The color saturation is a little weird, I only know their "official" colors from the books. Or it could be your TV settings. :)

If the woman is wearing green, she's not a Wife but rather a Martha (servant class). They're all color coded - blue for Wives, red for Handmaids, green for Marthas, blue/red/green stripped dress for Econowives (not introduced in the story yet), and black for men of any class.

Game of Thrones' plot line leans heavily on dragons and mystical ice zombies.

Hannah might be more popular right now, but it's a Biblical name, so not necessarily contemporary.

The same possibility (that the Commander is sterile) is mentioned in the book, both by the doctor and in the epilogue. But you'd probably never make the leap from that to Book!Serena Joy being fertile just because she's so clearly too old at the time of the story.

And garden. I'm assuming all those houseplants are Serena Joy's main hobby.

I kind of miss the relationship between Cora and Rita. I'm not sure why they felt they needed to leave Cora out.

Probably because in the book, there are two Marthas in the household (Rita & Cora). They can't both be called Martha.

Could be, although guard dogs can also be loving family pets to their household.

Isn't it Moira who saw her, and tells Offred about it when they are chatting at Jezebel's?

Right, and certain POC will be accepted into the upper echelons - if they toe the line and are pretty much anti-black themselves. Bill Cosby, Shelby Steele, Clarence Thomas, etc.

Absolutely, I'm surprised it's not mentioned by Offred, included among the crappy things that might happen.

That's true, I guess it's more that I'm surprised that the possibility of dying in childbirth (baby or mom or both) really isn't mentioned. It's not something I noticed reading the book, but more recently I've had a couple of acquaintances have really difficult births that would have killed them if they were at home.

I could have sworn I heard dogs barking in the background of a scene in this episode. Maybe those were just dogs in my neighborhood?

Indeed. I understand why they made the decision they did casting-wise, but I would at least like them to address whatever the existing racial politics/hierarchy of Gilead are (since I assume they have that).

Maybe the country broke up into multiple bits - like the Mormons take over in Utah and surrounding areas, Mexico takes back their former territory in the southwest, etc.

Well, if they haven't gotten pregnant in 9 years with 3 guys, there's no real reason to think they will in year 10/guy 4. It would deter any sort of home abortion that might be otherwise attractive. And I doubt they have any interest in keeping these surplus women alive after their breeding years.

That brings up a question for me - why do they give birth at home? You'd think if the society is so concerned about birth rates and the health of the children, they'd be in some kind of clinical setting. I doubt Aunt Lydia can perform a c-section.

Ah, interesting. I've always heard it described as "hospitality" but perhaps that's more of an archaic usage of the word.

Weird. In a similar vein when I was looking up the Catholic opposition someone else mentioned, apparently the Pope felt the need to explicitly say he didn't think the first "test tube baby" was some kind unholy monster.