This is a mystery! IMDB says it's a different Jim Cummings: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm…

Absolutely right about Ferguson and Baltimore. And this time of year — when college kids are wrapping up their semesters — I think about the Kent State massacre as well (and the Jackson State massacre). I grew up in Ohio, and we learned about Kent State repeatedly. The part that haunts me the most is how we were…

A woman named Renee Bergstrom went public last year — she grew up in a fundamentalist Christian group in Minnesota and experienced FGM as a three-year-old. It was a punishment for masturbating.

No problem! It's kind of tough to nail all of the world-building stuff down in the book, too, because you're just following a character who's not involved in the bureaucracy/politics. It's not like Man in the High Castle, where you get a really clear understanding of the alternate universe. And by episode 3, the show…

Anchorage is the capital of the United States (and there are only two states), but this show doesn't take place in the United States — it takes place in the Republic of Gilead, whose leaders staged a coup in the U.S. The book is set in Cambridge, MA , and I'm assuming the same is true of the show (particularly…

I really got a red pill vibe from the questioner in the scene with Aunt Lydia. Something about his voice? He sounded like Comic Book Guy to me. I hope we can all learn something from him about how Redditors are the true heroes of Gilead.

That's not really relevant for this world, though — gay men aren't kept around for procreation at all (we've already seen at least one hanged at the wall). I'm just saying for a generic speculative fiction show — you'd absolutely know that a man had been castrated by the visual clues we were getting (there was even a…

I think… yes, this was your male point of view. If a gay male character woke up in a sterile place, and you knew he was being punished for his sexuality, and he was in pain and found bandages on his crotch, wouldn't you immediately know what had happened?

We watched a Parks too. The one where they go to London, and Leslie plans the trip to Lagavulin for Ron. A small reminder that men and women can respect and value each other?

I'll buy that for recaps. Thanks for the response.

I'm assuming that Emily's going to get re-assigned, though. I think Allison's also been referring to Janine by name. I don't know, this is such a minor thing (and they're fictional characters!), but in discussing this with friends, I've been really trying to refer to June as June. Somehow, I can think of the book's…

Curious: why will you be calling Emily "Emily," but June "Offred?"

Although it's actually a more recent cover of that traditional tune- the one they used tonight is Bon Iver and the Chieftains, and it came out in 2012. It's a beautiful version, and that whole album is fantastic.