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Berry Jenkins directed an episode?!?!??! OMG, I am not going to get anything productive done today

That's almost exactly what Scandal is actually like.

In a school where undergraduate TAs exist, they don't really have enough authority to have an ethical violation for something like this.

Having only seen the first episode it seems somewhere between direct sequel and reintroduction. Which is probably pretty normal for a film to television adaptation.

Peter Berg executive produced Friday Night Lights the show after directing the film. But I don't know how involved he was. Also both show and film were based on a book by a different person entirely, so it's probably a bad example.

Anyone who is a fan of snappy, insightful writing and a great eye behind the camera should be tuning in.

FWIW, Coco was just as much a protagonist of the film as Sam. I'm assuming the show will treat her as such, too.

I haven't seen past this episode, but as much as I adore Tessa Thompson, Coco was definitely the breakout character from the film, especially due to an outstanding performance by Teyonah Parris.

I've only watched the pilot and while I definitely thought it was strong and definitely am already pretty heavily invested in the unfolding plot, I do feel like it's lost a little of the fast-paced zing of the movie, particularly visually speaking. That could be just the need for heavy exposition up front to bring…

To be perfectly honest, I've always found it darkly hilarious. Part of the book's fearlessness is it's ability to find pitch black tragi-comedy in the wives' frequently enthusiastic participation in their own erasure.

My impression was that the Japanese group was some kind of a trade delegation who were out on a tour as part of their official visit, sort of an "no, see, it's all fine, everyone is happy and you should definitely do business with us" kind of thing.

Wtf how did this end up here? Disqus!!!

Moone Boy forever!

In the book Offred has a line about how despite being unbelievably horrible, the Aunt's probably really do believe they are equipping the Handmaids to survive in Gilead. But show Aunt Lydia is a pure sadist.

I think Serena Joy does consider a miscarriage a possibility. But she takes out her rage and, most importantly her humiliation, on Offred, because that's whom she has power over.

As Serena Joy said, "she's done it before." But the wives are playacting, just like in the labor scene.

Haha!

True. But in that case what was he warning Offred about? If he thought she was a "gender traitor" too, then he knew there would be no saving her.

I definitely have always read it in my head as ahf. It's supposed to be a slow burn realization for sure. It was interesting hearing Serena Joy refer to the commander as Fred in this episode.