I assumed the compromised safe house she was supposed to be taken to was the one who spilled the beans about the plane. That’s what pissed me off about June meeting the plane the most. How did she not realize it would be a trap at this point?

I was wondering about the family as well, if they were caught or arrested for being helping a handmaid (or even just being muslim), you’d think guardians or eyes would have searched the house. Maybe that implies they ran off themselves.

For me, most of the suspense of that final sequence came from June’s internal conflict- I was absolutely terrified she wouldn’t be able to make herself get on the plane. It was a lovely moment of (imagined) grace between June and her mom and Hannah, and I thought the brief moment of giddy solidarity between June and…

I’m actually not sure that she’s having sex with him just because she wants to — like, this is the dude she’s relying on to get her out of the country. He is in some ways her captor and has a huge degree of power over get — she recognizes this, and that she needs to keep him on her side.

Can we talk about how emotionally devastating it was watching June walk through the abandoned Boston Globe building? It seemed to be a mirror image of what is really happening to newsrooms across this country.

I suspect she’s blow Nick’s brains out to get her family back with no regrets.

the scene of emily moving through the airport was so tense for me. one of the great things about the handmaid’s tale show is it’s making the perspective of a refugee or someone fleeing violent conflict accessible and understandable to an american audience. there was a taste of this in season one when Moira arrives in…

After looking at it again, I did like how genuinely stressed Eugene is by Gabriel’s attempted escape. The Saviors already have the shitty bullets, and Gabriel risked them discovering that with just one person getting hurt instead of the all-at-once ‘firing squad’ Eugene suggested to Negan.

Am I the only one who whistled the Andy Griffith Show theme a couple of times during this episode?

He’s one of Maggie’s closest advisors (assistants? cheerleaders?); I assumed his nodding was not of agreement but understanding of what is being said (like a therapist’s “uh-huh, I see.”) I further assume that he feels his best position is to remain as close as he has been so that he can keep her from going off the…

Daryl is really becoming the worst character on the walking dead. Didn’t he just go through a whole arc of him feeling guilty because his rash, aggressive behavior got Glenn killed? So what does he do - something rash and aggressive that’s probably going to get a ton of people killed. And I still have no idea why…

“a Wilkes-Barre of walkers.”

That’s my take-away from this episode.

Letter grade’s about right, minus two things:

Gavin is a pretty great Negan lieutenant, too. Just a practical, fed up with whatever bullshit he’s facing from day to day, middle manager type. Before the zombie apocalypse, it was TPS Reports. Now it’s making sure Ezekiel gives him the right number of cantaloupes. SSDD for ol’ Gavin.

Khary Peyton would like a word with you sir

See, as much as I complain about this shit, this is why I keep coming back.

I like Ezekiel better as “just some guy” than as “King”. He was painful to listen to as King, mostly because it was so obviously an act I had a really hard time believing anyone could actually buy into it. I suppose it’s possible no one actually did buy in, and they were all just humoring him but that somehow makes…

I thought it was more to do with the comparison with Janine's punishment? Putnam gets punished, yes, but it's sterile and anesthetized and he is still alive, whereas Janine is sentenced to death by stoning, kneeling in the dirt in front of her sisters. It made the thought of stoning more horrific.

I think on some level she felt shame. She was forcing herself to go through with the punishment for Janine because she told herself it was the only thing she could do, and then she saw her "girls" had the courage that she lacked.

When they offered Moira a corner to "just read," it felt enormous.