I think she knows what she's doing better than WE think. But consciously being an unconscious goofball is pretty hard to pull off.

Dida had the BEST LIPSYNC EVER against The Princess.

https://mic.com/articles/17…

SEASON 4 Snatch Game a mess? are you HIGH? (OK, it's because so many times I've seen the footage of Willam leaving a cardboard cutout of Jessica Simpson in her seat and leaving to go shopping…)

And I just remembered that tonight is SNATCH GAME!

I didn't do anything right after, because I had to go to bed, but tonight is RuPaul's Drag Race, so there's that.

Yes, of course, although the regime established in Iran was never, that I can remember, referred to as "Sharia Law" at the time. Nor do they do so now, though everyone seems to agree that it contains elements of Sharia Law.

This book came out in 1985? Were YOU hearing about Sharia Law at the time?

Guessing you're a guy? Perhaps a relatively young one?

Wow, that's a REALLY good point! I COMPLETELY forgot about that. One of the Vox writers discussing the show said she heard a tape recorder click a couple of times before Offred begins speaking in the show. I didn't hear it, but that would be the PERFECT explanation for the songs!

Without spoiling… I have read the book.

Also, it appears that most of the contiguous United States is now Gilead, or hotly contested. It's implied that only Alaska and Hawaii are still free.

Some people did manage to get out—Ofglen's wife and child, for instance, who had Canadian passports—but if you remember, Ofglen was detained at the airport).

Moira is likely not gone.

Anyone who carried a baby to term, I think even if it was a "shredder," got moved on to try again with another infertile power couple.

I knew it was going to happen and it still hit hard.

Assuming at some point they will discuss how (per the book) handmaids can be declared "unwoman" and sent to the colonies if they don't become pregnant, and how some handmaids—with the collusion of their female "owners"—get pregnant by having sex with a younger, conceivably more virile male in the house. There are…

The power dynamic between women (even women who consider themselves friends with each other) is a recurring theme in Margaret Atwood's books. She is pretty clearly suspicious of women in groups of more than, say, 3.

Re: your spoiler above, you're correct.

Huh?