And somehow you left out the best Darlene line from this episode. “I don’t like you very much.”

Agree, Mac Quayle has been doing a superb job since the series started but this was a standout episode music-wise. As well as what you mentioned, the industrial ambient techno as Elliot rummages through the building looking for a terminal was masterfully panic-inducing... and of course the crescendos.

On a show that specializes in gut-punches, that ending was the bleakest and hardest one yet. The music is always great in this show, but today it deserves special mention. The score in the beginning when Angela is talking to her mother is beautiful.

salacious cunt is a fantastic word combo.

I think the reviewer is referring more to the lack of rights for women at that time, which was a fact of life. Whereas in The Handmaid’s Tale, it’s a speculative future.

Admittedly, as a Canadian, I’m contractually obligated to worship Margaret Atwood, but I would say that Alias Grace is one of her very best novels. In my humble opinion she writes either classics or throwaways and AG is firmly in the former category. This, Handmaid’s Tale, Surfacing and Blind Assassin are her best,…

MF’in Atwood. She’s been maybe my favorite fiction writer for years, so seeing adaptations of her work do her justice just warms my heart. Now maybe HBO will reconsider passing on an Oryx and Crake (maybe her most challenging and most ambitious story) adaptation...