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I'm surprised she trusts any of them, but I've decided Serena has crossed over into being completely delusional. It was like her greeting Rita at the New Bethlehem gates like they are old friends, and not the woman who was Serena's quasi-house slave for however many years. Gilead is a black hole of death and destruction, and Serena is acting like she's in a rom com, complete with dreamily dancing in the street. I'm also just waiting for Luke to get killed trying to prove himself to June.

Season 3 trailer! The show is coming back May 29.

I was watching Make Me a Perfect Murder, and remain absolutely entranced by the murder sequence with the music and Kay's taped countdown so she has enough time to shoot her boyfriend/boss and change the movie reels to give herself an alibi. I also kind of love that the episode proves her boss' point in not giving her the promotion. She blows a hole in the schedule by entrusting a variety show to her friend who cannot emotionally handle it, and she sinks the expensive movie the network has on deck by airing it as a last minute substitute without promotion.

They definitely have a resemblance.

I agree. Ava can be very funny, but she's regularly awful to Janine. I don't think they've done a good job of explaining why Janine keeps having Ava's back.

I guess you could chalk that up to it seeming like the entire project, from concept to casting to filming, appeared incredibly rushed and she had no rehearsal time. However, I agree with you that she was wooden and clunky when we saw her acting against the movie characters. There was also the fact that the characters would have been reacting to her as though she was the original actor who played the role, so any chance of doing something new by having them see her as a black woman was lost.

It's nice to see that even in a post-apocalyptic world, there's still someone who feels the need to make a scene over two women being intimate. I just want to be like: "Dude, most of humanity has been killed off or transformed into monsters. Perhaps it's time to just let gay people be." Didn't it already? Wasn't that why she was trying to clean up the bite mark? I agree that her behavior with the ride leader was surprising. I get teenagers imagining they are invincible, but I'd be surprised she wasn't at least suspended from further missions until she was more respectful and under control.

It really surprised me that Sister Julienne was acting like all this was news to her. I'm sure she has seen how minorities have been treated in Poplar, and, as I recall, Lucille wasn't always well received by her patients. Joyce handled the situation with a lot more patience and grace than I would have. I was also glad Joyce had a hard talk with Rosalind. Even if race wasn't going to be an issue, she's jumping in pretty quickly with a guy who is not even divorced yet. I surprised myself with how upset I got over Nigel. Poor kitty.

I was surprised they didn't do a test run first where Sam just walks the ghost trap across the boundary so she can be in contact with the ghosts the whole time. That way if they felt a smooshing coming on as Sam slowly was walking across the boundary, they could call to her and she could just walk back onto the property.

I thought it was a weak sketch. The Black Lotus parody they did a couple of years ago was better, and didn't feel as forced as this one did.

I don't understand why this ship would host cheerleading squads when there is obviously no real place they could safely practice. I also roll my eyes at how the medical staff has all this free time to hang out in the hot tub, and that Avery chose the hot tub to make her big non-pregnancy announcement.

I thought the premise of the episode was somewhat dumb. The idea of creating a world where you take the place of a main character in a movie and interact with movie characters might make for an interesting choose your own adventure-style video game (since depending on your choices, the original movie storyline could be changed), but I don't know who the audience would be for the movie.

I'd agree that Deborah needs a thicker skin, but I can see why she might resent a question that's essentially: "You're old. How do you plan to take on this kind of late night schedule and not immediately die from being old?"

I appreciated Helen Hunt telling Ava and Deborah that their public feuding has real consequences for their show and they need to get their acts together quickly. They needed a respected third party to call them both out on their BS. The inside the episode after show, showing how they filmed the coyote with Deborah in her bedroom was pretty funny once they showed the outtake where the coyote started going down on the doll they had standing in for Deborah.

Yikes! Deborah went full Norma Desmond on Marcus (the slightly rundown glamour of the LA House adds to that feel) in their argument. At least right now, I'm more on Ava's side than Deborah. Deborah's mistake is to go too big, too fast in trying to get Ava fired. If she took a more long term approach, she might have better odds. Having said that, I did appreciate Deborah's responses to the reporter questions about her age and being female. I know they didn't go over well with the network, but I can see why she bristled over those questions. Am I the only one who thought there were a few moments where the tension between Ava and Deborah was so electric that it would not have been shocking if they kissed and had hate sex?

I think the leader of the trio of girls mentioned she had gotten an inheritance from her grandmother, and the girl studying for the LSAT said her parents paid for her to go on a cruise. Now why they paid for her to go on a cruise alone is another issue. It was a meh episode. I really did hate when Avery was on the step stool, how Max and Tristan ordered her down. Guys, she's a grown woman and a nurse practitioner. Surely, she is capable of gauging and accepting the risk of using a step stool during her pregnancy without two men deciding they know best for her.

Her son was in the middle of a firefight and his girlfriend was just murdered. She has bigger things to deal with than Robby's hurt feelings. Mel was honestly one of my favorite characters in a cast with a lot of good ones. She just seems like such a lovely person.

If you want to feel old, Dr. Chase was played by the same actor who was Carrie's jazz playing boyfriend on Sex and the City in episodes that aired 24 years ago. I did want someone to tell her that she can't have it both ways. You can't agree to an open marriage then get angry when your husband sleeps with someone else!

Sir, under no circumstances is your wife a "good" mother. She'd rather her kid die than listen to the medical professionals trying to help him. The next time she needs medical attention, feel free to tell her than instead of doctors, you've invited people from her mom group to diagnose and treat her. Then leave her in a ditch on the side of the road where she belongs. I just want to scream and yell over that storyline, so forgive my being blunt.

I'm interested to see how the Janine/Ava relationship is going forward. Janine really put herself out there for Ava. I'll be disappointed if things just return to how it was before where Ava spends a lot of her time insulting Janine. For me at least, the show seems to have trouble letting certain characters grow.

I will say I think we've seen examples where Ava did show she cared about the students. That isn't to say she's a great principal, because she's mostly on the average to mediocre scale, but I do think she does occasionally show she cares. I thought the episode was kind of dumb. Of course these idiots scheduled an appeal for Ava without any real plan for what would be said, or how to get Ava back her job. Maybe I also didn't love it because the teachers and Ava did what they were accused of doing, and the punishments seemed generally fair? On the positive side, I did like Ava's rival addressing Ava as SOROR, then trying to say BOARD in the same way. I also was amused at Sweet Cheeks being suspended along with Melissa.

After Gilead took over, June and Luke found her mother's apartment ransacked and she was missing. They initially did not know what had happened to her. If I remember right, while June was at the Red Center, they showed a picture of her at the Colonies. June assumed her mother was dead because the Colonies have a very low survival rate. I think it would be fair to say the situation was ambiguous.

Serena was really having trouble reading June's body language and the room in general during that episode. Key point: When a mob is looking to murder you for all the horrors you perpetrated on them, your response is not to try and justify it with: "America was full of whores!"

Seriously, the female diplomats are basically ready to throw the refugees under the bus because they see a cute baby and a pregnant woman? When Serena was talking about increased birthrates and the like, I wanted someone to point out that of course Gilead has increased birthrates. Women have no choices. Handmaids are raped until they are pregnant and I'm sure that econowives and the other married women are heavily encouraged to get pregnant under threat of something bad happening to them.

I think June would have been fine with Serena locked up or otherwise being held legally accountable for what she had done. Leaving Serena to an angry mob, particularly one that didn't seem to care that an innocent baby was involved, might feel too much like Gilead for June to go along with it. I was completely surprised by June's mother being alive. It's nice to see the show can still throw a twist in.