Hm, I thought the combination of homemade missing flyers and American flags was meant specifically to invoke 9/11.

Fair enough. I think part of it is that we're only seeing like, 50-60, because stuff before that just isn't as interesting/filmable. A violent takeover of the government and public executions are part of the world of the book, and the "choice" Offred had was never a real choice either. In the show, too, they are…

But the book has a (deliberately) limited view of the larger sociopolitical world of Gilead, and the show doesn't. In the show, fertile women are tagged and treated as a trade-able resource. It makes sense that Gilead's worldview would be enforced brutally, it's not like extremist religious cults take a "live and let…

How does Last Week Tonight pick their topics, does anyone know? I've been waiting for the episode on the adjunct/gradjunct crisis in higher ed since the show started, and Yale grad students are literally hunger striking right now, so it might be timely.

I thought Blake Lively was there because she's friends with Haim? I don't know why I think that, surely not everyone at Taylor Swift's parties hangs out in real life.

Yeah, I think McCarthy is one of like, 3 stars bankable enough to release movies that make most of their money in middle America?

The actress was great on Call the Midwife, too (playing a fairly similar character)!

In the words of semiotician and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin, "my mouth is filled with the words of others." Speech is, by nature, quotation, so if the native language of the internet is the meme, the most efficient and contextually appropriate response is going to be the meme.

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Having now re-familiarized myself with the entire ouevre of "Tom Ellis sings in TV things" on YouTube, I retract my original question ;)

So… Coleman is the new Chet?

When Drogon just took off I yelled at my tv, "THAT DRAGON COULD BE USEFUL." Can't they just re-use previously animated footage of the dragon, if he's not doing anything special? I promise viewers don't remember every head tilt of every dragon.

"Not even one part of that is accurate."<— BRB making a gif of this for many future conversations about paleocrossfitevopsych.

In case we forgot? Honestly, they don't need to have a conversation to keep things moving. They could just direct the actors to, like, look at each other and occasionally touch. Ships have been launched on less!(see: this week's Game of Thrones)

I thought Diana somehow used her witch powers to make him win, since she was asking him about it.

We're a succulent family now.

When has this show ever been subtle? If they get together (which they obviously SHOULD) I assume their makeouts will be the one single thing saving humanity from destruction.

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I spent two thirds of this episode worrying about Jimmy getting his deposit back on that Daenerys costume.