Like in a Stephen King book, where usually adults/most people "know" something is off/wrong with Derry, but just put blinders on or live in willful denial to make things easier and more peaceful - leaving those who are willing to acknowledge supernatural things and evil to fight it out by themselves.

That Janey-E is a hell of a tough broad. I didn't like her at first but she is really growing on me.

Read up on the Cultural Revolution in Iran in the 70's. Women who went to college at 20 were unable to control a single thing by 30.

Well, look at the security and liberty we gave up post 9/11 in order to feel "safe". Then imagine if no one's baby lived and all the plants were dying and then Islamic extremists destroyed the ENTIRE Congress and POTUS (as in Atwood's book, although it's made pretty clear the extremists were just Gilead wearing a…

Yeah, that whole scene just rang weird for me. I think it probably would have played better if it had gone a bit faster, but all the threat and menace of it had kind of deflated for me before he ever finished the coin trick.

I think it could have been exploitative - shocking violence against our most vulnerable just for the sake of it - except for Stanton's stepping forward. Even if he had just stood there and watched it, it wuld have felt voyeuristic.

I actually adore that final episode. I thought having us clearly witness that Dale did not really win at all, that sometimes the good guys lose through no fault of their own, was an incredible hammer-smashing-down of a conclusion to a show where it was the darkness that lurks in us all that was always the real villain.

I'm not entirely sure he's OF this world.

It was such a hard scene for me to watch. But still, Harry Dean Stanton's Carl being the only one to walk up to her and hold onto her while she cried - when she is CLEARLY looking everywhere trying to find someone to help - was deeply sweet. The gruff old trailer park manager/owner is the only person, out of all these…

Yeah, that suit was a sign that Dale is starting to come back to himself, I'm sure of it. Before he wore Dougie's ill-fitting clothes and didn't seem aware that he could do something else. Then he shows up in a black suit with his hair slicked and you can almost see Dale Cooper struggling to reassert himself.

0. That scene with the mom and her kid… I cried so hard I had to stop watching. Then I went and stood in my kids' rooms and just watched each of them breathe for a couple of minutes. Then I cam eout and cried some more. Then when I calmed down I watched the rest of the episode. That was brutal and cruel and awful.…

It's largely a matter of A. translation issues and B. metaphor-heavy poetic language that is used a LOT on the Old Testament, essentially because much of the OT was largely oral history passed down from person to person for a long time before it was ever written.

I'm pretty sure she had a single line of dialogue in the original series.

It's less so than it seems. That's not exactly what happens.

I wouldn't say "won" so much as "the propoganda we receive from Gilead is working very hard to make it seem that way". I do think the lack of news broadcasts is definitely something I miss. I want to see the occasional television screen (sans words, of course, so now scrolling bar the bottom) with talking heads…

Yeah, their "problem" with Janine isn't illicit sexual pleasure, but the fact that she loves her baby too much to give it away.

That would be a stretch, even for Twin Peaks' soap-opera themes. I think he's probably Jerry's son or Audrey/Evil!Coop's son.

Ratings? It's been responsible for the largest increase in subscribers in Showtime's history. They're not worried about individual episode ratings. Showtime is way more interested in money.

I can actually answer a couple questions - only "fallen" women are chosen to be Handmaid's, although Gilead's theocracy is strict enough that most women could be considered "fallen" by their standards.

The idea behind it isn't that she's holding her down/forcing her to stay still, but rather that it places the Handmaid in the general position of the Wife's uterus/womb, therefore creating of the Handmaid a sort of "independent womb" for the Commander to impregnate.