She says "they" traipsed mud into the house, which to Canadian me (and probably to a British person) means that who ever "they" are had to come in in an emergency situation, without time to remove their very dirty shoes.

I feel like the magazine itself was an insult. "Here is the trivial shit you care about, aren't I gracious?" The only thing she's been allowed to read is something so basic and unimportant. It's like he thinks the stuff she misses about the old world is vanity, and sex. He misses the point of her unhappiness, or more…

I understand completely, it seemed silly and weird on first listen to me. But the agony in her voice at the climax hit hard, and it latched on forever from that moment. I don't know how she does it, but a song about laundry is the most effecting thing I've heard.

Really? I think it's heartbreaking, not sinister. Clearly about grief in the immediate aftermath of a death, but I don't get the sense that it might have been a violent one.

I watched this a couple times and the opening credits always got me so excited! But then the show started, and it didn't live up to the kind of intriguing world it hinted at.

What world do you live in where Islam gets a pass on anything? Have you seen the news lately? Or anytime in the last 30 years?

This is what I read from the scene too. I took that scene as a gracious act.

FGM is a pre-Islamic ritual in Africa and takes place in non-Islamic communities as well.

I've been under the impression the creators have said they wouldn't be addressing race at all, because something along the lines of "if you show racism, how does that make it different from a racist show." Which is so complicated that I barely unravel it in my mind.

I think you're referring to the subway platform? That's for sure Toronto. It's a subway stop that's out of commission and has a load of urban legends about it, and has had more movies/tv shows filmed in it than you can shake a stick at:

It is such a huge suspension of disbelief the creators have asked us to do. You read comments on here and everyone is expecting the show to deal with these issues. And I guess they just will not.

There was a black man in subway station wearing a dark suit, which in this show indicates a higher up status. Additionally there were several black men in the photos of couples with the "surrogate" babies - I believe they've indicated that only commanders get Handmaids, at least that's implied during the ceremony…

The puritan symmetry is definitely worth setting it in Boston/Cambridge, but they're not doing a great job of transporting us there.

That must so strange! I've been to Boston a bunch of times and they're not doing a great job of making Toronto look like it. When they stick in the neighbourhoods with Victorian houses you can kind of believe it, but the architecture in the downtown areas of our cities are so different. They should have restricted…

Any other Torontonians struggling to suspend disbelief when they use such GLARINGLY obvious Toronto landmarks? The streetcar in the background of the cafe scene should have been easy enough to edit out, and they choose the second most associated landmark next to the CN tower, using city hall (the shape of it is our…

They did get married in Indiana so……

I mean, it also includes 5 sit down meals, park tickets, a two night stay, and all that extra resort based entertainment.

I'm not opposed to contemporary music in period dramas, but to go so heavy on it feels too extra.

I wish they would knock it off with the heavy electric guitar. We GET IT, the past is not some genteel preserved snow globe of romance and innocence, it's ~real~ and ~gritty~ and ~relatable~

I was a weird-ass child. The first ~tape~ I ever picked out for myself was the Phantom of the Opera soundtrack. Ghetto Superstar was just my first personal CD choice after my parents got me a 5(!) disc-changing boombox for Christmas.