Waterford's goal for every episode is to take his creep factor from the episode before and double it.

Yeah, I doubt it as the seed of the whole book centers around the Bible story of Jacob and Rachael and Rachael's handmaid. Jacob and Rachael probably could have adopted children too, but they, like the ruling class of Gilead, wanted to extend the male family line.

I don't mind seeing Luke's side of it, but the tonal dissonance of this episode with the rest of the series was weird. It felt like it had been made by different people. Possibly nicked from some other dystopian show.

I was very displeased by Rizzio threatening to out Lord Ruthven; not only is it a beat that makes no sense for the character, it's idiotic to threaten to blackmail someone who can threaten you with the SAME BLACKMAIL (as Lord Ruthven does, all of two seconds later). Plus Rizzio is (unintentionally) undermining Mary by…

I didn't think about this much while I was watching because the scene is stunningly acted, but in hindsight I am annoyed by the immense shift that the Mexican ambassador brings to the story when she tells June about the dire infertility of her home city. While infertility is a problem in the book and the show, June's…

In the book, the fertility crisis is real, but it is never presented as severely as the Mexican ambassador says it is in the show. Ironically, it's the Commanders who are known to have fertility problems. Serena Joy states this outright in the book, in the show she kind of dodges saying it but still sets up Offred…

I feel like we need some sort of explanation for why Henry is a couple years younger but looks a couple years older than Charles. An offhand remark from Megan Follows about how Charles was a sickly child and she always wondered if he would grow up to be a vampire would suffice. Also stop talking to Henry, Narcisse,…

Yes! And now that you mention in, I'm dying to see Winston's bookshelf.

I love how terrible those Bitch Witch cover posters are.

Well, I can never get my friends to do Sunday night booze, so your friends are probably just more fun :) I do see how the show would be a lot more entertaining if you were playing shot games along with it.

Somehow I think we would just more terrible speeches from Charles, but I am down with pretty much ANYTHING that would give Megan Follows more screen time.

I guess the idea is that there is some political significance to this, but really, awards shows are just slow and boring. I can see all the clothes on OMGthatDress, I can find out all the wins right here on A.V.Club, and I can catch the highlights on YouTube, so why do I need to sit through three hours of ads and…

I did too! Because whatever else is going on, the kid looks incredibly ill.

Yeah they will spend all of five minutes on it before Catherine decides to hire a hypnotist or something to snap him out of it, and there will be bizarre side effects to that, but by then they'll have already moved on to the next plot anyway.

Oh agreed, I don't want Michael to stop being evil. That's too easy. But I don't read his "kind" persona as entirely a facade. When we see him in the board room with the other demons, he is the same mild-mannered person with an incredible enthusiasm for his work. Yes, he was faking having Elinor's best interests at…

All good points. Not to mention interesting that on the show they too have that nuclear band of four (+ Janet). Can't wait for them to find each other again!

Here's hoping Charles hasn't gone full Joffrey, because (among other things) I don't think the script writers can pull it off.

So is Big Little Lies a sequel to The Husband's Secret? I really liked Moriarty's What Alice Forgot, but I haven't read her other books yet.

Delighted that there's going to be another season, but within the logic of the show I'm surprised that Michael's boss signed off on him rebooting the fake Good Place for another round. The premise for Michael's experiment was that this was a way to get humans to torture each other, but as both Michael and Elinor…

How are they going to resolve something like Robby not seeing a fault in Jess? Robby doesn't see faults in anybody. They might have said it's a 'thing' he does in the episode, but it's not a thing — it's his personality.