He says he's getting passports - I assume they caught him and the provider of the fake passports or similar.

IIRC Book!Gilead is not the whole US, but rather one region. Personally I doubt it would be the Northeast - Missouri, Kansas, and wherever the Duggars live seems more plausible - but Atwood is Canadian so maybe we all seem similarly regressive to her.

Yes, that would have been amazing!

I'm so perplexed by this comment. How can you have missed last week's episode when they're all streaming? You can watch it now.

Yeah, Odette. Who is not fertile and was sent to the Colonies IIRC.

I've always loved the ones at the beginning of 28 Days Later.

Eh, you can leave contacts for a few days while you're running through the woods.

Well, you have to take Vasectopus 101 as part of the women's studies major. The minor is there if you really want to perfect your technique.

Oh, good pull! I totally missed that.

I agree with you on the "present day" stuff, it's the intense repression during the flashbacks (rounding up the women, hanging all those people in the church) that don't quite hit right to me. June and Luke's complacency make less sense in that scenario.

Yeah, I understand that they're building a different kind of world. It just doesn't work for me.

Always pack extra glasses for the end of the world.

Yeah, he doesn't need to be extraordinary - you can do good character work with ordinariness. Half of Mad Men was that.

There's an aspect of this that is true to the book, where Luke is such a non-entity there it almost defies description. But the book has story structure reasons to keep him Nothing: Offred has been separate from him for at least 6 years and is pretty sure he is dead, Offred in general is way more catatonicly…

Sincere, probably. The lyrics are quite relevant, apparently. (Red All Over pointed this out; I literally only know any James Taylor from that one time he was on The Simpsons)

What an odd choice for the government-in-exile to have made.

I don't know that the cabin scenes were about *why*, but rather emphasizing how isolating this world is. You can't be seen or known, you can't trust anyone.

I knew we should make the book club mandatory.

There's a brief reference to this being her second posting. I can't remember if/when they tell the show viewer this, but each posting lasts 3 years. So it's been 3 years since she left the Red Center.

Well, those weren't especially brightly colored the way red, green & blue stripes would be.