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That's what I'm saying. Once I heard about Brandon's family and her living situation I'd have no doubts. A fake one wouldn't go through all that trouble- especially one with Julia's buns of steel.

Same! I'd gone to a lot of trouble picking out photos.

And now we have another one down. Poor Gunther. It's the day that keeps on giving. My husband better remember the cheesecake sampler I told him to bring home.

Having gone through this interview myself, I can assure you they don't quiz you on colors. It's not like the movie GREENCARD. We weren't even separated. We walked into the office together and it was like ,"Here are our ticket stubs from our vacations to Bosnia, here's proof of a joint bank account, here's a copy of our lease, and here's our baby." It literally took me longer to find a parking spot. Julia should tell them about living with the in-laws and the "cute animals." They will have no doubt the marriage is legit because no permanent residency card is worth that.

Marry me?

A nearby town has been doing a Thriller parade on Halloween. The route goes about a mile and thousands of people participate. We try to do it every year.

Me too, sister. Me too.

Or to stay married to him. Or to have more children... These folks aren't real big on accountability.

Same. Not only is it the soundtrack to my childhood, but it had a huge range of styles across all genres. You had Michael Jackson (pop), Prince (funk), Motley Crue (big hair band), Heart, and "Dear Mr. Jesus" (whatever TF that was), all playing on one channel.

Yeah, but we're the losers who keep this shit going. I tried to stop but I'm too weak.

I know, right? As if the comparison was a bad thing. The 80's were a decade of tasteful and elegant clothing and home decor, and a little went a long way... (Seriously, I love me some 80s stuff. )

I'm obsessed with Kalani's breasts. Seriously, it's like gazing straight into the sun...

Dis bad sishwayhun.

I'm here! Gwen is giving me flashbacks to my overbearing in-laws after our son was born. At least mine lived on the other side of the world. We have a rescue dog with hemhorraging gastroenteritis. My DD has been like this on the couch with him all day:

I understand. I tried to make one out of every time we saw a closeup of June's face in The Handmaid's Tale but within 15 minutes my bladder was about to burst.

Okay everyone, new drinking game! A shot for every time they wrote out the entire name of the show in the article.

Yeah, I feel like Nick hasn't really been pinned down yet. I don't have strong feelings either way. He's just...there? Re: Emily One of the first things my professor said to me at the Iowa Writers Workshop was "don't miss the story while you're trying to chase it down." I get that more now than I did then. Sometimes you have a specific plot in your head and come hell or high water you're going to make that happen. In the meantime, you're bypassing a lot of these other stories that may have been better. You have to have that flexibility and kind of follow the tale sometimes. I think a lot of shows paint themselves into corners like that. They're so intent on Character A and B being endgame that they're totally missing the chemistry between A and C. Or they're so sure that they want X to happen that they rush right through the beauty of T, U, V, and W. There have been a few times when I've watched this show and thought -"Wow, they were so CLOSE!" Honestly, story wise I think they jumped onto the Resistance too quickly. S1 where we're learning about the banality of Gilead evil was both terrifying and fucking amazing. We don't always have to go straight for the waterboarding or spanking or fingerchopping stuff. Simply walking into a grocery store and staring at rows of food pictures on cans is pretty bad.

I don't mind anti-heroes. Protagonists who make stupid mistakes and aren't particularly nice. Complicated people with their own agendas. What bothers me about June is that I'm so turned off by her now (and Elisabeth Moss in general) I actually don't care what happens to her. In fact, I'd welcome an episode or two that ignored June altogether and showed us things strictly from another character's perspective. For me, June as a character is victim to the cardinal sin of storytelling: she's just not that interesting. The protagonist doesn't have to be someone you like, but they should be engaging. She runs away, gets caught, smirks at the camera a little, and is then released with nary a scratch on her. Once she's been caught she essentially is returned to her former ranking. If that had been any other Handmaid they'd just be a stomach and a uterus by now. I hated every single person on MELROSE PLACE and, as someone else said, ALLY MCBEAL. It was entertaining as hell to watch them, though. That's where Aunt Lydia and Serena Joy have a leg up. In their own uniquely fucked up ways they're both horrible people (and good Lord I hope there's no redemption arc planned) and I'd gladly sit back and watch them suffer. But that's just it-at least I'd watch. I'm with those of you who turned your noses up at the milk. I hate it, too. Even pictures of people in milk baths turn my stomach. At some point did the train split off? Because when the rebels were shooting at it there only seemed to be one or two cars. Also, at the risk of victim blaming, don't look at a strange man who's already a little skeevy and assure him that you'll do "anything" to stay. FWIW I also think Emily's character is way underutilized and that Nick has the personality of a paperclip. So there's that. TL/DR: June's a bore and I hate milk.

I giggled through most of this because it's true. My kids have started calling June "OfCanola." It's not just plot armor anymore, it's olive oil. And not the Dollar General brand.

Her prison cell is twice the size of mine and my husband's first house.

I want to see her and June finally hit that bar.

Someone said that they don't do any more closeups on June's face than they do anyone else's. My 14yo son accepted the challenge. Grading was on a 4 point scale, points being the forehead, chin, and both cheeks. He only counted it as a closeup if 2 or more points touched the edge of the screen. He'd like to point out that most of June's scenes included Janine, but June got more frames. June 29 Janine 11 Rita 2 Serena 0 Fred 1/2 Steven 1 Moira 0

I think that's one of the things I like about Janine. She's smart but she's almost sweetly naive. In in Gilead she's a glass half full kind of gal.

Looks good! Thanks for posting. From that trailer and from what we've already seen it feels like they are going for a "Lydia is a double agent who's been secretly looking out for June all along" approach. The writer in me cringed and hopes I'm wrong...I CAN get on board with the blackmail shit, though. I have no use for a Lydia redemption arc of any kind, but watching the Gilead peeps fuck each other over looks fun! I'm here for that. Oh, Janine. Baby...just no. It's transference combined with severe trauma. Please don't fall in love with the skeevy, rape dude. Isn't there someone we can hook her up with in Canada? Tuello, maybe? He seems to like crazy, damaged women. Is there a dating app for Gilead refugees? eFugee? BlessedBeasts?

Everyone has an agenda, even resistors. Just because your ultimate goal may be the better of the two doesn't mean that you're the more ethical. There have been plenty of people, people we celebrate, in positions of power who have engaged in abhorrent acts. Conditional help has always been a part of war. In recent history there were Bosnian Muslim women who were literally held captive in rape camps, only to be "saved" by someone who also demanded something sexual. Unfortunately choosing the lesser of 2 evils is common in these situations. There are probably some resistors who are genuinely concerned about how the women are being treated in Gilead. There are provably others who don't give a fuck. Any larger group has smaller factions whose goals may not necessarily line up with each other's. Just because they're on the right side of this fight doesn't mean that they're not also capable of evil. As @EllaWycliffe pointed out, as awful as that seemed, he DID give them a choice. Granted the choice was terrible-blow him or get blown up-but it was still more agency than what the women had in Gilead. Imo that's one of the reasons Janine did it. Not only did it allow her to 'help" but for the first time in years SHE was the one who got to decide on what was done to her body. I mean, the fucker can step on a landmine and get his willy blown off now for all I care (because it WAS a form of rape), but Janine (sadly) felt the return of some power and I gotta root for my girl. Yep, she wasn't wrong. They do tend to drop like flies around June.