She’s a fucking lunatic. She wraps her hand around June’s throat on one day and then on the next, she’s berating June for not contributing to a conversation.

It kind of struck me that I have a sweater I wear all the time that looks just like the ones they wear in the Colonies.

Given June’s despondence during this episode and the end of the previous, I thought she saw miscarriage/death as the best possible outcome: she blames herself for everything that happened to the other Handmaids and to Omar and his family, and feels like she deserves to die, but also like it couldn’t be worse than what…

Caitlin PenzeyMoog’s tweet has vanished! Oh no! Well, I saw The Leftovers so I know what must have been in that image. I definitely thought of Patti Levin when Aunt Lydia mentioned she used to smoke.

I think the wives probably just have a wider range of what they’re allowed to wear, as long as it’s in the right general color/style — Handmaids and Marthas (and, I guess, Aunts) have uniforms because they’re servants, while the wives are technically free women. IIRC the Econowives from a couple of weeks ago had minor…

I was afraid that one of the brides would be revealed to be June’s daughter before realizing that she’s way too young. But honestly the reveal of the child brides was terrifying. Only because this stuff has actually happened (and still does) in real life. My grandfather’s sister was married off in a similar fashion…

soylent green?

I really liked this bit, it did play like a fully realized character in a way that I enjoyed, but in any case I don’t think that whether or not teens watch SNL is the point. It’s older people *raises hand* laughing at stereotypical teenisms.

Boy, the Schumer hate has really fucking intensified since her first hosting gig. Honestly, she was fine. Not gut-bustlingly hilarious, but she held her own better than last time. And I don’t know why, but that “faux-Honey Boo Boo” voice she made while chanting “Lock her up!” gave me a bigger laugh than anything else.

Seems a little cold (or a little sweet, depending on how you look at it) for them to have Luke Null bring out his mother for what’s looking like his second-to-last show.

The Quran was a nice touch, but I’m not sure how they’re really going to address racism in this world. Other than that it seems like everyone in charge is white. I don’t think we’ve seen a non-white commander or commander’s wife yet. What I’d find hard to explain, then, is, if Gilead is also an explicitly racist…

Handmaids are assigned to high powered people, so all the commanders etc. They are fertile but they also have to have committed some kind of transgression in the eye of Gilead. In June’s case she’s an adulteress.

God, I wanted to scream at the screen pretty much this entire episode. Every time June casually hung out near a window in broad daylight my brain was just !!!!!!

Yeah, I was stunned for a moment. It’s something I hadn’t even considered (having to be a closet Muslim in a Christian regime). Man, this show is beautiful and really fucking depressing.

VERY SPOILERY THOUGHTS. I just finished the ep moments ago and here’s my take. We get a window into June’s sad version of entitlement. At every turn, she disregards the people who are risking their lives for her. As she tries to escape, she can’t see the visual clues that would help her ***SPOILER***(have the shoulder…

That moment when June found the Koran under their bed was poignant. The show doesn’t often surprise me (in fairness, I have read the book), but that took me aback. It was also beautifully shot.

For me, most of the suspense of that final sequence came from June’s internal conflict- I was absolutely terrified she wouldn’t be able to make herself get on the plane. It was a lovely moment of (imagined) grace between June and her mom and Hannah, and I thought the brief moment of giddy solidarity between June and…

I was worried about the Muslim family. Did they get caught? Were they in trouble? Why didn’t they come home?

I feel especially gutted after watching this episode. I suppose I should have expected that June would be caught and brought back to Gilead - but silly me, I thought maybe she’d make it and the rest of the show would be about her trying to find a way to get her daughter back or something. Are they going to chain her…

Didn’t think Philip would go full treason, but there we are.