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S1.E4: Snatch Game Original air date: 6/20/21

When she read the instructions, they said that injections had to be administered three times a day and the other medication had to be taken within a two hour window. Even if she did one injection in the morning and another in the evening after work, that still leaves one more that has to be done in the middle of the day aka when she's at work.

S2 E3: Petal Your Wares Original air date: 6/17/21

OMG I remember when Angel was in danger of being cancelled so there was a donation campaign to raise money to hire one of those trucks with a big billboard and drive it around LA.

To me it looked like she was going into the back room where only employees were allowed. I don't recall her trying to give herself injections out on the floor in front of customers. The only thing I specifically remember was when her alarm went off while she was talking to a customer and she asked another employee to come over and help them so that she could go into the back to do her injection.

If I had been the guys who made those amazing dragons in the first challenge, there's no way I would have given up the golden brick. It's only the third week. All you have to do is be better than ONE other team. I had to laugh at the other brother being so clearly angry about the "decision" to use the golden brick. That is the kind of thing that a sibling would be exponentially more pissed about. ITA - especially in this challenge where so many teams were making what were essentially big rectangles. It doesn't take any more time to use, say, red bricks than it does to use boring beige bricks. I get that the teams were concerned with structural integrity first and foremost but you can still do things like use color or alternate colors or SOMETHING so that you don't have a blah boring beige building.

I had zero flower girls/children in my wedding. As cute as it is to see little girls all dressed up, when my aunt got married she had my sister and my cousin as the flower girls. They had just turned 4 so they were excited about wearing pretty dresses and flower crowns. They were fine at the rehearsal but when it came time for the actual wedding, they refused to walk down the aisle. I ended up having to walk with them the entire way. Neither of them remembered to throw any petals either. My entire experience with British weddings has been seeing pictures of Kate and Meghan with a gaggle of little girls as bridesmaids. In the United States, you usually have 1 maid of honor (usually the bride's sister or best friend), 1-5 bridesmaids (depending on how large the wedding is) who are around the bride's age (usually sisters, friends, cousins), and 1 flower girl.

Ha, when they said the pattern challenge was a bridesmaid dress, I temporarily forgot that in England that means a little girl aka what we would call a flower girl in the United States (here a bridesmaid is a friend of the bride who is usually pretty close in age to the bride). Rebecca's fabric choice of duchess satin had some pros and cons. On the one hand, it's a stiffer material which can be helpful for things like the poofy sleeves. But, like most other satin materials, it can show creases, wrinkles, seam holes if you rip the thread out, etc. Her dress have me a very Alice in Wonderland feel due to the light blue color with the white waistband. Raph's purple taffeta dress was pretty good, but he definitely made a mistake sewing all three layers together in one go. I know he thought he was being efficient but that's why it bubbled up. I did feel bad about his issue with the button hole. If you've never tried making one of those bound button holes with that particular fabric before, you're just at the mercy of fate. It frayed and he didn't have a lot of choices at that point. Serena's blue taffeta dress looked pretty good aside from the button hole issue. The floral lining was a cute choice. She was smart to realize her mistake, rip out the seams, and stitch in the ditch correctly. Congratulations on winning an amazing SIXTH pattern challenge! I was laughing at the explanation for the transformation challenge. If you can afford to go to Coachella, you are buying outfits well in advance, not scrambling around the house for curtains to rip apart for a new outfit. Although Rebecca's silver outfit looked like something that might be worn at a festival, it looked like the cheapest version of what someone might wear to a festival aka "I bought a garbage fast fashion top and skirt that barely cover my bits from the clearance rack at the back of Forever 21 for $5." I guess for that reason I should give it some points for realism? But it was just so cheap looking and not very well made in addition to being very simplistic in design. The top portion of the skirt was way too short! Raph's outfit was very colorful. The top with the pailettes and sequins looked more like a 90s rave top than a festival outfit. I give him credit for making so many pieces though - he made a top, bike shorts, a headband, and a bag. Raph gets bonus points just because Patrick put on that crazy headband. Serena's was by far the most realistic version of something I've seen. This was like a first year Burning Man outfit. Between the mermaid fabric, the laced up halter top, and the split side pants with the metallic party hearts hanging down the side, this had the right amount of shiny/sparkly vibe combined with the right amount of competent homemade craftiness. Ooh, strapless evening dresses! Raph's Kate Bush Wuthering Heights inspired dress was a very specific concept, but I wish he had chosen a different fabric. I liked the red color, but the lamé cheapened it a bit. I also didn't like how stiff the skirt was. The lace up bit in the back meant that he didn't have to fit it perfectly (I say this as someone who has bought a lot of Burning Man type costumes with a similar faux corsetry which allows you to customize the fit to a range of body sizes). I liked all the pleating but overall this was a very unflattering shape (and not just on this particular model - it would make even a size 00 runway model look like she had no waist). The big bows on each side of the hips didn't help in that regard. I haaaaaaate neoprene, partly because it doesn't breathe well which means the poor model will be sweating like crazy, and partly because it's kind of a cheat to use since you don't have to be as precise with fitting it to the model due to its stretchiness. I also didn't like the big floral print which looked very dated to me. I liked the flounce and the godet train, but I wasn't crazy about the bodice. I think if she had used a different fabric/print, I would have liked it better overall, but using that big floral print made it lean more towards casual summer dress from the 90s. Serena's Killing Eve inspired dress looked deceptively simple but I appreciate how much work it took to create all that volume. The fact that she put boning into the bodice which you could not see beneath that big ruffled top showed her attention to detail and her desire to make everything right. The bright yellow color was a very bold choice. Awwww, I'm sad that they didn't keep the eliminated contestants holed up in a hotel nearby so that they could continue quarantining and be at the finale. I'm glad that they got them all to zoom in to watch. I've been rooting for Serena so I was excited that she won. Looking back at her overall record for the season, knowing that she came into the finale winning 5 pattern challenges, 2 transformation challenges, and 1 garment of the week shows how consistent she's been. Raph was pretty close behind with 4 pattern challenge wins and 3 garment of the week wins. I always love seeing what everyone is up to now (thank you for reminding me that Cathryn's into Stormzy, show!).

