Oh man this was like a homecoming. I missed Dev in my life.

I honestly find Show!Luke, to borrow your nomenclature, asking June if she and Moira ever hooked up as part of his flirtation much grosser than Book!Luke trying to get laid on the night all the women lose their jobs and bank accounts. Unless I'm misremembering some detail there, which is entirely possible, some…

Why do you care?

You know middle schoolers?

Blame that on the writing, not on the use of a singluar they in general.

Oh wow that's amazing.

Problematic? In what way? I think it is a very realistically flawed college-aged kind of situation. I don't think it's accidentally sexist or anything like that. Is that what you're saying ….?

Me too!

I think it is largely to establish Offred as someone who doesn't really care about any concept of sisterhood between women until it affects her personally.

Yeah, it's an interesting idea to have a handmaid who is basically fine with the arrangement, if not a religious fanatic. But why do all the less educated-seeming, lower income handmaids have to be the ones who buy in? Feels like class snobbery..

I think she's part disgusted with Offred, mentally slutshaming her for going along with this arrangement, and partially jealous, although she would never admit it. Some part of her must recognize that she probably could have gotten pregnant this same way once upon a time and spared herself the humiliation of a…

Man I found that lunch scene completely opposite of sexy. Negative sexy. But I have never liked Luke much (going all the way back to when I first read the book at 14 and every time I've reread it since).

I have a mountain of sympathy for Serena Joy, but absolutely zero for the Commander. If he's bored or unsatisfied or unhappy then he deserves it. He created this terrible society.

I like that the show is delving a bit more into the fact that Luke was married when they met. I mean it isn't hidden in the book, but it is something about which she feels no guilt or remorse, something for her to roll her eyes about when Moira chastizes her for being complicit in another woman's pain. But that lunch…

Coco is my favorite character. But she is flawed. They all are. That's the point.

Her treatment of Reggie sucks. But she isn't the worst. Just like Coco and Troy, she's flawed.

I have no strong feelings about him either way. He just is.

That said, I don't hate Sam or anything. She's like … that friend everyone has who just sucks at relationships but great at friendships.

Not preachy at all. Delightful.

I have to say, I was quite frustrated with Sam here. We've seen that she's been putting Reggie off since freshman year, long before she met Gabe. But suddenly he's at the center of a crisis and she's drawn to somewhat reciprocating his feelings for the first time ever? Fuck that noise. I'm not invested in the…