taking Fred’s life was worth more to June than saving their’s.

I don’t think she’s going to be arrested (there’s nobody to testify to what she did in the no man’s land, or even to report what happened to Fred). I think she’s just expecting and accepting that Luke won’t be able to get over this and they’ll have to split – which, considering the smoldering (and maddeding) romance…

I can’t help but think this isn’t what The Handsmaid’s Tale was supposed to be

The idea that anyone could “move on” from this sort of trauma just by therapy and journaling is far-fetched.

Pretty sure Serena will stay in her elegantly austere cell for the time being. She’ll be back scheming a way out of jail with the help of poor besotted Tuello, June will be back scheming a way to visit biblical revenge upon her, possibly involving the unbirth of her prospective firstborn.

Fred and Serena didn’t plan to go back to Gilead. They just betrayed their country to buy their freedom, they knew they would be executed if they went back. Serena didn’t want to live in Canada (actually I’m not sure if that’s what she meant, or just Toronto, where June and the others are), but there were many other op…

the tonal shifts in the episode

1) “We can Zoom”. I can feel Margaret Atwood turning in her grave, and she’s not even dead!

Honestly, “That’s the Way Boys Are” (aka the anti-“You Don’t Own Me”) would have been more poignant, because it would be applied ironically to the scene, and to the fact that Fred never really changed and died the same man he ever was.

I so wish we’ll finally get “Eye of the Tiger” on one of June’s glaring into-the-camera close-ups before the show’s end, ten years from now.

They just turned one of 20th century’s literary masterpieces into a rape & revenge flick. And that’s the show redeeming itself?

Fans need to stop with all the low-brow “ship” meme bullshit.

Platonic male friendship’s a very complicated topic, you know. A lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-you’s. Lotta strands to keep in old Mackie’s head.

What Mackie meant to say is he can’t go out to search for a beautiful masculine friend at a bar anymore, without running the risk of being twisted by people trying to latch onto his devices.

I so wish Maze’s reinforcements ended up being cameos by Adam Scott, Tiya Sircar and Marc Evan Jackson.

Michael can walk around on Earth no problem. (God did banish him from Earth, right?)

Lilith’s ring imparts immortality, not invincibility.

I gotta say, there has to be a more satisfying middle ground between Supernatural’s “the offspring of an angel and a human is the most powerful being in the universe” and Lucifer’s “the offspring of an angel and a human is just a human”.

I’ve read Sandman (many many years ago), but not Lucifer, so I got to ask: how does the existence of the Abrahamic God gel with the Endless? I mean, in Sandman is established that nothing escapes Death and Destiny, which means God has to die too eventually, and is not all-powerful.

I like that Rob Benedict couldn’t stop talking as God in Supernatural, and had basically no lines here. He would fit this show (in a different role), by the way, since he’s also able to make an excellent shift between goofy and scary.