Low point of the series, for sure.

Troy is a fascinating character, but I was frustrated by the way his affair with Neika treated her less as a person and more as a plot device to get him in a place where he has to anger Sam and the BSU by giving Kurt a "social pardon." She has no real characterization other than to get Troy in the wrong place at the…

The tearing down of churches is new to the show, so I can't offer any specific answers on that. However in both book and show the Gilead regime is very, very anti-Catholic (there's a bit in the book about forcing priests and nuns to convert and nuns to become handmaids). It's also very anti-Quaker (due to the sect's…

Me neither. But forseeing the twists and turns in the BrBaverse has never been anywhere near my forte.

Exactly.

I loved the wind chimes ringing when Hector was out there by himself at the end of that scene. Never gets old.

Sob! I know it's coming, but that isn't going to make it hurt any less.

I'm glad I'm not the only one whose brain went there.

Hi, mattepntr!!

I wouldn't want it to be like this every time. But we always get a Mike heavy couple of episodes each season. This served that same purpose.

Chuck and Walt are tied for most enraging in my book. The Nazis are more evil, but they also don't make me as furious, because you expect it.

I definitely felt some degree of safety in knowing the "future" on this show—LPH of BB doesn't seem like a place where a mass killing went down—but that didn't stop it from being crazy intense.

I think Jimmy would do everything in his power to keep Kim out of jail. But everything in his power might fail.

I was just fucking around. Although I have heard it both ways.

I was mostly just fucking around. I have heard it both ways, but since I don't actually drink gin it probably won't ever come up.

Well part of why the timeline is difficult is that the story probably takes place about nowish, but in an alternate reality that started differing from our reality in probably the mid-70s. That makes it a bit confusing to update to the present since it id essentially set in a version of the present as presented by a…

Fertility treatment and artificial insemination are banned by Gilead for being un-Christian. At least in the book. It is explicitly stated.

You realize this is fiction, right? And that the book was written in the 80s?

The penn-is mightier than the sword.

I prefer the fever of the sausage.