It was orange, a deep dark orange. It looked like a flame.

Then again, he does drive a better car in Breaking Bad.

Gould, not Gilligan. My bad, sorry.

I hate to say it, but you may be right. I found this on CinemaBlend (link follows), which includes this quote from Gilligan:

Because of all the other hints: repeated references over several episodes to her lack of sleep, Chekov's No-Doz, the scene in the car a few weeks ago where she went to take a nap but the alarm seemingly went off the moment she closed her eyes…

Un-sad, reasonable dinner when it's a choice, because you're dieting or having a vegan day. Sad, sad, 'poor Martha' dinner when you're living in Russia without your family and your Kama Sutra-practicing lover, and you don't speak the language well. That was definitely one sad potato!

Good point. But I wasn't saying that she *didn't* fall asleep; just that the decision they made was to not show us her eyes closing. I definitely think she fell asleep.

Well said, and I agree. In current-era Gilead, they're probably at least a few years away from outright trafficking in women as inanimate commodities.

No, I watched it frame by frame, and like others have said, they didn't even show her eyes fluttering much less closing. But I'm certain we were meant to take that as she had fallen asleep. Like beema, I could sense it coming, too, but it still made me gasp out loud!

I think his facial structure is remarkably similar to a young Sherrilyn Fenn's, especially around the eyes, but of course that doesn't preclude him being Ben's son (rather than Audrey's).

Thanks, I wondered that, too.

Heh…but of course that was Nigel's bit, not his.

I wrote it off to his growing Saul-ness being exacerbated by his being in pain. People in pain can be really, really mean, even if it's normally not in their character.

Clearly, not very well. But until recently she was at least performing her duties and staying in line — due to her Commander stringing her along, but still, it did the job. Why they aren't Boxing Helena the uncontrollable ones, I have no idea.

Co-signed. Like BCAMM, I think we can all agree that she is BCAAD.

Ah, that's right — Serena Joy dangles the information as an inducement for Offred to…was it sleep with Nick so she might have a better chance of conceiving? Thanks, that helped!

I think you mean "Offred."

As someone who came of age in the era of napkins but now uses pads, I can tell you that there is a difference: napkins are the ones that don't have adhesive strips, the ones that have 'tails' that you have to thread through the sharp toothy clasps on a fabric belt. My impression is that things like pads and tampons…

We don't know and can only speculate; the focus of the book (not counting the epilogue) focuses on a very short period of time, still fairly early in Gilead's existence. In the book's time period, there hasn't been enough time yet for any Handmaids to age out of the program.

They're not keeping "unsuitable" women from being Handmaids and breeding. The women who get sent to Jezebel's or the Colonies are simply the ones they can't control well enough via the Handmaid system. *Most* of The Handmaids we know are considered "unsuitable" by Gilead standards (divorced, adulterer, lesbian, etc.).