Oh, brother. With Bill Maher and Sofia Coppola consulting.

I've honestly never heard anyone say that before. On the one hand, it was genuinely nice to see The Most Perfect Princess In All Of The Lands get pushed off of her pedestal for the viewers to see (even while things were just falling into her lap, like the editor position and the stupid worship from her hometown), and…

And so begins Rory's descent into the pit.

I was thinking of him through that whole episode.

To italicize:

I understood the critique for what it was, but it turns out that Canada is the North as the North is to the South.

Meh. Black Canadian here, this place is racist as all get out but it likes to project its racism on to the States. Best trick we ever pulled was getting Americans to think that Canada is some kind of enlightened racial paradise and it's even worse for our First Nations populations. Nah, we've got all the same problems…

So that's where this came from?

I never said Christianity was the only choice, this isn't about my opinion, I'm just relaying what she is saying, which is that (in spite of the obvious parallels) Christianity was not a given. I know that she calls her work speculative fiction because she draws upon historical precedent to guide her writing rather…

Whoops, comment cut off. I was never fully convinced but Christianity is what's most familiar to author and audience, so maybe it was inevitable. I don't remember her being so explicit as to read from the Bible in the book, but it's been a while. If they're reading from the Bible in the show I don't know how she can…

I was never totally convinced.

Atwood's position is that it is a story of fundamentalism, not Christianity. I haven't read the book in quite some time, but as I remember it certain groups of Christians, including Quakers, were forced underground. In promoting the series she's said something to effect of, 'If you read it as a Christian theocracy,…

In the book, black people are denounced as 'Children of Ham' and are exiled from society.

Her grandson's execution wasn't botched the way hers was, that axe ran through Charles nice and smooth. That's what you mean, right?

Margaret Atwood has said the same thing to the letter in interviews, so I think Moss is saying what she knows Atwood wants to hear. Atwood effectively says that it's a human rights story unless you don't see women as humans, but Moss' response does dovetail nicely with trying to scrub the 'f' word away for antsy…

The audience thought that he was too mean and he fought with the show's producers. I think his name is Wayne Goss, right?

This was also during the time when if a black person died of unknown causes, the coroner would automatically write in the cause of death as 'racial characteristics', which meant syphilis.

These days when you buy a ticket, make sure you get a refund with it.

Yeah, it's just jokes because she cut her last three tours off for various health-related issues: first her throat issues, then Joe's illness, this time the pregnancy. Time will tell for 2020.

Lauryn will show up, just not on the day she promises and not to do a concert.