“two of them are BlackBerry phones. BlackBerry. Like, when is the last time you have seen a BlackBerry?”

By “complicit” you mean she didn’t immediately stand up and strike out, which would have gotten her sent to the Colonies or worse? Which is what happened to her anyway? I just don’t see how she had much more of a choice than any of the rest of them.

“Well, that and the unlikeliness of Emily offering solace to anyone who was party to the creation of Gilead.”

Are you joking? Like what connections to reality exactly do you see here?

That’s because there’s really no political reality to make a link to. Trying to sell viewers on the idea that women are doing worse and worse and are on the edge of some misogynist dystopia would come off ridiculous, and might even ruin the fun. Sorry to say it, but it’s better business than that for them to make it a…

Yes. You’re right. I have begun to worry that by Season 5 (because they’ll undoubtedly stretch this thing out past the breaking point) the show will be June cartwheeling out of concealment in slow motion  with a machine pistol in each hand, gunning down the forces of those EVIL MEN as she leads a strike team and frees…

I foresaw a mock execution and have always wondered if this tactic is actually effective, so it was interesting to see it explored dramatically. However, the song was overkill. The remarkable setting would have carried the weight.

• “The only scene that didn’t really work for me was the scene with the Waterfords at the medical center. Felt like a means to get June to her getaway meat truck and nothing else.”

I’m just gonna say it: Paige actually IS that hot. That guy must have been pretty drunk indeed.

I’m sure he stays in shape. Running and such.

It’s not really the “invisibility” issue. It’s that Elizabeth thinks Paige was seducing a guy in the course of trying to undertake missions on her own time, or is enjoying playing at being a seductress. She warned Paige away from such behavior right in this very episode, and previously, so the scenes line up and I’m…

Agree. That was indeed silly as well. And those Federal marshals didn’t have the excuse of a distracting riot/building invasion going on! I do like to think that Simone might have been kept a bit more effectively if she had been, say, on the top floor of the USA’s equivalent national security establishment, and not…

True...and what a convincing argument he offered! If they aren’t convinced by the cherry-on-top “but whatever,” time to demonize them, amirite?

He’s your President too. Suffer. ;)

So to summarize your position, “I want television to depict racism, but am strongly racist about who I want to be hired to create it.”

Winner: hawkstwelve. -100 wokeness points for Noisy Pip. [I hope this elicits a four-paragraph response, supporting the multiple previous posts to the extent that she doesn’t care what anyone thinks or whether they agree.]

They explicitly told the hacker guy to edit the footage together to make things look bad. I can’t believe, even in a universe where he’s been established as an incompetent coward, he wouldn’t think to edit around any footage of American operatives on the ground in Russia while putting that together.

It’s a fair point…

Seems like you’re doing recaps instead of reviews now.

“I can’t imagine how he would get passed over for an Emmy nomination again if he submits this episode.”

It seems increasingly wrong for this show to consider submitting as a comedy again, based on the content of this season overall—but I don’t imagine it would successfully compete in the drama categories.

Ford seems to have built Bernard differently, and monkeyed with programming at multiple levels. I can accept there’s some reason his nature might not be immediately evident to the various authorities he is dealing with, although I do hope they make the effort of an on-screen explanation.