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  1. I think the real issue between Jamie and John is not that John slept with Claire, but he declared his love for Jamie. As accepting and "woke" as Jamie is, he's still living in the 1700s, and he's also still a rape victim that had an ejaculation while being raped. During the argument about John sleeping with Claire, it was after John said "we were both sleeping with YOU" that Jamie punched his eye out of its socket. There was something about THAT that put Jamie over the edge. He could accept John being gay, and probably was fine getting little favors because he knew John had affection for him, but then John also slept with Claire, a woman, (and let's face it- bisexual men are barely accepted in straight or gay communities NOW), AND alluded to having sex with Jamie (and technically without his consent, although it wasn't actual sex bc Jamie wasn't actually there). Psychologically, it was just too much for Jamie to handle, on top of the fact that Claire willingly slept with his friend. Jamie's duty is to his wife, and he just didn't have enough brain energy to give beyond forgiving her.
  2. I guess I'll start? First comment of the series. I'm loving this show! fake-Filomena is hard to buy as a noble woman, but man, I've enjoyed her relationship with Dr. Dioneo. I'm going to miss him a LOT. I particularly loved how so many people lusted after him. I'd hoped fake-Filomena and he would have disclosed their lies to each other and worked out a way to have their relationship, but also their fortunes.
  3. this is a large part of why I loved this show. Not only did his guilt/shame about his sexual identity play a part in his decisions, but the stigma about men being abused and/or stalked played a large role too. Why didn't he tell the police all the details of the stalking behaviors? Probably 50% "they should believe me because I'm a man" and 50% "I'm a man, I should be able to handle this. I shouldn't be afraid of a woman, even if she's done XYZ before..."
  4. I felt similarly re: the voyeuristic quality when I learned it happened to the actor, who had also written the series. I understand how his on-stage breakdown happened, followed by interviews with him about the experience. I even understand the idea of the 1-man show as perhaps a learning/educational example for people (not sure I'm capturing my thought well here). But to decide that you yourself not only want to write what happened to you, but also want to re-enact it and have everyone in the world experience that with you- or at the least watch you essentially experience being traumatized- Well there's something exhibitionist about that there, isn't there?Like I've experienced some mild trauma- I've never felt the need to have people LIVE that with me, to watch me feel traumatized.
  5. I absolutely LOVED this series. I work in mental health, and think Donny's behaviors were very realistic for someone who's had trauma together with feelings of invalidation. All the things that Teri said rang true: part of him enjoyed the attention of being stalked, part of him needed the drama, part of him was a shit human being that didn't see her (Teri) as a full woman, and didn't respect her need to no longer be closeted and afraid. Even Donny going back to the "original" abuser (as far as we know), isn't crazy. maybe he thought he was going to tell him off and get closure, and then found the guy charming and validating, "and this time will be different." I also think people like Darien don't always know they're even being abusive in situations like these. Donny kept going back, kept acting cheerful, gave no clear signs, etc. We know what we know bc we saw Donny's perspective. But Darian was also on drugs with Donny while doing these things. not "excusing" his behavior, I'm just saying that i enjoyed just how complex this show made every character.
  6. I finally got to watch this episode last night, and I actually think Jimmy just has a really bad case of "foot-in-mouth" syndrome. He says everything that pops into his head because he trusts Chelsea and feels close to her, and doesn't think about HER perspective. i am 1000% like him in this regard. But he was EAGER and clearly excited when they were in bed together. It was all over his face. Yet Chelsea kept negging herself and being the downer. She has really poor self-esteem. I caught her covering her belly when they met (I think he spun her?), and she slouches and sits in ways to make herself look smaller. Trevor was right- she would have said yes to whoever asked first. I think Jimmy is anxious about being so exposed on camera too. did you see him cover his nuts when he took his shorts off? even though he still had undies on that were pretty much same cut/fit as the shorts!
