Yes, especially since the constitution has been suspended, so there are no rights, period.

Plus there's a very strong propaganda effort to that effect.

They referenced the icy road just before it crashed. I like the gravity well idea better though.

You have seen the Twilight Zone episode about this? Post-apolcolyptic life without glasses…

I agree. That last scene resolved the enormous cliffhanger of the previous episode, when June was asked to write something, and we knew it could get her killed. It turns out the Mexican guy was telling the truth, and June's giant risk paid off. Which she doesn't know, but now we do.

No, that's what I thought too, but that may have been from the movie, not the book. June did spend several months in the red center though, before her first posting, being "trained."

Margaret Atwood is a consultant on the show and said she likes this version, that it "goes deeper" than the book.

He's also on opioids so not thinking straight.

I think he is intentionally written as not a perfect guy, just a guy. But I do still trust his love for June and Hannah. I think the thing with the pistol was to show how he still really did not get what was going on, even as they were escaping. His shock at those bodies hanging in the church made me think it…

Yes, but I think what temporalnotes is getting at is how this scene plays with the assumptions or fears lots of city dwellers have of guys with guns in the woods, even in the real world now.

Yes, and even while zooming away under fire the boat still kept its interior lights on…

There was a mention in an early episode about an Aunt escaping to Canada and telling the truth about Gilead to the press. So not all the Aunts are happy.

I couldn't tell if Aunt Lydia was compassionate, or if she's so blinded to the torture she inflicts, she doesn't notice the missing eyes or hands, or sees them as proud evidence of her authority. Sending the maimed ones away diminishes the appearance of Aunt Lydia's power.

There was a black man in a suit with a briefcase in the background of one of the outside scenes—he looked like a Commander.

Well it's a theocratic dictatorship. There are no religious minorities in Gilead.

Yes, Miss Marple is a regular bringer of Death.