Ding ding ding! He corrected it, as if we didn’t see it already, the ignorant fool.

Your mission is to befriend her and turn her to our side (if she isn’t already). Good luck, soldier.

I watched Prometheus in theatres when pregnant with my second child. My first was born by C-section during which the anesthetic failed and I cod feel the whole thing. So that scene played somewhere between body horror and body comedy for me (body comedy, because so unrealistic).

Yes. Though it seems like a terrible idea to go on late night television and talk about said stalker/unhealthily starstruck ex-date. First rule of I-Have-Been-Stalked Club: “Don’t talk about being stalked”.

That was supposed to be “best-paying” (not “best-pocket”) but autocorrect.

I agree, so far the writing seems...not always well thought out or planned.

I have had the same thoughts, but then I remember that so much of our technology is in truth rather fragile. If the Gileadeans secured their power by destroying systems used by resistors, how difficult would it be for them to rebuild those systems later for their own purposes? And if trade networks have fallen apart…

You’re not wrong. But if the last few months have taught me anything, they’ve taught me that the collective outrage of the majority does not necessarily out-power the guns and indifference of an oppressive minority.

The youthful casting of the Commander and Serena Joy is mystifying so far. What is the point, except to remind us that young people can be oppressive bastards, too?

I don’t remember it being outright bad so much as unnecessary. The book was compelling mostly because we were reading it from Offred’s point of view, but without voiceover narration we don’t hear her PoV. The new series is benefitting from the narration, as well as its episodic structure and the timing. (In 2017…

Is the new casting really so Hollywood compared to the 90s movie? Elizabeth Moss is if anything less glamorous than Natasha Richardson (may she RIP). The other new Handmaids all have an appealingly ordinary look and demeanor to them. New Nick is less prettyboy than young Aiden Quinn. Faye Dunnaway and Robert Duvall,…

This goes doubly for women, locked out of the best-pocket jobs both before and after reaching “a certain age” (but especially after).

Alternatively how much more of a Freak or Geek *are* you if you’ve never seen Freaks and Geeks? Like what if your parents were so strict with the television limits that you weren’t allowed during your dorky youth to see it, but you totally want to watch it now as it looks pretty good? *Asking for a friend

I don’t know her either but already I like her and want to see her work. Does the <I don’t know her gif> also work for these situations or is strictly for rejection scenarios?

Surely that bandana is the equivalent of 45's floppy, sloppy tie...

I can see it being a problem but it seems like the Gileads have just so many other problems on their hands affecting the genetic health of the next generations... My best guess is that they are a society that has rejected science for extreme Christian patriarchy​ explanations of natural phenomena e.g. we hear Aunt…

Presumably one of the challenges in adapting the 1985 book to a 2017 miniseries is that technology has changed so much. Paternity testing, ultrasound technology, in utero genetic screening. So far the series seems to be implying that the Gileadeans use these technologies sparingly, so perhaps it’s a society that has…

Bat bites are surprisingly tiny and often mistaken for insect/arthropod bites. I.e. They are easy to​ miss!

The ruling class gets Handmaids if their wives are believed to be infertile; otherwise their wives are expected to breed. The Econowives of the lower castes may or may not be fertile, as others have pointed out. Moreover the book implies that Gilead is a society with food shortages and other resource issues so it’s…

Just curious, but why would inbreeding would be a concern when the population is, while in decline, still diverse enough that literal strangers are being assigned as Handmaids? Granted there is the fertility problem but that is not the same as a population bottleneck event... In the book the Gileadeans destroy…