I know I’m late to the party with this. What I found moving about this episode was Carol’s response to Lydia’s death wish. As Lydia explained to Carol, Lydia’s mother had called her weak, and she thought her mother was right.

How many times must Carol have heard similar condemnations from her (gone, but not mourned) hus…

I’m not defending Serena in any way but I could see her arguing that she did it to protect June. I seem to recall Serena telling June that she had only one year in which to get pregnant, after which she could be considered barren and sent to the Colonies — and, as Fred wasn’t likely to father a child, it was in June’s…

Black market.

There were several Marthas on the plane.

My head-canon is that, since we know that the cargo plane does a weekly run, it’s one of the many small bits of corruption tolerated by the Gilead regime. There are plenty of such examples in real life – smugglers who are “ignored” by the authorities in exchange for a cut of their proceeds and/or illicit goods like…

I mean, I assume they’re already there. No way Gilead is a volunteer army. They have to be scraping the bottom of the barrel because 1) a not insignificant part of the original military/police force which surely was absorbed into whatever bullshit this is left or died. 2) women compromise about 16% of the modern…

Nick did rape June. June did not consent to that first sex act. (I’m surprised by the amount of commentary I am seeing missing that point.)

The tape is misleading. (Isn’t Luke in possession of it, anyway?) June speaks to what the relationship became, not how it began. If you’ve seen OITNB, it’s similar to Pennsatucky’s…

“Her Martha rushes in, changing her mind. She wants to return the child to her home, no harm, no foul. June grabs a gun, tells her this is a one-way-trip. Oddly, this now looks like child abduction instead of liberation.” —- yeah but she’s right. They can’t let her go now. It endangers the 50 other children and dozens…

I don’t know, I thought Moira made it pretty clear through the way she held the baby and regarded Serena that she might as well have been yelling that. I thought the important stuff to say out loud was said out loud.

In the one scene, there were maybe 15 or so crummy looking apples not fit for much more than making pie. One week, it was evident that they were buying any surplus canned food in jars that was brought in. You’re right; Gilead is dying. They can barely feed themselves, everything is rationed (make sure you get some…

This could also be true though considering that Canada was willing to go to the negotiating table over this.

That was still a Walter White move from June. Whatever the rationale, she coldly let another woman die, a sweet soul who had helped her. And there wasn’t a real concern about Eleanor betraying their plan, except one the show had tried to fabricate out of convenience, because in other episodes it was clearly established…

I was both thrilled and chilled by Moira’s line “You’re the real gender traitor!” (especially as delivered by the always-stunning Wiley). Women are supposed to protect one another from harm - especially from predatory men. Women share in the experience of constantly being on guard (and often in outright fear) because…

At the very least, he likely feels that June’s reprimand of Eleanor was the inciting event for this particular suicide attempt.

AND another thing about June’s (bad) decision here—June remaining in the Lawrence household was dependent on Eleanor remaining alive! Commanders without wives are not issued handmaids! I was half expecting that Aunt Lydia’s reason for being at the funeral was to whisk June away to the Red Center until she could be…

But that’s not how they felt in the moment—instead, it felt like the show taking a breath to celebrate the power of its heroine.

This is good, if only for getting short-haired, “Kali - Destroyer of Worlds”, Carol back.

I think Darryl was using Henry’s naiveté to get info out of her.

Reedus and McBride didn’t get their raises until after Laura Cohen’s departure.

“And why is it she still gets an entire office to herself, while herco-workers with years more experience are stuck incubicles?