We know for a fact that Phillip did kill someone in Russia.

My husband pronounces it like that — LAH-ree — and he's from central Pennsylvania. (I'm New York born and bred; from my mouth it is LAW-ree.)

I'd really love to see a scene of Serena Joy going to bed in a wing of the house far distant from the Commander's study, downing some alcohol or sleep medication so that we know, for SURE, that she's completely out of it when Offred goes on walkabout.

Yup, me too.

I think that's an excellent point, and true (as far as why Atwood included it), but I also like it as a way of humanizing Offred. She's not Katniss Everdeen, or Hermione Granger. She isn't a heroine, or an icon. She's a person, an ordinary person who had an ordinary life, and ordinary flaws. Someone with whom many…

Ugh, awful. We are doomed.

Definitely. I thought that was a jingoistic, face-saving sort of comment. "Yes, the Americans have developed a super-wheat, but…they stole it from *us*, because of course the USSR has the smartest scientists! So you shouldn't feel bad about killing that lab tech; he was part of their criminal, international …

LaToya, I think you mean "She Scully" in the Stray Observations section.

:-(

HA! That is highly unusual, though.

A half-hour client-of-the-week comedy. We got a better deal, definitely

Ah, thank Jeebus I wasn't the only one being driven mad by that (and he isn't the only AV Club reviewer with this nasty habit).

Yeah, sorry, I was reading newest-to-oldest, and the reply didn't appear right next to the comment (it was quite a few down the line), so I didn't realize you'd elaborated on your remarks when I commented. Sorry, and thanks.

Is she whitewashed though, really? When I first saw her on screen as Rita, I absolutely saw her as a black woman, and I had no prior knowledge of the actress (until I read what you just wrote).

When I think of torture and The 100, I immediately think of whiter-than-white Murphy as getting the lion's share. Now I have to go and find something to read about this!

Honestly, I can't understand how any woman — any woman not in Gilead — can voluntarily choose to see a male gynecologist. There are so many things I talk to my GYN about that are experiential, and I think I'd have a hard time conveying much of that to someone lacking the equipment.

Wow, a Lady in Red apparently haunts the station — a Handmaid?! 😀

I hope that a lot of women who voted for Trump are watching this.

It really did have the rhythm of a communion ceremony. Excellent point, and yet another layered bit of imagery to think about until next Wednesday.

I think it's the old boiling the frog thing. You know, how a frog will stay in a pot of boiling water until it dies, if you raise the temperature a teeny tiny bit at a time? I see it through my own 21st century liberal eyes: we've had politicians regress things like reproductive rights, mandate what girls can wear to…