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I kind of want to see this on screen. ?

I get what the episode was going for but I have to admit it was my least favorite of the bunch. It's funny how our personal experiences can color things. Luke taking the album seems to have annoyed a number of posters. Yet it resonated with me. As a kid I was living in a war zone and we left the town for a few months, not really knowing how long it would last. Guess what my mom had to take with her? Photos pulled out from albums. It's a connection to your past, your family and yourself really. So that part got to me. Another thing that struck me was the snow. There was something poignant about everything being white when June and Luke were discussing the lack of snow during the early stages of their relationship. I missed the reference to three years passing since the escape attempt. When did they say so? The only three I caught were the three weeks since June gave the note to the ambassador's aide.

I was shocked that the hall where they had dinner hadn't been ruined like the churches. There was even a mural of a woman in a state of semi-undress. I wouldn't have expected that in a public place in Gilead.

I agree that it was unrealistic, but I thought it was worth it for the message the striking visual sent.

The visual of blood running down the wall behind the handmaids' red silhouetes was brutal. Can you get more clear that this is their future? I am grateful that Serena Joy isn't allowed to have any power. Not just in the sense of, you made your bed, now sit on it with spread legs as your husband ritually rapes a woman, but that I think this godforsaken system would actually be much more efficient and stable with her in some position of power. I abhor everything she stands for, yet I have to admit she is actually really good at what she did/tried to do as was demonstrated with her staging the dinner and her suggestions in the flashbacks. Fred doesn't have a clue in comparison and the fact that he and his ilk are running things makes me hopeful that this shithole will crumble all the faster. I know some people were jarred by the actor playing the doctor in a previous episode. For me it was the ambassador's aide, who is a guest star on Modern Family. Talk about contrast.

He has a very minor role in Back to the Future II as one of Alternate Timeline Biff's goons. It's either non-speaking or up to two lines.

I really love Moira. She saw things a lot more clearly than June, who was complacent for much longer. Her most badass moment was in the stall when she's carving 'Aunt Lydia sux' into the stall wall, ans June warns her that they'll cut her hand off if they find her. Is it worth it? Moira's assured yes was a thing of beauty. I was shocked they even had a doctor. Why the hell wasn't he around when Janine was giving birth?

I've seen the handmaids' red outfits being linked to menstruating and thereby their ability to reproduce. What about the wives' all green get ups?

I found it believable in light of their comments about other restrictions introduced until the 'terrorists' were defeated. They were buying what was being sold to them, so I can absolutely see how they felt blindsided even as things had been percolating for a while.

She posted it with her last update. I'm anxious for that final chapter as well, but I do believe it's coming, even if it might take a while.

For the most of the episode I found the flashbacks much gloomier than the present day. Shit got serious fast in the flashbacks. When it started with jogging I thought it was another contrast to a more innocent time, but boy was I wrong. It quickly went from that hag giving June the stink eye for having the audacity that her breasts moved while she jogged to the misogynistic asshole barista, mass firings and taking away funds from women, and finally killing protesters. In contrast, in the present there was Emily finding a lover (I loved that she grabbed some piece of normalcy in that asylum they call a country), Janine biting the wife, and June standing up for Emily. She was my friend. It felt like a fist in the air moment. So it really felt weirdly triumphant to me, like these women still not giving up. Then of course we ended with June being banished to the tower, Emily being mutilated and Janine proved to be insane. Before she started off about her and her rapist being in love there was a moment in which I thought she may be the sanest of them all. June's husband wasn't only ignorant about what Moira was talking about, he was also asleep as June put it. He thought the situation would go away quickly. And seeing as June's hair was significantly longer when they were trying to escape, it seemed he (possibly both of them) continued to think this way for a while longer.

At the end of the episode, as she's leaving the house to go shopping, she's thinking how pleased Ofglen will be to hear that she's got information about the Commander's movements and that she let him win. Speaking of Ofglen and the ending, that was just another layer of horror to this. The names, which mean they are branded as property and erased as people go pretty much unmentioned. It's an accepted part of their horrid day to day life. But then to just have another woman slide in place like nothing has changed... Ugh. Shudder. And frankly, there was a lot to shudder about here, including the birth and "birth" of Janine's daughter. Christ on a cracker, that whole thing was so whacked out with the wife being coached through "birth" and the whole process being reduced to cultish chants. What are drugs and trained professionals when there are twenty indoctrinated puppets droning on for you to breathe? I honestly expected Janine to kill that baby when she was left alone with her. The pronounciation that she was a girl felt ominous. What lays ahead of her, becoming a brood mare like her birth mother, or belonging to another stratum of women who are all fucked, literally and/or figuratively? That's the most traumatizing part of this for me. That nobody has it good, aside from presumably the commanders. They all feel threatened, even Serena Joy who so far seems to have it best relatively speaking. Yet, when they feel threatened, they chose to seek out someone in an even worse position than them to take them down so that they can feel superior, even if they are still obviously insignificant as well. This was clearly shown with Serena Joy being excluded from her husband's meeting. It is just painfully close to life, where people channel their fear and helplessness through hurting others. Speaking of Serena Joy, an ironically named character if ever there was one, I hope to see her hanging with a bag over her head by the end of the show.

I don't know what the script says, but I've always been in the group thinking that SA played it as Oliver definitely being hot and bothered. This is cute.

Seen on the latest episode of Veep. That's a popular dress this year.

There's a great little moment at the beginning of the episode. Selina: Flying a 1000 miles to Alabama. Is anyone as shocked as I am that I'm doing thi? Richard: Well, I'm easily shocked, so I'm not the best person to ask. Gary: Here we are. My boyhood home. Richard: Whaaat?! Every time Gary called for Mama killed me dead. Nice parallel to him whispering in Selina's ear, and Imogen in Judge's. And then they both whisper that it's Gary's 40th in Selina's ear. There's also connecting him to Selina's narrative from a few episodes ago, what with looking for the type of relationship you had with a bad parent.

Not a wife, but a girlfriend in earlier seasons. I think the dad thing is transference since he actually IS gay.

My take away is that they have Carey Elwes, and I find that adorable considering Robin Wright's role in the movie.

Is that JH's and RG's first HVFF?

That's weird. When exactly in her life was Felicity supposed to have had a dog and money for a trainer? There was Donna struggling for basics, then MIT and from what we know of her, a dog doesn't seem likely even when she came to Starling. I'm with Oliver here. Felicity (a.k.a. the writers) is pushing the dog metaphor too far.

What dog and dog trainer in 5A? It really doesn't ring a bell.

This is a really nice surprise. I didn't even really plan to read it, but then I saw it was only two chapters so what the heck. It had enough of the show elements to make me believe this is a possible version of who Oliver and Felicity could have been at one point if the chips had landed differently. I also chortled at, I am not Pinky! ?

What wagamiller recommemdation? Does she have anything new?

I did expect him to finally go off. His only two friends left the party. ? Mr Marjorie had me laughing way too much. Jean Smart was great. What are they doing separating Ben and Kent? I don't want that to stick. I loved them both as much as usual, Kent taking the phone to correct Dan, and Ben chortling ay the end with his massive drink. At least Jonah finally got fucked by Jane McCabe while his cronies were staging a coup. What happened to the one in charge, how did he break his leg, and is it that the reason why he turned on Jonah?

Oh, hey. Good night vodeos. :)

Hold up, what's this? Where does it come from? I love it already.