Commanders without wives are not issued handmaids!

But that’s not how they felt in the moment—instead, it felt like the show taking a breath to celebrate the power of its heroine.

The book was intentionally vague and limited in scope for exactly this reason. Offred really only saw a few buildings and greater Gilead was more of a suggestion. One would also assume the world was much worse shape than the show depicts, as in post ecological disaster and/or limited nuclear war.

now she just killed like, THE leader of Gilead? (I’m not exactly clear how far up the chain Chris Meloni was

ARRRRRR!

That was a chore to read. What a terrible writer, I hate when reviewers make reviews all about themselves.

At least 1/3 of these paragraphs makes little or no sense. But hey someone needs to get paid to...um...summarize bad TV shows I guess? Fuck 2019 is confusing. 

We spend ten minutes listening to June’s self-mutilation prose alternately mixing in bits of “Heaven Is A Place On Earth.” June is being punished. She sits on the floor so long she develops bruises on her knees. June tries to kill Ofmatthew. They actually left her alone with Ofmatthew? Really? Lydia calls her cruel,…

Nuns are people. They can be absolutely lovely -- like the nuns who babysat me and my cousin during our grandfather’s funeral, and gave us cookies and milk and let us watch Sesame Street; or they can be mean AF, like the grade school principal who I was terrified of and who once called me into her office for giving…

If one wanted to make a racial quibble with the show, it’s kind of unbelievable that a society so intolerant to women wouldn’t also be highly racist (we’ve seen some black commanders, for instance), but that’s a discussion for another time.

I mean, Aunt Lydia and June were BFFs just two episodes ago in DC. Now, of course, they’re bitter enemies again or something, whatever. The show really doesn’t give a shit outside of its YAAASSSSS QUEEN moments and moments of horrific violence that, silently, we’re supposed to be hoping happens to the villains of the…

I get tired of the endless praise heaped on the actors, particularly Moss and Strahovski. Either reviewers don’t know great performances, or they’re on the production’s payroll. Sometimes they do good work, but not all the time. As I’ve said before, Moss is best in scenes before the purge, but most of the time, she…

Yeah, honestly in a world where only a small percentage of women can get pregnant, these women should be treated like gods.

Yeah, the political angle is looking more and more as written by a 10-year-old.

The handmaids aren’t just oppressed, they’re treated like filthy garbage the society actively hates. Why should they be made suffer all kind of indignities and physical punishments (like, at the airport, they had to wait for their owners on their knees. Why?), when they are the key to those extremely coveted children,…

“Still, as with other episodes of this series, you can overlook a lot when the acting is this good.”

You...didn’t think maybe it was a little over the top? [Talking to the wall? Sobbing at it? Hugging it? And then FLASHBACKS of the daughter??? No?] I really do try to extract any value this show has from each episode,…

‘Moss uses that expressive-as-hell face...’

Also mysterious (read: inconsistent): why is Aunt Lydia so shocked by the silencing device? I’m sure she ripped tongues off with gusto. And yes, she does want all the handmaids to shut the hell up and do as they’re told! It’s the foundation of her approach to the job!

No, mouth padlocks were never a thing - much like chastity belts, which turn up in cheesy torture museums but were never actually used.

Yes this was the most boooring episode ever! And we could see that ending miles away! Of course the baby would come right there. And of course she won’t be able to run away not before and not now. I was hoping the baby would be dead so its less of a burden but no. I’m getting really bored of this “mother and child”…