I’d love to run for that kind of position, to have things be very common sense. There’s so many things this country needs to do that are so obvious.

Thrre’s hundreds of generic white dude actors out there who haven’t physically assaulted a woman. Go hire one of them instead.

The Mon-roar Doctrine: The U.S. has the right to intervene in any dinosaur-led regime in the Western Hemisphere.

This is, I think, part of what happens when you do a literal adaptation of a metaphorical work of fiction. In the book, Gilead just exists. Offred has no idea of it’s scope, power structure, or overall health. All she knows is she’s deep in it. Take that and try and world-building for TV mostly using one character’s…

What you say is more or less true, but it’s beside the point. The reasons Claudia’s faction felt the way it felt matter only to an extent. What matters is that we’re not talking of a political party pushing an agenda of traditionalism through political action and opposition. We’re talking of a military institution…

Eh, I disagree. I’m more of a cider guy than I am a wine one.

Margo Matindale is sooooo fucking good it’s unfair. She lets a low key menace rise to almost the surface while never quite breaking through the Claudia facade. I was certain that scene was going to end in bloodshed. And, then she just goes back to eating soup. It’s such “Fuck you, Elizabeth Jennings. You made your…

Oh yeah? Well she blocked me on twitter, so take that!

omplete and utter non claim to fame- a friend of mine was the last winner of the Great Irish Bake Off...

I think something will happen with Renee. However, I am starting to wonder if they have something more ambiguous planned wherein Stan’s broken and cannot trust anyone, kind of like what Matthew Legarreta said before me.

Which is even bleaker since it could result in Stan being very broken and at least us leaving with…

Yeah, I can totally imagine a final Stan scene in which, after all the shit goes down between the Jennings, some little thing Renee says or does throws him off, and we’re left with him being paranoid about if his partner is a spy too. We never find out as an audience, reinforcing the ultimate damage here: he will…

Stan mentions he isn’t looking to have kids since he is too old and this makes sense when one considers he looks at Henry as the son he never had.

And that’s the problem with Stan’s statement—-never really over the 8 years that he lived right across the street, did that ever cross his mind.

The thing is, Stan acts as Henry’s dad more than Phillip. When Henry returns home for Thanksgiving, it ends up being a visit with Stan that makes Henry happy and feel supported. In much the same regard, Stan mentions he isn’t looking to have kids since he is too old and this makes sense when one considers he looks at…

What you’re not seeing is that Trump has appointed a lot of extreme right-wing judges to the judiciary. Judges are lifetime appointments and there’s not much one can do to remove a judge once appointed. So even if the next president undoes a lot of the damage Trump has done to regulations or agencies like the EPA, the…

Not many EU countries forbid abortion after 6 weeks, as just passed in Iowa.

I’m really enjoying the season so far, though I couldn’t help but be a little thrown off by the couple in last week’s episode. It’s hard to picture a society with Gilead’s particular ideology that would ALSO be ok with interracial marriages. Like “hands off our pristine white women” would’ve been passed the first week…

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…

Wait, you’re telling people not to watch a movie that contains this scene?

Their treatment of non-private high school is pretty fucking galling to this public school teacher. Like there was *no way* that Rory would attend Harvard from a public school. And, lo and behold, exactly none of the kids who went to Stars Hollow High even went to college.