S2.E11

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Holly

Episode aired Jun 27, 2018
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48m

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8.3/10

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June faces a grueling challenge alone as she recalls her life as a mother; Serena and Fred deal with the fallout of their actions towards June.June faces a grueling challenge alone as she recalls her life as a mother; Serena and Fred deal with the fallout of their actions towards June.June faces a grueling challenge alone as she recalls her life as a mother; Serena and Fred deal with the fallout of their actions towards June.

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4jeffballermed

Waste of time...

Right off the bat, I want to say that I love this show. Also, I rarely give anything a rating under seven. but this episode was pretty much a waste of time, except for about the last 10 minutes. One thing I've been noticing lately are shows will spend 3 minutes just watching someone walk somewhere or 3 minutes just watching a character think or cry. I'm okay with the slow burn, but this is a whole other thing.

About 45 minutes of this episode is just watching Offred walk around a house, stop to think, walk around some more, etc. Then every 10 minutes or so you get a 1-2 minute scene with dialogue. They could have put the 10 minutes of the important stuff into another episode and saved us a lot of time.

And like I said, I love this show and this is the first episode that I've rated below an 8. So that's saying something.

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Trivia
When June hears the "Radio Free America" Resistance broadcast, the voice of the program's host is played by Oprah Winfrey, in an uncredited cameo. In a June 2018 statement to The Hollywood Reporter, show runner Bruce Miller said, "We'd heard Oprah was a fan of the show, and had a story idea, and thought, wouldn't it be wonderful if... So we asked and she said yes, and it was a lovely, easy process. The radio segment she recorded was inspired by the free radio of the Allies from World War II." On June 27, 2018, Laura Bradley of Vanity Fair weighed in on the cameo: "It's unclear whether Winfrey was playing a version of herself on the show, or simply voicing a radio-anchor character. But either way, her smooth intonation is unmistakable."

Goofs
After running away from the black wolf into the house, June runs through several divisions. When she walks through a door to the room where she met Hannah in the previous episode, we do not see the doll on the floor where it had been left. Immediately following, we see the doll placed in the chair, where it wasn't in the previous cut either.

Quotes
Serena Joy Waterford: How could you be so stupid? They hate you... She keeps running away from you.
Fred Waterford: Me? If you'd shown that girl one ounce of kindness, she would never have left.
Serena Joy Waterford: Kindness? You raped her yesterday!
Fred Waterford: That was your idea! I did this to fix your mess!