Yeah, especially in the show she has something of a tragic-villain quality — she’s clearly smarter and more capable than her dumbfuck husband and yet she actively helped to destroy not only her own potential but that of all other women instead of actually doing something constructive with it, and the result is that…

I mean, Nick is just staff, but he lives and works in a powerful commander’s home and has a lot of responsibilities, and is working for the government as an Eye, so he’s probably more high-status within Gilead than we’d expect drivers to be. That’s probably true of the other men.

She’s a fucking lunatic. She wraps her hand around June’s throat on one day and then on the next, she’s berating June for not contributing to a conversation.

When I watched Big Little Lies, I kept noticing that I dress like the Shailene Woodley character, so I guess my aesthetic is “traumatic past.”

It kind of struck me that I have a sweater I wear all the time that looks just like the ones they wear in the Colonies.

Caitlin PenzeyMoog’s tweet has vanished! Oh no! Well, I saw The Leftovers so I know what must have been in that image. I definitely thought of Patti Levin when Aunt Lydia mentioned she used to smoke.

I think the wives probably just have a wider range of what they’re allowed to wear, as long as it’s in the right general color/style — Handmaids and Marthas (and, I guess, Aunts) have uniforms because they’re servants, while the wives are technically free women. IIRC the Econowives from a couple of weeks ago had minor…

I was afraid that one of the brides would be revealed to be June’s daughter before realizing that she’s way too young. But honestly the reveal of the child brides was terrifying. Only because this stuff has actually happened (and still does) in real life. My grandfather’s sister was married off in a similar fashion…

I do remember some weird TLC shows involving people who were very “We’re not going to kiss until we’re at the alter” and it was about as uncomfortable to watch as you’d imagine so I suppose some of those people exist now let alone in Gilead.

I’m still legitimately confused about what happened. June just walked out of the house and then fell? I feel like I missed a scene. When Nick found her I thought she’d jumped out of the window (or fallen out).

That makes sense. The problem with making Jim may have been trying to copy him perfectly. Biology/hardware implies structure, and you can’t perfectly force the architecture of a host to cognitively function the same way as a human. But if you allow your robot people to be something new, you have a way forward—and…

Uploading to a host is off the table or maybe not..just maybe at the time they collected Delos mind it was. Now they have a new more complex “OS” that Elsie hasn’t seen.

I think that’s where the missing 3D robot printer thing went. To create the immortal Ford. It’s looking like we’re seeing a battle between Ford’s consciousness and Arnold’s, who figured out Ford’s plans and is trying to stop him.

Theory time:

Hi dad!

Thank goodness you got the whole Luke/Annie/June affair. Others have missed the point of why it’s in this episode.

This episode really ties a lot of threads into June’s recklessness that we’ve seen in the first few episodes. It’s the kind of pay-off that is frustrating early on, but is satisfying, dramatically speaking, when it comes to a head. I love the bleakness that this sets up for the rest of the season.

Mind-blowing. She’s insanely good at her job.

It’s amazing how she can play so many things in one breath: legitimately wanting to protect this woman, while simultaneously grinding down her very soul.

Ann Dowd. That is all.