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I think that regardless of what their actual roles were in Gilead (martha, jezebel, etc), the fact that they were all in custody for being part of the resistance means that they will have some kind of useful information. They might not each have the big picture of the entire movement, but the small pieces of information that they each have could add up to a lot, whether it's intel about which commanders have been meeting together, the ins and outs of routines at specific homes/establishments, etc.

The fact that Fred insists he has rights simply because he's a man shows how much he has been drinking the Gilead Kool-Aid. Sure, he was cooperating in order to buy his freedom and avoid trial, but he was still a believer in their misogynist system.

ITA - Luke thought that he understood what June had been through after hearing her very clinical testimony at Fred's pre-trial hearing. It's one thing to hear your wife say, "Mr. Waterford raped me while his wife held me down. This happened for three successive nights every month when I was ovulating. [Mrs. Waterford] ordered me to have sex with their driver, another violation of Gilead law that I could not refuse. Mr. Blaine and I had intercourse while Mrs. Waterford was in the room watching us the entire time." It's another thing completely to live through years of being violated while you're forced to pretend you aren't screaming inside. Luke thinks that just because he heard her testimony, he gets what she went through, but despite all the Gilead refugees he's met, helped, and worked with since he got to Canada, he doesn't comprehend even a fraction of the pain, violation, humiliation, frustration, fear, and anger that June lived with for years while she was a handmaid. Obviously life wasn't easy for him once he got to Canada, but he wasn't tortured at the red center, forbidden to read, under constant threat of abuse/execution, etc. And obviously, it's a good thing that he didn't have to experience any of that, but June's been in Canada all of maybe a month and he's clearly ready for her to just get over her years of abuse and pep up. Unfortunately, trauma doesn't work like that.

Exactly. How many times in real life have we seen a man attack or murder someone for revenge, whether it's an incel who perceived women as rejecting him or a man who went after the person who attacked/raped/murdered his wife/daughter? But when a female character seeks the same kind of vengeance, somehow it's a feminist fantasy? June and these women were raped and abused for years and they thought they were going to get some amount of legal justice when Fred was arrested. Tuello led June to believe that the trial would achieve just that, knowing that his plan all along was just to scare Fred into turning. For many of the other handmaids, it didn't matter that Fred hadn't been their commander. He represented every commander in Gilead who had raped them five nights a week every month for years in the name of a ritual and then took their babies away in the name of repopulating Gilead, every commander who came to Jezebel's forcing them to pretend that they wanted to flirt and have sex with them so that they wouldn't be sent to the colonies, every commander who had his friends gang rape them. June and all of the handmaids knew that they would not see all of the shitbags in Gilead put on trial one by one. Fred was supposed to be the one who gave them all a moment of justice after years of abuse. As much as I've wanted Fred and his smarmy arrogant smirk off my screen since S1, watching him lose his calm cool demeanor from the moment that Tuello informed him that he wasn't going to Geneva to his desperate pleas to Nick and June ("You are a good and kind woman, and you're a mother!") were actually much more satisfying to watch than his actual death. Fred was definitely a what you see is what you get kind of villain because he was very obvious in his actions and his motivations. He wanted power and he enjoyed subjugating women so for all intents and purposes, he was pretty simple. Serena, on the other hand, is much smarter than Fred ever was and much more calculating. As great as it would be to have her karmic retribution be returning to Gilead and forced to be a handmaid, I think the most painful thing for her to endure would be having her child taken away from her so that's what I'm hoping we will see next season since we got robbed of Fred being put on trial. I wanted at least one of them to have to endure the punishment of the Gilead system they helped create. I KNOW, RIGHT? He was in custody for raping and abusing multiple women, but Serena was out in the hallway demanding better wifi and that the interrogator address him as commander. I only saw Emily. In the episode with Moira leading the survivors' group, Moira was clearly very anti-revenge. This week Rita told June and Moira that she wanted no part of dealing with Fred. Later when they were discussing his deal, Moira and Rita talked about him getting sent back to Gilead, being put on trial, and ending up in jail or the colonies. They said it would be a type of justice. Moira then said she didn't care about knowing what happened to him because she just wanted him gone because she had already spent too much of her life thinking about him. Based on all that, I think it's pretty safe to assume that Moira and Rita were not part of the no man's land particulation. I was shaking my head during that scene. He clearly thought that addressing Nick as "son" would remind Nick that Fred was his elder/superior and elicit an imaginary familial bond and loyalty that never existed. And once again, Fred is so incapable of reading the room that when it didn't work the first time, he just kept kicking that dead horse, continuing to call him "son" in a way that managed to make him sound equal parts desperate and insulting.

SEASON FINALE! S1.E6: The Garden of Champions Original air date: 6/16/21

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