Thanks for noting that. It did seem that conception wasn’t the only issue; it was the ability to deliver a healthy, full-term baby. A woman had even tried to kidnap Hannah at the hospital after her own newborn died.

(and it helps that FX let’s you watch it on hulu the next day).

Well, most of their adult lives. Seven years is enough to know what they’re faced with. Esther seems to have been an exception because she was not only given a worse deal than most, but apparently had grown up with at least one Martha who taught her skills with natural poisons. She had been encouraged to resist rather…

The way she feels and the way it’s presented are two different things. The guy behaved like he pulled a trick on her, but I don’t think the idea that they would rather turn Fred (or any other commander) than execute/imprison him is new information. And it’s not like June’s deposition was coerced, it would have…

The problem with that is he’d been returned to *some* form of power - in the form of being a ‘consultant’ - even before he utilized Lydia’s knowledge. He should’ve been on the wall immediately.

It is a betrayal for June; whatever the grand scheme of things was supposed to be. They’re freeing the man who tortured and rape her; after making her believe there was gonna be a trial. How do you think she’s gonna react? I suspect she will try to take justice in her own hand; we’ll see how it plays out.

Will your kitty eventually eat the dry if you ignore him — has he trained you well, servant? — or is there something medical going on? Dental problems can put them off dry food, even though they usually love it. Our issues are manifold but part of it is what looks like an oral-cavity immune disease in one cat. I’m…

Just watched it again. She’s using a satellite phone but Lawrence is clearly on a standard Office Depot landline phone. In Gilead. The show is just so inconsistent with its worldbuilding I don’t know what to think— is he taking precautions we’re not seeing? Is he above being tapped? Do other commanders know he’s…

I was about to write the same things. Isn’t Gilead a fascist regime with an obsession for control? All those Eyes and Guardians, V for Vendetta-like? And then Nick just go called on his phone, “Hey man, what’s up. Listen, would you like to come to Canada to meet June & possibly your daughter? You would? Terrific. How d…

Nick stated outright that there were "friendlies" that helped him get the dossier on Hannah. Everyone would bitch that they wasted time showing the details, and so they didn't. 

They weren’t using a regular phone for that call.

WHAT THE FUCK. YOU CAN JUST CALL SOMEONE IN GILEAD? ON A LAND LINE? I thought it was supposed to be as locked down as North Korea!

Shhh...the French executive with no children is telling us everything we do wrong. You should just listen and learn...

Some of my coworkers hustle themselves into a state where they are “too busy” to take a lunch break almost every day. Let’s call them Lunch Martyrs. They enable the boss or people from other departments to interrupt lunch break time, and it spreads out to more and more people not respecting that break time. Those…

Also noticed when I had it that sometimes it would freeze when I tried to go back to the homepage.

That’s terrible. A tech company should be able to keep their platform working properly.

PUSA

You can really confuse the young’ins by telling them a band named “Butthole Surfers” had a hit in the 90's.

Younger GenXers are gonna know that too.

The chicken sandwich with blue cheese and blue cheese sauce sounds fantastic