Ooh, great link! This is the episode I thought Moss's "not a feminist story, a human story" quote was about - glad I wasn't the only one. It is true that uninteresting people weather extraordinary circumstances, but they needed to overcome his ordinariness. Especially if he's going to become more of a main…

Huh, I think my problem is that this episode is doing the marvelous subtle work it's been doing all along (Luke being not the most enlightened guy), but Luke himself is still a cipher aside from that.

Agreed on all points.

Vox's review smartly pointed out this is how Luke sees June - as an almost angelic mother figure, and not how the show has portrayed June in her own POV. You're right - Luke himself is still mostly a blank page. He kinda represents passive patriarchal oppression, but his own personality feels nebulous. I feel like…

That was nice. I wondered if the James Taylor earlier in the episode was an ironic or sincere. My mileage probably varies, because I can't stand James Taylor, and I was rolling my eyes at that choice.

Why are you fighting so hard with me? I have valid criticisms of what this episode did and didn't do.

How unrealistic is it that he save Hannah? It's a great thing to want. It conveys that June is thinking she's lost. But it makes me think this show is wanting to turn into some kind of rescue caper, and I am NOT here for that.

I'm starting to think this might be the episode showing Luke hasn't come to grips with his new world as well as the women have.

I don't want to sound like I've turned on the show, but it's letting me down a little more each week. And I definitely feel like that's unpopular. I think because I don't love the transition from adaptation to TV show. I appreciate your thoughtful reviews - these and the discussions with other commenters have been…

That makes sense for the world we live in. It doesn't make sense for the world he lives in.

This reminded me of the Tailies episode of Lost. I loved Lost, but there were a ton of storytelling problems with that show.

I know he had just been shot, and was in mental and physical shock, but I was surprised at how much he needed to be talked out of getting off the bus. He knew how dangerous things were. It's not believable to have him think he could do anything to find, much less help his wife and daughter.

TVDW mentioned that in the Vox review, and that's a reasonable conclusion. Since we haven't seen that done to other characters (with major transgressions), and the others said she hasn't talked not that she couldn't talk, I'm not so sure. Either way, I'm not thrilled that the show isn't more clear. I feel like it's…

Agreed 100% on the world building. There are too many holes, and they aren't striking enough of a balance with POV other than June's that would help fill in the holes.

I know I'll be in the minority, but this episode didn't work for me. There was nothing about his escape and joining the resistance group that we haven't seen before. It was a by-the-numbers journey. It might be personal preference, but I don't find Luke very compelling, so I'm not interested in the details of how…

Right?

It's the baking that would be the killer. I wonder if they had to make measuring cups and spoons without numbers. Do numbers count as reading? (I think this might be one of the drawbacks of a longer exposure to this world - I start wondering about a lot of minutia.)

Nooooooo, I can't wait that long!

I don't watch anything as it airs any more, but I've been so excited (maybe the wrong word for the subject matter) for this, I have to see each episode as soon as I can. It's so relevant, I want to absorb all the analysis as soon as I can, too. It's worth less sleep (and nightmares) for a few weeks.

It posts at midnight Eastern time. I'm a little further west, so it's not too bad.