I would have given anything to see more of Little America and less of that stupid blue car.

Between the regular US military, reserves, national guard, and federal, state and local government, that's millions of people. They're not just going to just disappear or stop functioning. The idea of offing POTUS, SCOTUS and congress all at once isn't going to go off without a hitch, either. And don't get me started…

For some reason I was thinking they got 3 posts of 2 years each. That's what I get for missing staff meetings, I guess.

This episode was all character building for Luke and did nothing to move the plot forward. I had to fast forward through the business in the trunk. Everything they did could have been accomplished in 15 minutes or less. I would have been so much more interested in seeing more of where Luke is now, what his role is…

The showrunners are not following the original story, and haven't been from the beginning, since they decided to throw out the racism.

Zach and Coke was asking how we would respond if this fertility crisis happened in real life. I think we're all aware that on the bell curve of logic, Gilead is walking in the valley of the damned.

Nobody needs to be raped or forced to carry a baby. They've just begin trials for artificial wombs for sheep, so it won't be long before those are used for humans. In a crisis scenario, clinical trials and release for widespread use would go to the express lane. Scientists have also 3D printed working ovaries for…

So are these really kind of ration books a la WWII? Because I would imagine there would be a fluctuation in the exchange rates for some stuff depending on supply and demand. So the men are never stopping in the supermarket to pick up their own stuff, I guess. How does this work out with gas?

There seems to be an enormous armed man on every street corner and in every building about every 20 feet. Nick has a gun, Fred probably has a gun, nobody on the show looks like they're starving, and the doctor even looked fat. So there are plenty of weapons, there is no food shortage, and neither of those things is…

I think after this episode people are wondering what happened to traditional fertility treatments in other countries. It's going to seem like an extreme stretch of logic to say that every single fertility treatment we know has been ineffective. In a crisis scenario, there might be more women willing to carry a baby to…

I think that only hammers home my point.

Human IVF was still new when the book was written in 1985, but the show hasn't compensated for this, or for the advances in fertility drugs and other procedures. I can buy into Gilead's religiosity, but that is not going to fly everywhere. And what are the chances that Mexico, or anywhere else, would have sat on its…

I doubt if you or anyone else will be thinking about this show in August. Don't let something temporary influence a celebration that you will be remembering for the rest of your life.

Actually, I find this very believable. For the Gilead coup people to be sending a mass alert out over cell phones, and for the Waterfords to then discuss it in a movie theatre full of people is just the kind of dumb stuff writers would do. They could have at least tried to say something like "The Eagle is landing in 3…

But what do they use money for? They get these little coupons with Fisher-Price pictures stamped on them.

But was it pre- or post-Gilead?

I don't see how that's a spoiler. Totalitarian regimes always kill all the Jews. It's Takeover 101.

It's not clear, but I haven't see any Jews yet.

There is so much of this story that runs on phlebotonium to begin with, and then they want me to believe that they are going to give away fertile women for… what? I didn't catch what thing Mexico has that would be more valuable than fertile women in a worldwide fertility crisis.

It IS racist. They killed all the Jews.