I feel like she went back to fight the system not to get her daughter (I mean of course she would like that aswell but for me it was more of a "fuck that we gonna blow this shit up" kind of thing

There actually was brief mention of Odette early on in season 1, when Moira & June stopped for coffee (or at least attempted to) after they finished a run... June jokes with moira about how Odette is gunna kick her out if she doesn’t stick with it

Ps hooray, my first AV posting!

I think he’s under the impression that Offred likes him... so in his mind he’s not pulling a rape 2.0, but giving into his desires, and giving her what she wants.

There is a reason the episode is called First blood. It’s the true start of a war. Mayday has refused to help handmaids. Ofglen, initially mildly grateful as a handmaid because she was once destitute, refused to murder her friend and got her tongue cut out. Then seeing Offred with child, knowing the child is being…

That and she’s annoyed that the other women, the ones working in her house, and especially the one carrying her child, isn’t just thrilled to be there. And had the AUDACITY to ask after her little girl. Who was taken from her and is being raised to move into some powerful couple’s home to be raped every month in the…

I read the book as a young woman and was horrified, as Ms Atwood intended. But I do think the visual story telling in the television series adds a lot to the story. The cinematography, sets, costumes, lighting - it’s all amazing and I feel like I could watch with the sound turned off and still get what was going on.…

This is actually why I think the flashback story was incredibly important for the episode, the story of the Waterfords using “free speech” to push their agenda into the mainstream, the silencing of Ofglen, and Ofglen’s use of violent speech all weave together to tell a more complete story and a less disjointed read…

I would have loved more Ofglen leading up to it. I assume she opened her mouth at brunch and showed Serena why she wasn’t chatting. That was almost as badass as the bomb and made me just adore her as a person.

I loved the loooong beat after “What do you girls [ugh] talk about on your walks?” Because, imho, Serena Joy only at that moment realized she had put together a light brunch date where the one who was supposed to play the part of lively, chatty best friend turned out to be a woman with her tongue cut out. Oopsies!

I think it just tasted gross.

Great review as always. 

Yeah, but religious fundamentalism has been part of the fabric of American society going back to the Puritans. This stuff didn’t start in 2016.

Yes, the Americhristians are hell bent on making it a Christian theocracy. Not being an American and living in states where Christian extremists control the legislatures, trying to inflict their oppressive beliefs on others I can understand, to a point, your doubt and disbelief. So instead of mocking, maybe learn…

You mean the Afghanistan who was our #1 partner and very good buddy in the fight against communism?

“Then there’s the colony. There are countless women dying from radiation exposure and they don’t come together and at least kill one of their oppressors. How much worse can it get? Fight. I’m picking up radiated waste and ripping their masks off and shoving it down their throats.”

The US already is a fanatically religious Christian country. That’s the whole point of this article. 

Just let AV Club know which staffer is physically holding you hostage forcing you to read it against your will rather than simply scroll past, and I’m sure the matter will be dealt with.

Analyzing the political ideology of the show, no problem, but that’s not what she does here, she sees the show as a vehicle for her propaganda.

Nope, you’re legally not allowed to talk about how bad things are if there’s something out there worse. Can’t talk about how you have a cold, because imagine if it were cancer. Can’t talk about police brutality, because hey, there’s still human trafficking. Can’t talk about Miller Lite because there’s still craft…

The attitude that “it couldn’t happen here” is exactly the attitude that lets it happen. Just because other places could be closer to it then us doesn’t mean this country couldn’t slide into it as well. I don’t think it would happen but Handmaidens tale can be a warning of what could happen if we let certain groups…