Pop That's what I thought about baby Angela. I don't think Naomi Putnam wanted a baby at all, or perhaps she just cannot bring herself to want Janine's child. Perhaps she doesn't want Warren's child either, she seems to dislike her husband just as much as she dislikes Janine and Angela.
She doesn't seem to like or care for the baby, I said it before last night's episode and when Serena commented that she was always complaining about her it certainly seems to be what they are doing with those characters.
Naomi also got in a dig about Serena's baby shower being less grand than hers was, so with those comments I thought that showed the falseness of the Wives friendships and how clearly Serena and Naomi dislike each other.
That might explain why Serena seems to be crying out for proper conversation with somebody. June had retreated into Offred, and said nothing other than the Gilead dialogue of false pleasantries, god-speak, and Yes Mrs Waterford, No Mrs Waterford, and even though that is what Serena engineered, it's not engaging conversation. And Fred has no interest in talking to her, he made that clear when she tried to talk last night. It took her comment about Nick to get his interest.
Emily pulling her own tooth out of her mouth with just her fingers and no sign of pain was awful. She's getting sick, and I thing this might be her prompt to escape, hopefully with Janine.
I don't think she's going to be stuck in the colonies to die, one way or another I think she will either escape to Canada or get taken back to Gilead.
The bit with her tooth reminded me of an article I read about those women in America who painted watches with luminous paint. They were actively encouraged to lick their own paintbrushes for a sleeker point, and they were not provided with any safety aprons (the men in the factory were provided with these). The women were told that the paint was safe, and so as well as licking the paintbrushes they would paint their nails with it so they shone when they went out dancing after work.
As a result, they suffered from radiation poisoning and became very sick and died. Including one poor woman who had bone cancer. Her jaw was so soft that her doctor just lifted it off her face with his bare hands.
That's what Emily's tooth made me think of. How easily her tooth just came out because of the toxic atmosphere of the colonies and what being there had done to her and all those other poor women.