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Which would have been HORRIFYING for both Moira and June.
I appreciate June's "not that kind of friends" remark. Fred looks at Offred as HIS, and he likes good girls to be bad for HIM. I doubt Offred/ June would have any sort of leverage with him if she were to have gone through with a threesome.

That's certainly the point of the bonn to and outfits and dressing the women the same.

That's a great point. I was sort of expecting Aunt Lydia to pull the plug on Janine at the end of the episode, until I remember d the premium this society places on fertility.

Huh. Interesting

Thanks, you get me.

I'm NOT really on board with the trading sex slaves plot. There is so much potential for conflict and drama already, to do this in the 1st season seems contrived to me.
Offred's speech to the Ambassador had me rolling my eyes - it was a bit much.
I was really impressed with Serena's backstory and the role she wanted …

I hear you. The show has been so good so far, I'm willing to trust it. Someone pointed out somewhere else in the discussion that in the book the epilogue discusses how minor Fred was in the Gileadean regime's history, and how in later periods they started to purge the more "impure" elements out of the society.
Either…

Me too!

Possibly. I thought for a moment that the Wife could possibly be a part of Mayday- it's possible the organization may have been able to pull some strings to get Emily posted to a sympathetic home. MAJOR BOOK SPOILER which may explain Nick knowing about it since the book he was a double agent working for Mayday

Yes, and I think by showing Ofglen/ Emily's story separate from Offred, right away - they've given the show a lot of room for expansion - but they still maintained the tone of how isolated each person is - especially with the visuals, which are striking.
Book stuff I'm really curious if, when, and how they will…

Correct!
The initial confusion - we're only on ep 3!- really speaks to how the Republic of Gilead strips women of their identity.

I didn't notice, thanks.

There was a great cast. And as Curious Orange said below some striking imagery - I remember in particular women going through a sort of metal detector for their fertility status.
I haven't seen it in a long time - since the '90s - I think I rented it at Blockbuster at one point after the theatrical release. There was…

They don't call her Handmaid Number whatever like they did in court. And it's Aunt Lydia that specifically comes in and calls her Emily.

I needed a moment after this one. It took me about the same time as Emily to grasp what had been done to her, and I had nearly the same reaction as she did.
It was interesting that we heard her name for the first time here. Of course she's no longer "Of Warren" - but that drives home that this happened to HER. The…

That's Repubplic's idea of redemption, I suppose.

That is a haunting shot - I can't get it out of my mind

Emily née Ofglen?

Now I want to introduce the phrase "bonnet face" into the pop culture lexicon somehow.
I just watched the last episode of The Americans, so let me try this
Elizabeth Jennings - no bonnet face
Paige Jennings - the ideal bonnet face
Phillip Jennings - bonnet face
Gabriel- bonnet face
Claudia - no bonnet face
Stan - no bonnet…