I like this season up until the last few minutes: Kimmy's new job felt really shoe-horned in and I didn't feel any resolution from all of the stuff that unfolded beforehand. Although maybe I'm just not used to her getting what she really needs, rather than making the best of what she has gotten thus far.

I love how her mostly fake southern accent crept out more and more as the night wore on. Slow and steady.

Also speaking as someone in education, what of a coworker who made a consensual (albeit stupid) mistake with a student? Both made a mistake, but does that mean one ought to be reprimanded and termed "abuser?" The TA and the student who got caught up in the moment, and it's considered abuse? I understand a…

Apply that exact statement to most societies in the world today. Certainly, you would think that women would have had enough and perform a "soft" revolution. And yet.

His previous Handmaid killed herself, and they hint at it being something that he did to her. I imagine he didn't want to push too hard.

One of the better points of the series is "humans like to screw," and regardless of the law or morals or customs, humans will find a way to screw one another.

Statutory is a legal definition of rape, but if it is a consensual relationship between, for example, teacher and pupil, is it "big-R" Rape? The only violence or violation is against protocol that those around the relationship have created, not those in the relationship.

As you said in your review: the most horrifying part was to learn that Janine was still alive. I about gasped when I saw her still alive in that hospital bed, because whatever happens to her next can only get worse and worse.

Paul Sparks (Tom Yates) always feels like he's just phoning it in and reading cards here. I don't remember if it was better in previous seasons but I don't buy half of his line deliveries this season.

I'm with you there. I feel that way about every Bryan Fuller show. We've never really seen any shark-jumping or beating of dead horses. I'd rather a show ends early than runs too long. For every Pushing Daisies we have two Weeds, and it hurts to get through the final couple of seasons.

Wish we had gotten more of Serena Joy's past life than Luke's. His is less complex and mystifying than hers.

Sometimes I wonder if it's for the best that every show Bryan Fuller touches comes to life in a pretty great way and then dies shortly after. They always leave me wanting approximately one season more, and that's the second best you can ask for from a show, I think.

The art deco honestly keeps you coming back. Man is it a pretty space station.

I worry a bit about a sequel given the nature of the game itself: if it's about a return to Earth, all the tension and fear and confusion that the game created go away and it becomes a shoot-em-up romp? I also worry that a sequel set on Earth will lose some of the intimate feel of being on a decidedly-set world that…

The Democrats aren't useless. The Green Party is useless. The Democrats on the other hand are complicit. I would argue that's far worse than being useless.

By the end of the season I started looking forward to Weekend Update again. Glad they actually found a groove and decided to just go all-in on Trump, even if it was a bit too late.

They've been pulling a lot of short sketches that don't overstay their welcome lately. Where in the World is Kellyanne Conway? and Mom Animals both come to mind.

They've been playing with power so well here. Offred clearly knows she has power over the driver now that she knows (or thinks she knows?) he wants some action. Serena knows exactly what power she has over her own household and its limits. Janine knows she can still name her daughter, and she nurses her as well. …

The trial sequence kept pulling the rug out from under my feet, reminding me just what "trials" have the potential to be without due process. We hear the State's lawyer, expecting to hear another side, nothing. We expect to hear some response, but when he affirms it is the whole truth, the sentencing takes place,…

Jimmy Fallon and NBC know what Jimmy Fallon is, based on that monologue. Jimmy Fallon isn't funny, but he's fun. The only sketch where I didn't catch him singing something was the cold open, where his Kushner spoke no lines.