He's got my vote!

There's a fascinating layer to that conflict when you see that SJ is the reason Fred is even a part of the Commanders level - that she was more involved in creating this world than he was, she was more of a true believer in what they were doing, and now she has been relegated to nothing while he gets the credit and…

Without those two specific actors pulling their parts off so so well, Jacqueline's backstory would be impossible to sit through. But they're both excellent.

Kudrow really 100% sold the "Everyone tears your life apart when your kid disappears" stuff. That yeah, she wasn't a great or even particularly good mom. She was a teenager who got knocked up and left to figure it out on her own and she did a bad job. But that didn't mean losing her kid wasn't still the worst thing…

I love that actor, but yes, Kimmy's stepdad has been basically the least enjoyable character in the series - even Kymmi, who I started out loathing far more, kind of improved by her last appearance.

They don't do enough to make it clear that Gilead exists in an alternate version of our history, it's not our future. In Atwood's book, it's clear that things branch off sometime around the early sixties with the fertility crisis, and the resulting religious fervor comes from there. There's also a pretty heavy…

By the time fertility had dropped just double digits whole governments would be mobilizing to do WHATEVER IT TOOK. The showrunners' choice to gloss over IVF while also making this global ruins the internal logic, for me.

Hey, Marlin at least let Nemo out of the anemone to go to school!

I mean, yes - we could all see on the surface how bad this was going to be. People largely don't change their personality much in their elder years and his has been a disaster from the start. He telegraphed every step of the way how awful he would be.

If Trump had been even remotely fit for the position, this would have been good, sensible advice. Dave Chappelle could not have known how utterly unfit, mentally and physically, Trump would be for the presidency.

The Wife role is essentially the Southern Plantation mistress of old, minus the ability to read/do the accounting for the household. I imagine it would be tremendously boring, since a lot of what Southern Plantation women DID was do the books and read and whatnot.

I think Econowives aren't assigned if they were already married prior to the takeover, but are assigned afterward. Gilead is a cult - one of the things cults ALWAYS do is start taking control over who is paired up for marriage, when, and how.

This made me think of Rick Moranis and the way he just dropped his Hollywood career entirely when his wife died, to stay with his kids and raise them in her absence. I can't imagine Jim without Jeannie. I'm glad to hear she came through the surgery okay and I was so shocked to hear about her tumor.

It's not really set in the future, but an alternate present.

The fundies who create Gilead are Protestant offshoots.

I think they represent the idea that Gilead was already in motion by the time June and Luke meet. The plans were already laid, and everyone was just in a holding pattern and did n't know it yet.

It's Lindsey Graham's accent whenever he tries to sound "folksy".

Yes. Lincoln refused to even consider changing the flag because to do so would have been a powerful symbolic acceptance of secession. Lincoln did not see the secessions as valid.

The Technical Boy update reveal is the first time (other than Shadow's EXCELLENT casting) where I thought, "Whoever is doing this knows EXACTLY how to do it right."

He went to rehab during one season of Frasier - they wrote him out for an episode while he spent time in an inpatient facility. His alcohol problems really waxed and waned all through his television career.