Initially I was assuming Alma meant they wanted to *import* handmaids from Mexico, since that's the only thing that makes any damn sense. If you accept that the handmaid program is actually about fertility, why on earth would Gilead export their handful of fertile women? And if you accept that the system is actually…

IIRC it's never been brought up to be cast aside in the show, it's just totally ignored. But I may be mis-remembering.

Maybe the Book!Bostonians were just so excited about expelling all the black people that they were willing to convert?

The costume designer is using a slightly larger blue palate that includes more turquoise shades, but in interviews she says their color is blue. You can see some much more obviously blue dresses in the pictures in this article: http://www.hollywoodreporte…

In the book they mention bringing trade delegations to Jezebel's. Maybe they'll have another trade delegation (either a second one from Mexico or one from another country).

The bible quoting is the portion of Genesis where god makes Eve:

I really have to stop watching this show at work. I'm listening with headphones, but still… listening to Actor Sex multiples times per episode is aaaawkward.

the commanders of Gilead don't really care about fertility,
they are just using it as a flashpoint to keep women down theme that the
show had been building up to this point.

I suppose they have to memorize the recipes like their foremothers did. My grandmother's baking was maddening to try and write down.

Eh, we really don't get anything about the Marthas except what work they do and that they're allowed to be sassy. And nothing about Econowives except a really brief scene.

There is someone listed on the IMDB credits as an Econowife. No idea when they show up or if they'll have any actual lines, though.

Did you catch Serena Joy's painting room? She can grow flowers and paint flowers and cross stitch flowers.

No idea! Handmaid retirement cruise?

If I had to pick, I'd pick being a Martha. Mainly because I would have something to do all damn day. And some (most?) of the upper class homes have more than one Martha, so you'd have a friend, of sorts.

I'm curious how you find the changes to Luke in the show (ex: him not trying to get laid the night all the women lose their jobs)? I have been thinking of him as much better that Book!Luke, but then I came across a comment somewhere that Book!Luke seems pretty regressive to a modern reader, but would have been fairly…

I'm pretty sure it is some kind of fashion/beauty magazine in the book, too.

Pretty sure, yes.

I don't think it ever says one way or another.

Maybe she takes sleeping pills? Or secretly drinks somehow…

Yes, I was expecting the exact same thing wrt the race of the handmaids! It seems like a great (and fairly accurate to history) way to engage with the racialism of these kinds of belief systems while not having to have an all-white cast. Sigh.