes for notifying medical/hospice personnel if the person died at home, unless…

Philip Pullman is reason enough.

My thought exactly!

It was nice to look at, though, especially on the big screen.

Perhaps I have no taste - I was all but shrieking with laughter at Animal Behaviour... but it does go on a little too long.

They do, but it’s not like rolling off a log.

Thanks! I remember Joie Lee from “She’s Gotta Have It”. I really enjoyed her in this episode, too.

I was trying to read Ilana’s T-shirt in the last scene. It looked like “Gay slang was invented by White Women/Gay Men/Drag Queens/something else/ [each crossed out]/Black Women.”

I do think that the host should have been in at least one movie. Even Johnny Carson was in a movie once. No one seems to care about the movie connection anymore, though.

I wish they would go back to showing an actual scene from each nominated movie instead of a montage of clips that don’t show why this was considered a top-notch film to begin with.

Started out with Friday night’s “Ancient Aliens” epidosdes; saw “At Eternity’s Gate” (Willem Dafoe as Vincent Van Gogh - is that “pop” culture?); watched the Short Animation Oscar-nominated movies. In past years many of the nominees have been quite dark, as “animation” often does not equal “amusing cartoon”. There was…

I’ve never noticed any stink from them, and luckily I haven’t had a real infestation. However, they do pop up in unlikely places. Fortunately they are very slow and so I can catch them and toss them outside.