  7. I was really sad that this title wasn't a reference to Matthew going to get whatsherface who left after hearing he had pre-proposed to A.D. using exact words said to her. I want to see him awkwardly pissing everyone off on the honeymoon shows!
  8. That was the season finale?? it was such a bizarre episode. Definitely felt like a clear metaphor for Whitney in labor, complete with her trying to pull Asher with the towel (aka umbilical cord). I was expecting him to get out of the house or float away and we'd cut to the baby fully born with both parents present. I suppose what made this episode most interesting is not knowing whether the events were supposed to be real or dream/fantasy.
  9. I just binged this show over the weekend. Can "Uncomfortable" be a genre? Neither funny nor dramatic, I have just found this show to be unrelentingly tense and uncomfortable, which I think is compelling in its own right. It's almost like a highly funded student film or a thought experiment. The acting is interesting, as this awkwardness is probably how we all present in real life....
  10. Did anyone else have the feeling something ominous was about to happen in this season finale? Charlie outside in the dark, finger hovering over "send" for his "i love you text." They've said it to each other already, right? No reason to hover. I kept thinking he was about to get hit by a car or something. driven by Ben.
  11. I've kind of had the impression that Irina is the mean girl, and Micah just finds her antics amusing. I appreciated that she acknowledged her own wrong-doing by not shutting Irina down while they were in the pods and Irina was antagonizing all the other girls. So I don't think Micah is a shit-stirrer on her own, but she's also not above laughing when someone else stirs it. Where I think Micah's flirtiness with Kwame was different than Irina's flirtiness with Paul is that Micah wasn't planning on pursuing anything with Kwame, and she certainly didn't go and tell Chelsea that she was interested in Kwame. Irina broke up with her dude (Zack), had been flirting with another dude (Paul) before that, and then told her friend that she was interested in the friend's dude (Paul). Irina made it clear that she was interested in pursuing Paul, where Micah was still being flirty with an "old flame" but planned to stay with her guy only.
  12. i saw it as "payback" for Cynthia intervening with Gil at the school (when Cynthia saw him getting rough with her). I think she legitimately thought she was helping Cynthia. as for "proof," I wouldn't be shocked if they had a baby camera kind of setup in there. You wouldn't be able to hear alarms in all rooms of the house.
  13. When Nick and June were split up, and then June was taken off the bus, I was CERTAIN that Serena was going to kill Luke in front of her. That would be "eye for an eye" behavior, right? But as soon as Serena had the gun, I knew either she would shoot Ezra, or June would somehow get the gun and shoot Ezra. I think Serena dying in labor and June keeping the baby would be some just kismet. Finally, I loved June's prayer for the girls at the end. I'm not a religious person, in part because i so often see selfishness in the guise of religion. Altruistic prayers for your children (and others) to have a peace and safety is how I imagine religion SHOULD be.
  14. it's explicitly stated in the book, and I believe in season 1 also. It's why the supermarkets have symbols instead of words on all the food, and why allowing June to read a magazine and to play scrabble was so exhilarating to her in the moment. I don't remember the details, but recall TV show Fred also shot Serena down at least once about offering to help him write something or to look something up online, and Serena was very upset that she went from writing a book that helped create Gilead to not being allowed to read/write in Gilead- she seemed to have expected to be an exception to the rules rather than subjugated like all the other women.
  15. This reminds me a lot of how my father described Cuba, where he is from. Tourists to Cuba were only allowed to go to certain places, where things looked great and people seemed healthy. Actual Cuban citizens (that were not part of the dictatorship itself) lived in squalor, received rancid food rations, were not allowed to go to tourist areas, they were not allowed to eat beef because that was for tourists, and even had to bring their own bedding and sometimes even their own food to the hospitals. Gilead would likely do the same- tourists see the Commanders mansions, and the kids at their school playgrounds, and get a trip to the theatre, while the handmaids are raped and hung on walls, and others get sent to the Colonies...
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