Terrible episode. Perhaps the writers were on vacation. They rob June of credibility, attempting (successfully) to put her and Aunt Lydia on identical moral footing, just after we find a Canada willing to engage politically with Gilead.  What a waste. Nick’s backstory, the whole Canada refugee experience, Serena's…

Now that you mention that the Martha’s are mostly black, I wonder if that’s so because more of the white women were able to get the hell out of Dodge because they had more means to do so.