Oh my god that was amazing.

Why the fuck would they choose Dan. I mean, I know Catherine doesn't have a lot of positive male role models, but someone has got to be better than Dan.

Yeah I'm enjoying the hell out of this season, too. I was just thinking earlier tonight about how great it is that a show has depicted its characters with such thoroughness that we no longer even need to see them together to understand and experience the full spectrum of humiliation and pain that Veep excells at so…

The fever of the sausage. Never, ever change Minna. Never.

Pressing the reset button is baked right into the show's DNA. I wouldn't love it as much if it weren't. The way they can do it over and over and still feel both tense and fresh is nothing short of astounding writing.

The writing on this show is so fucking good. The way they manage over and over and over again to bring the PP team to the brink of failure and then grant them last-second reprieves, both usually in completely unanticipated and always hilarious ways is just … I love it so much.

I think the distance would prevent it. There are Gilead controlled agricultural areas and Gilead managed toxic wastelands and patches of fighting all between Boston, where Offred lives, and Mexico. And Florida is a hotbed of fighting, I believe. Canada makes a lot more sense. But maybe it is the runaway destination of…

Every other day. Second ep is up now.

Movie vs. show difference?

I mean, college journalism is often kind of a joke, especially secondary or alternative papers, so I'm trying to cut it some slack and just enjoy the newspaper plots. But, yeah, Lionel is a terrible journalist.

I was highly amused to see the return of Becca and Connor (and friend) at the coffeeshop open mic. On another site I read, the reviewer didn't catch that it was the same couple.
But that really enhances the humor.

I loved movie Lionel's afro, but I prefer show Lionel with a close cut. His glasses frame his face very fetchingly with the short hair, imho.

I personally loved the Windex line. I am a big fan of when multiple characters who don't know each other or have not recently interacted deploy the same witicism. 30 Rock did this a ton and I and ways liked it.

On the show he isn't so far as I can tell (although these characters spend almost no time in class). But in the film he definitely does.

It is supposed to leave questions and we are supposed to figure it out slowly. You've already been given way more information than the reader gets until more than halfway into the book.

Well part of the book's brilliance is that we only know what Offred personally knows. And she was pretty selfishly consumed with her own shit and didn't pay much attention to the news until it was too late. Then afterward, as a handmaid, she has no access to information and is pretty depressed and catatonic to boot.…

A lot of them a misogynists who like seeing women suffer. Others too afraid to resist on someone else's behalf.

The book mentions that there is an active Save the Women abolitionist style movement in the UK. Japan and the Arab countries are trading partners of Gilead. Canada disapproves but is afraid of Gilead and actually sometimes extradites escapees, which is why it is only a quick stop on the way to Europe.

Oh man, I didn't know the Madaddam miniseries got dropped. What is with HBO and failed literary adaptations?

The book definitely presents a society that had been gradually getting more and more conservative even before the government takeover. Offred notes that the dorm she and Moira lived in had once been coed but had gone to women only by the time she started college.