Because if she dies in childbirth, she can't be used to have more children.

Moira escapes by herself in the book. Offred doesn't leave the Red Center with her.

It'll only take one generation to subdue an entire gender. Augh.

And pretend to give birth!

It's probably more a matter of practicalities; many homes will have multiple domestic staff; the results of calling for "Martha" when you have three or four of them is veering into Monty Python territory.

Not only a specific title; also a specific color of dress. Wives are in blue, Marthas in green, Handmaids in red, and Econowives wear dresses of blue, green and red stripes, to denote that they fulfill all three roles (for lower-status men, as has been pointed out). Such a creepy, dehumanizing aspect of Gileadean…

They seem to have combined the traits of both into one character, which is often done for tv or movie adaptations of books. Can't have too many peripheral characters because it might confuse the viewers, I guess.

Identitarian? Uh, no. Do you even know what an Identitarian actually is? Try: I was simply making a joke based on what was in that linked article + some extremely current cultural coin (that Heineken ad).

AGGHHH!!! Please, no spoilers, including casting spoilers! You really should spoiler tag that whole post so hopefully I'm the only one who now knows the validity of my speculation for later in the season. :-(

Nice article. Thanks for the link. Paste always has something worthwhile to read lately!

I have to rewatch and check if we can see any waitresses through the windows. I worked at IHOP during summers around that time, and we wore what the woman is wearing in the video embedded in the review: ugly beige polyester dress covered by a dark brown polyester apron with ruffled shoulders. UGLY.

Unless it wasn't just a cameo, and we're going to get some Martha-related plot point.

Alas, the Kama Sutra is not readily available in the Soviet Union; I fear that their paltry few Communist positions would bore poor Martha.

Omg, I just spit my coffee out laughing, remembering that guy who posted about that in all caps every week.

Ugh, what a dick. He obviously just needs to share a Heineken with someone gay. (eyeroll)

No, I think it was just that Gus couldn't make it himself to make the drop *that time*.

I assumed that's exactly how everyone in this thread has been using the term "partner." I mean, Max was actually his partner in both senses of the word.

Gus's partner, Max, was killed by Hector at Don Eladio's place about 20 years before the events of Breaking Bad.

I thought Kim's goal was to find out that there *is* an original, and something about where it might be ("under lock and key"), so they can have Mike go in there and steal it.

I thought of "Eraserhead."