Yes! Gilead in the book was vague and opaque, the way Big Brother is in 1984. The characters should be endlessly paranoid, who knows who's watching, who knows who will report you.

I don't think a refugee experience for an educated American in Canada would be similar at all.

I feel quite let down by the back half of the series.

"That! That's me, that!"

I latched on to David Bowie as a kid too. Labyrinth was so influential and I didn't realize what obsessed me so much until I was a little older and found my mom's Bowie records, and was enamored with the album art (and songs of course.) Who was this human? Was it man or woman? Was he both? Did it matter? 10 year old…

I love the compositions too! "Sarah" is a particular favourite. It suits the film so well, slightly spooky, kind of hopeful, strange and other-worldly, but slightly pretty. It definetely belongs to a certain era, but that's not necessary a bad thing.

It was pretty good back in 2006. But there's been so much good prestige TV since then, it will feel like a low end cable tv show. The same way special effects don't age well - once you've seen how good something can be it's hard to settle for less.

I can't find it now, but I know Atwood has said she doesn't have any respect for Offred, calling her cowardly and explicitly stating she is not a heroine.

Book Offred is not someone we are suppose to admire or like or believe or think knows best. She's not the heroine. We are suppose to find her naive, selfish and perhaps even stupid. The TV show gives her a lot more heroic qualities, but the book is pretty clear that she's not a good person.

I think this is kind of the point. Offred is suppose to be an unlikeable lead, I guess having Moss in the role and setting us up to cheer along her little victories is taking away that important aspect from the book. She was dumb and naive and thought "it" could never happen to people like her. She didn't care enough…

This was one of the most stressful movies I've seen. Arlo really seemed like a little child and I felt genuine fear for him for most the running time. He kept getting hurt over and over in ways that seemed truly painful and not cartoonish - he had cuts and scratches and bruises (the bruises I think were the worst…

Just wondering, what is it that makes it "suck" in your opinion?

This was just a downright boring episode. Such an unnecessary amount of filler, so obvious where it was leading, that you could be forgiven for skipping through most of it. And god, so much exposition! That church scene was one big eyeroll.

You all keep calling it a tree, but I right away thought "human nervous system" and I felt fairly confident that's what the implication was, especially with the rolling electrical sparks.

This is mainly because those two eras saw a huge increase in woman entering the work force. I guess they hoped they'd get taken a little more seriously if they resembled a male silhouette.

What is happening in this 100 people's lives that they were willing to do this?

I didn't know that joke was based on a real person on until this article.

Maybe she'll finally use her "poor mole woman" capital, and get herself a scholarship or goFundMe… or something.

Sigismondi directing? That explains the extremely out-of-place fast-forward technique from the tooth brushing scene. I did not appreciate that at all, it doesn't suite the tone of the show.

I'm assuming all the wives are valiumed or xanaxed 24/7. I would not be surprised if she had to heavily drug herself to sleep.