So, Aunt Lydia went from has-been fuck-up forced into mercy retirement to Big Boss of all Aunts, including those who were forcing her into retirement a couple episodes ago? And all thanks to the maneuvering of a formerly disgraced commander who was in turn this close to be executed as a traitor?

I was about to write the same things. Isn’t Gilead a fascist regime with an obsession for control? All those Eyes and Guardians, V for Vendetta-like? And then Nick just go called on his phone, “Hey man, what’s up. Listen, would you like to come to Canada to meet June & possibly your daughter? You would? Terrific. How d…

I’m upset that I’m not enjoying this season the same way everyone else seems to be. The show has broken so many of the rules of the world it so masterfully created in the first two seasons (I’m even a s3 apologist), but now it’s gone too far. The only characters who have sensical arcs, and whose motivations seem to…

WHAT THE FUCK. YOU CAN JUST CALL SOMEONE IN GILEAD? ON A LAND LINE? I thought it was supposed to be as locked down as North Korea!

Are we really not going to talk about how June lies to Luke about Hannah’s status toward them as parents just to make him feel less guilty?!?!?!?!  

The fucking worldbuilding on this show...

I wonder if they had June rape Luke as the start of why they’ll ultimately break up and June and Nick end up together (which is totes going to happen). I can see them having June starting to hit rock bottom here, then get therapy and help and start getting back to a healthy state, and then her not being able to be…

I mean, that article was 100% an advertorial. It’s exactly the sort of article The Ringer used to run a lot when they were tied to HBO.

In an interview at Harper’s Bazaar, showrunner Bruce Miller said “what ends up being probably 165 children” were saved.

They’re close to Boston. That airfield could be Pease AFB- it’s big enough to land Air Force One.

In an interview at Harper’s Bazaar, showrunner Bruce Miller said “what ends up being probably 165 children” were saved. That’s a lot, praise be to the Marthas and Handmaids who sacrificed to save them. This finale saved the season for me.

I really thought for a minute there Janine was going to be the one to go be the distraction (at the cost of her life).

It seems implausible to me that Bradly Whitford would live through this (how could they have pulled it off without high-level help/his blind eye) but also - I really want him to be back next season.…

Background: The book that Joseph Lawrence is reading aloud is “Treasure Island.” He’s on Chapter 32 - depending on the edition, he’s more than 100 pages in already.

Overall a very satisfying finale.

Someone suggested “Nichole” was for June to distance herself from the baby enough to let her go, but I saw it as an (undeserved) concession to Serena for being non-awful for once. But I don’t think the name will put the baby in danger, because she’ll likely be in Canada before people start looking for her.

Was “call her Nichole” not supposed to sound like some sort of Stockholm Syndrome madness? I don’t get it. Serena quite recently helped violently rape June. She has shown her extreme cruelty. She has beaten her. Yeah, she was un-shitty for a few moments to relinquish the (someone else’s!) baby, but she doesn’t deserve…

I was hoping Bradley Whitford would be returning.  That’s great news.  I too was wondering if June might end up with him, not sure how that would work, but I don’t think I can bear another season of her living with the Waterfords.  It seems like the show has really written itself in a corner.  How are the Waterfords…

Reminded me of mid-series LOST. Once they get off the island, someone always wanted to go back. “We have to go back to the island!” I was always, “Why? You got off! Help the people there from afar now!”

Male or female, it takes a certain mindset to be able to enjoy something like knitting. The absence of this contemplative, meditative mindset is more typic to action-adventure characters.

8 more season of bleakness? Oh please, God, no.