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[quote=Anonymous]I gotta say, I didn't really buy this episode and I'm just about over this season.

Basically what saved it was Joseph Fiennes who is truly terrifying and should win all the awards, Elizabeth Moss's face when Janine said she sounded like "one of them," her face during the beating, her face at the end, and the actress who plays Janine whose name I don't know. The actors are so so good. But even Elizabeth Moss's face can't make up for what kind of feels like writing whiplash. Serena and the Commander were completely obsessed with Offred's pregnancy and now what, they're not worried any more? She was a glass doll to them and now she's traipsing all over town bringing handmaids to babies? And while I am down for the complicated nature of slavery within a household and the relationships that go with that, Serena held June down while she was raped. Aunt Lydia tortured her repeatedly. I just don't know if any human could bounce to interacting with them as more or less equals the way June did in this episode.

And frankly, the baby-healed-by-birth-mother story seemed pretty darn contrived to me. This show has made such elegant and visceral moments of humanity. The Janine on the windowsill magically healing the baby moment was a big flop for me because even if the baby's Gilead "mother" sucked at mothering, the baby was well cared for. It would have had martha's to dote on it and whatever. Compare that to, for example, the scene where June and the bread truck driver stare at each other and he decides to risk his life and his family to help her. It just didn't rate.[/quote]

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