I thought the Econowives were blue/green/red ?

There is a certain level of "blindingly obvious" at which any remaining ignorance can be considered willful, i.e. if it's that obvious something doesn't work but people do it anyway then it is an inevitable conclusion that they don't care if it works - or they care about something else more.

Interesting, I do see the wives as blue (though not as blue as I imagined in the book, which was more pale blue) but it didn't even occur to me that the Marthas weren't wearing plain grey. I was wondering why they changed their color from green…

All I can think of is the SNL Scarlett Johannson Ivanka Trump ad parody.

I would think it's obvious in the whole Handmaid system, which is completely sub-optimal for having children. Artificial insemination, heck even having intercourse more than *once a month* would work better.

Weeeelll I suppose one argument one could make is that the infertility crisis is an environmental one related to pollution (it's the argument made by the very founders of Gilead but I wouldn't trust them on something like this), and if that's the case it could well be variable from country to country; and poorer…

Absolutely agreed. Also, it's absolutely clear Serena Joy does want a child, very badly: look at how she treated Offred when she thought she was pregnant. I think she absolutely would do something like this just to have a child, no other motivation necessary.

There's Rita, and the girl in the first episode who tells Offred not to let a Martha take the credit for getting oranges, for two.

But that's ignoring that the men are sterile. Yes, I know Gilead overtly ignores that the men can be sterile, but I think that goes basically as far as maintaining the higher status of men and subjugating women and following their ideology goes… I mean, we've already seen two people acknowledge the fact when it was…

Well, Waterford is pretty high up isn't he? Name's on the news.

The things the Commander says about love makes me wonder what their marriage was like before Gilead. We know there is no love now, although I don't know if she knows it (for some reason I think not, and that she'd be crushed if she heard this conversation (if only because that's the only true power a woman can have in…

One thing I disliked about the book was the undercurrent of "young girls these days with their daring to enjoy a better world than we had - THEY'LL SEE, AND OH THEY WILL BE SORRY" [aka Feminism Wave Wars]. I haven't gotten that vibe from the show at all, and I think that's almost all down to that character's exclusion…

It's a good point that we haven't seen any other handmaid with a missing eye.

It certainly makes one wonder about Jeanine hoping her child wouldn't look like her father doesn't it?

Are they? They're women so in that sense yes, but Moira seemed pretty confident in her power as an Aunt when escaping. Didn't she say something like "they'll be too scared to deny me, I'm an Aunt". Or was that a case of projecting their own fear onto other people?

I just can't help feeling really good about that. Part of me can empathize with her frustration, and part of me imagines the "ideal outcome" is for her to realize how terrible this is and join the revolution, but mostly I just want her to keep suffering in the hell she created forever, not allowing herself even the…

I don't think that is different from the book though; isn't it Word of God (i.e. Margaret Atwood, not the TV showrunners) that Serena Joy was based on Phyllis Schlafly, i.e. a woman drawing her power from claiming all of women's powerlessness? I seem to recall her past being actually described in those terms at some…

Oh there was an announcement? I gleaned that this must have happened from various things they said but I must have missed the announcement, and I couldn't find any info on Google (I now understand the valuable service the tabloid press offers people. j/k, good on them for keeping their privacy). You wouldn't happen to…

I think it's the first time I noticed that Finn has the "some will lose" line in "Just stop believing".

Wow, I've been… kinda liking Will Schuster lately ? His "Suzy Q"-ing Sue, and most of all his "haha don't even THINK that you can out-Europe me Sue. I saw them play live at the Franklin County Fair 1993".