"'Hey Jughead, didja hear? The Supreme Court reversed — ' awwww…"

Pope 2: The Popening

I have to admit that any time Data on Star Trek TNG flips his thumbnail up I have to look away from the screen.

That's what I came in to mention. That movie was required viewing in one of my college classes and it was not a good time for my stomach.

I have a long list of movies that have made me motion-sick but I think the one I had the most trouble with was Apollo 13. Which I liked fine, on a content level! But I was so nauseated the whole time.

I have to admit I giggled when Offred mentioned Anthropologie, which is if anything even more in keeping with that particular kind of upper-middle-class hipster lifestyle than Nordstrom!

I wanted to kick him right in his questionably-functioning nuts. What a fucking tool.

That scene pretty much does lay out Trump's platform: bombing, oil theft, decapitation of teachers, and toilet-based shenanigans…

Ooh, he card read good!

Hey, at least Viagra will still be covered!

When I watched last night's episode the first ad before the show started was for puppy food and I was like AWRIGHT, HANG ONTO THAT.

Hannah is definitely a very contemporary kid name — you wouldn't have seen it much in 1985, so it's definitely in keeping with the not-too-distant future feel of the series.

In the book it's mentioned that some men have "Econowives" who function as Wives, Handmaids, and Marthas (they wear striped clothes to indicate this), so basically retro-traditionalist marriages as most people would think of them today only creepier and grosser because it's Gilead and creepy and gross is what they do.…

That scene creeped me out so hard, I think largely because it took the normal awkwardness of gynecologist visits, because having people chatter at you about random stuff while they're poking around in your junk is just unavoidably uncomfortable, and only had to twist it that little bit to make it really threatening.

No, definitely not — I imagine that if the dominionist dystopia thing ever happened the Catholics would go right under the bus, but there's a sort of uneasy political alliance between them these days based on opposition to LBGT rights and abortion, and in some cases the evangelical side has actually moved closer to…

The Catholic Church is actually opposed to IVF, in fact — the rationale for it is that just like it's opposed to sex that isn't at least potentially procrative it also doesn't like procreation that doesn't involve sex (unless you count obtaining the sperm samples but the Church doesn't like that either), especially if…

Slow down, Tubby! You're not on the moon yet!

Max Minghella (Nick) is half-Asian — his mother is Chinese.

I have a Ph.D. so I kind of twitched a bit at the part about college professors being sent to the colonies, but I failed at actually being a college professor so maybe I'd be a Martha, idk. Not a happy thought no matter what, though.

There are definitely references to dissident Christians — in both the show and the book, one of the bodies hanging on the wall is a Catholic priest, and the show also includes a scene where a Catholic church is being torn down.