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It really felt like that episode had about 15 minutes of useful, watchable content and a lot of wasted airtime. At least Naomi did the only thing she could do for Charlotte, which was give her up. And it was interesting to compare Serena's reaction to the tiny bag of baby supplies to how angry she was at the end of her baby shower for Holly's birth, when she actually slapped Rita while they were sorting through an enormous pile of gifts.

Yes, she is. The lack of lighting throughout the series finally served a useful point - it would have been quite difficult to incorporate a pregnancy into this season, and would. have made her choices to risk her life for the revolution more questionable. the fact that we have trouble seeing a lot of the scenes because of the lighting choices finally have some use.

Sorry - I didn't write my original post concisely. I should have said the question should be did Rose know how much danger she was putting Nick in by telling him to leave her side and go fight instead of writing if she knew how much danger she was putting him in by sending him on the plane. I don't believe there was any way for her to know that plane was specifically targeted. Her father was on that plane, and I am certain she would have saved him if she had known. We haven't seen much of Rose, and she's an interesting character - she knows her husband is in love with June, but she lives in a society with very few options even for daughters of commanders. And as a woman with a physical disability, she has even fewer options than most women in this society. She was in the hospital possibly as a result of the Mayday attack on the cake, so she knows they are active and is sending her husband out to try to fight the rebels at a time she knows they are targeting commanders. He's safe with her in the hospital, but she's encouraging him to leave. That could simply be because she wants revenge on the rebels, but Nick is a weak and thoughtless character, which led to his first wife running away and being killed. He hasn't been very discreet about his love for June - including getting into a public fistfight with Commander Lawrence over June's safety. That's really humiliating for his wife, so when she encourages him to do something dangerous I wonder about her motivations, but there's no indication she could possibly have had any idea how dangerous that flight would be. But Nick wasn't initially scheduled to be on that flight, probably since the other commanders assumed he'd be with his sick pregnant wife in the hospital. And he would have been safe there.

Naomi certainly can remember her life before Gilead, but remember that she is an awful, selfish judgmental person. Prior to Gilead, she would have been one of those awful women who went to church every week and judged everyone else. June was a handmaid because she married a divorced man (we learned she actually cheated with Luke when he was married, but in the book women who married men who were divorced prior to their meeting were subject to becoming handmaids if they were fertile. And the handmaid who blew up the new Rachel and Leah center was formerly a drug addicted prostitute. Others were selected based upon being gay, which Naomi may have had less of a problem with). She reminds me of when Rosalie Aprile was at a church diaper drive in the Sopranos and the priest noted that they had gotten mostly newborn diapers as donations, and that next year they should put a notice in the bulletin asking people to purchase larger sizes. Rosie Aprile said "they should be grateful for whatever they get. Nobody told them to have babies without husbands."

Elizabeth Moss directed this episode, so it is unsurprising that this episode ended on yet another infamous close up of her face while the plane dramatically explodes. Her magical protection allowed her to wander undetected all over what should have been the most secure airspace in history. Aside from that, I was glad to see Commander Lawrence have a chance to say goodby to poor Angela, a child who really needs to be rescued from Naomi. And that Serena betrayed her husband. She really needed June's mom to explain to her that it wasn't possible for a Commander to be a good man. Now that we've resolved Commander Wharton's character, a new question arises: did Rose know how much danger she was putting Nick in by sending him on that plane?

They didn't address this in the show. In the book, they said most of the Commanders were rendered sterile by experiments that went awry that they were planning on dropping on their enemies in foreign lands. The men weren't tested, and the women were blamed if they didn't get pregnant. In the book doctors and other men like Nick were the real fathers of many of the handmaid's babies.

I was sorry to learn that Joel's character believed he was damning humanity by saving Ellie. There were an options besides killing her to look into a cure. What about taking some of her blood or stem cells and studying it or trying to transfuse it? If she had a baby via artificial insemination with her consent, there would be umbilical cord cells that might be more effective in terms of discovering a cure. I get the fact that in this society, people need to die (like Eugene). But killing someone who might be more useful alive and might not even be helpful dead seems like a huge risk to take.

