I don’t see how June could be a handmaid anywhere again. She “kidnapped” a Gilead child, and she ran away after leaving a giant taunting message scratched into the bedroom wall. If she’s just a handmaid again after doing all that, it makes no sense.

This seems to be a show about how really horrific things happen to anyone who resists...except June. (Obviously her very situation is already horrific but I think we can all agree others have suffered much more dire consequences.)

“That would be a loss, and a shame, but every moment of flimsy, broad-strokes characterization and triumph divorced from the realities of this world diminishes what’s made The Handmaid’s Tale so vital and relevant.”

I don’t really understand how June has a significantly better chance of getting Hannah out while staying in Gilead, than she does by being safely in Canada, advocating for action. Yeah, she has sheer proximity to her advantage, but she doesn’t know where Hannah is, how connected her Martha is, or how to actually get…

Well that was a frustrating episode. I was ready to give it an A until the ending.

Oh, I know. I was just more optimistic before he asked her if she was rapeable again (you saw it in Emily’s face, too). Hopefully he was just trying to be empathetic. It’d be a nice change of pace if a commander were a decent guy. Maybe he’s seen the terrible things he’s done and wants to atone. He knows so much about…

Bradley Whitford is awesome! That is all.

I think the whole point of Waterford is that there really isn’t a lot there. He’s a relatively simple but also very insecure dude who thrives in Gilead’s system because it fairly easy to understand rules that put him in a place of power, and especially how it gives him leverage over the wife he knows is more…

It’s possible, of course, that Whitford (and Julie Dretzin, who plays Eleanor Lawrence) will return next year, but if that’s not to be—and I suspect it isn’t—it will mean that these fascinating scenes are a mismatch, and not a new window through which to peer. That would be a shame.

Are you? Did you WATCH the episode? The explanation given over the whole episode in bits and pieces was that Offred and Nick were out for a drive and ran into overzealous guardians who didn’t notice Offred, who ended up being found by neighbors after she gave birth. That’s why Offred is in such high demand, because…

More and more with each episode, this show behaves as if the writers have no idea what to do with the amount of episodes they were given. The result is still good, Gilead is still one of the most horrifying distopyas ever, all technical sides are great - but it does feel wheel-spinning.

I think Fiennes is great. He played the role ambiguously at first, when they thought there might only be one season. I remember the possible sympathy in his character, and then the horror of realizing what kind of self-deluded monster he was. Whitford is still in that ambiguous phase, when they don’t have to make him…

This season has just been filled with high stakes that go nowhere.

For some reason, Commander Lawrence aka fascist Bradley Whitford looks like Jordan Peterson.

I’m 100% on Team David. I didn’t like the choice of the assault angle, but I’m choosing to believe that everyone else is deluded more than likely by the Shadow King.

I think you’re jumping to a conclusion on the sexual assault. The mouse told Syd something.

He read a bit from Ephesians 5:22, then he read a small bit from 1 Peter 3:7, and lastly, quoted 1 John 1:9.
Cherry-picking at its finest.

She might have been doing just that (the smiling because of the wedge) but it struck me more as what happens when you are so close to something and also on the edge of an angry, bitter, cynical despair, and it all falls apart, because of course it does. There is no escape. What was she thinking? (that kind of smile)…

I think they implied that baby Angela’s “parents” don’t spend that much time with her and get pissed at her for doing normal baby things, so maybe part of that is because of borderline neglect.

Luke being already married is part of the book - it’s the ostensible reason Luke and June’s marriage is dissolved and their child seized by the state.