This show runs into all the issues you get when you’re adapting for TV (aiming for ten seasons!) a relatively short novel that just traffics in metaphors and leaves the world-building purposely undefined.

I thought that the issue was that the garage door had frozen in its track (literally; that’s why she was hacking away at the ice). It’s happened to me. She pulled the manual release to make it possible to open a garage door without power, and (at least for my garage door) the ‘lock’ from the inside is just a manual…

The crack about knitting got under my skin a little. It’s fine in isolation, but I’m sick of women characters in patriarchal settings showing they have a brain by hating knitting or sewing (see Arya in the first episode of Game of Thrones). It starts to seem like the writers buy into the idea that everything “girly”…

Thanks for sticking it out in the comments, tho...

The point of depicting her “cheating” guilt was that she shouldn’t feel guilty at all. Happy couples can’t be broken up. Annie was Luke’s first love. They were young and, as June said, people grow apart.

Alma said as much. “It’s not your fault. Not that part.” Ofglen’s loss is Ofglen’s fault, but all those burned arms are June’s burden. Other Women blame June for what Gilead has spawned.

Well, the fact is, she’s not responsible for any of this. She’s not responsible for Omar’s death or for Luke cheating, or for Rita getting slapped,for the other Handmaids refusing to kill Janine with her. She may have persuaded them to do those things, but none of this is actually her fault. She never killed anyone,…

i see this show as four seasons, maybe five if they really do some world-building outside of June’s immediate environs.

Ten??! Please no.

A supermutant altering reality is fine. I have zero problem with that. My comment was on Alex’s description of divergent earth theory, which I see quite commonly, but would require human decisions to be probability based and I don’t believe they are.

There are many valid multiverse theories, parallel and divergent. I was specifically responding to the characterization of Mr. McLevy. Simply put, unless you believe human choice is inherently probabilistic, then there is no splitting every time we make a choice. That’s not a scientific interpretation of the…

Unless he can ask Heisenberg about it.

I’m not sure you can expect a meth head to have accurate science.

Pet Peeve here

It took me a while, but I got it: This is how the most powerful psychic in the world mourns his sister.

I seriously doubt that “Rose was a total asshole who never really cared about anyone really” is actually going to be the final conclusion they’re going for, especially not on THIS show.

Well, this episode illustrates that Tina is indeed her mother’s daughter, but Linda’s obliviousness is my least favorite trait, so not my favorite episode. Especially since Tina has been shown to be really diligent when placed in a position of authority (babysitter, hall monitor, etc.). Her not wanting to confront…

Personally, I would not have trashed all the sand castles. I’d have set up a human barricade and directed the runners off to the side - there looked to be enough Junior Life Guards to do that. But that’s just me.....

I don’t think that it was A worthy. Tina’s imagination is usually pretty funny, but she was bordering on unlikable by thinking that she was the hero in her own story when she wasn’t putting in the effort that everyone else was and deluded herself into thinking that everyone was telling her to keep going when they…

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