Years later, it could turn out that he was a copycat assailant who was trying to scare Dr. Stewart into having a relationship with him. They already did that with Marcia Gay Harden's character, but repeating a story won't be the worst thing they've done.

And in the Commander's households in this show and in the books, the Bible was kept under lock and key to make sure that only the Commander had access to the word of God. If this series were based on logic and reasoning, we could assume that the knives and gardening equipment and other potential weapons are also locked away (and given the fact that a handmaid tried to kill herself by swallowing Drano, one would assume they'd give some thought to these things.). If all potential weapons are under lock and key, then the handmaids would need the weapons distributed by the revolutionaries.

It would be hard to pick the worst thing Robyn has ever done, but right up there would have to be the talking head interview she gave before the restaurant scene: "We've had a fun day, but..." and I stared up at the screen and thought "and then you realized that you aren't on vacation but travelled here to bury your husband's son? Except she finished her sentence by saying "and then the rains came." And I screamed, "you aren't supposed to be on vacation" at my tv. You aren't supposed to notice the weather. Your husband's son just committed suicide and everyone else is suffering enormously right now. this is from the Bible as explained above, but a remarkably clever title given the fact that there were three sister wives and their children deeply grieving, and Kody and Robyn who thought they were on vacation (it would have been the world's most boring vacation, but now it got to be both boring and totally inappropriate.)

In our current society, absolutely. But I was rewatching the first few seasons recently, and something that struck me throughout was the scarcity of food. When the Mexican trade delegation visited, Fred asked about their crops and we learned that Mexico was having trouble with their harvests. And then Fred showed off the fact that their home had oranges. Janine told June in season one to make sure she gets her ice cream (just vanilla) if she's pregnant because that's the big perk you get for having a baby. Nick's first wife Eden said she'd never even seen a token for chocolate before in her life when she baked him cookies before he went to Canada as part of Fred's security detail. In a society in which dessert is that rare, it would be a red flag to see a piece of cake on the floor (one would assume you'd be pretty careful with the first piece of cake you'd been served in a long time, and if you dropped it you would pick it up, cut off the parts that hadn't touched the ground and eaten those). Someone noted on a previous forum that when Lydia brought Janine cookies and she tossed the room, she threw everything except the cookies. Because food is valuable in this society. There are, as always, a ton of plot holes in the Handmaid's tale, but that one I can accept.

I didn't see Hannibal, but she was also great in one scene in the movie Young Adult. In just a few brief lines, she managed to really capture her character and lay the groundwork for the audience understanding the lead character's struggles.

It's interesting particularly because DJ is about to go into labor (she's over 40 weeks and scheduled to be induced) and her chasing after Ava is a stark contrast to how she told DJ she couldn't be there for her when she thought DJ was asking her to be there for the birth of her first grandchild. As noted above, Deborah really is all alone, but part of the interest in the show is seeing how these characters also cause themselves to be alone since they keep pushing everyone else away (that was the point of the scene of Ava with throuple couple).

From the moment Deborah popped all the balloons, I hoped this show finally found its footing this season, and thankfully it did. I loved Deborah making excuses for not being there for DJ, but thankfully DJ has shown a tremendous amount of growth and was never looking to her mother for support. I'm really proud to see how much DJ is thriving. Even the annoying throuple couple managed to make their scenes worth it by calling out Eva for not being ready to be in a relationship.

It would be really hard to pick the dumbest thing Benson has ever done in 26 seasons of SVU, but near the top of the list has to be cheerfully telling the mother of a sexual assault victim to open a video sent from an unknown phone number when the only thing she knew about her child's sexual assault was that it was filmed. At that moment I thought, "have you not been doing this for 25 years? That's a mistake that would be surprising from a rookie on their first day of work" Aside from that particularly idiocy, this was a decent episode.