- The new normal disconcerts me heavily. Because this show has trained me to accept that anything that looks even CLOSE to normal, positive, or happy eventually leads to some awful comeuppance. So, night work with Serena Joy? I give it 3 more scenes before Lydia is giving June papercuts on her eyelids while the Cyclops Handmaid does a jig. Don’t like it? TOO BAD, SHOW. YOU DID THIS TO ME.
- “I won’t forget this.” Riiiiight Serena. Does this mean you’ll let June see her daughter? FAT CHANCE.
- Aww. Childbride made Voldefred a napkin. And as a topper? I think he’s kinky for June’s extra cushion for pushing. Vomit.
- “Here. Let me regift you my music box to remind you that ultimately you’re my property.” Awww!
- Poor Childwife. She doesn’t get that Nick is just a goth.
- “You sound just like one of them.”… and THERE it is, kids. A fate worse than a taser to the tit.
- Hooboy! Moral ambiguity?! Bend the law, you say?
- The SNEER on that wife’s face when he one-handed hubby sided with Serena was AUDIBLE.
- Oh, Aunt Bitchbag. Can there be a single episode without her?
- SHE’S GOT A STETHOSCOPE! GET A GUN POINTED AT HER HEAD, STAT!
- Meanwhile, in Sad Sack Manor… Voldefred goes on a panty raid? Vomit.
- It’s like the baby… has lost… her will… to live. I just made a Star Wars Episode 3 reference. Now I feel sick.
- This gimp-ass bearded impotent bastard is gonna whip his wife like a scolded child. How dare they make me feel bad for Serena. Who I need to remember not only helped launch Gilead… but knowingly choked June while pregnant. This has all better work out in the end… when Serena kicks Fred in the balls, literally to death. And then, downs a fistful of pills and vodka.
- Childwife can’t be trusted.
- You know what I just recognized? No real “poignant flashbacks” this episode. Funny, that.
- I’m honestly amazed Fred didn’t just go ahead and play the Imperial March.
- And June collapses on a compass. She doesn’t know what way to go. Touching.
- So, a mother’s love brought a baby back from the brink of death. FUNNY, THAT.
