Okay will own up that I was so irritated to have recorded that stupid chateau show that by the time I found this episode on catch up I was not in a good frame of mind.
And hate to say it was bored. It is like those big film thrillers where they have inept dialogue just to fill in time until they can have a big set scene.
But just to add I wasn't up set by the sewn up mouths. I just though Hannibal Lector and how do they eat. ie more shock horror. Would have accepted a few fingerless hands and facila scarring.
They did say before going that Washington was more hardline.
Anyhow the Nick confusion. It was hinted in earlier episodes that he was more important than his driver role. And the possibility that he is an agent, and maybe this is what he told the delegation. ie more important to keep him in place than support the rights of one child.
And also if he is more important than it appears, this maybe who pulled the strings to stop June being more severely punished after Nicole got taken and the Watrford fire.
And yes, Waterford does now Nick is the father. Getting him to stand in during the rehearsal was a clear message.
I suppose in keeping with Margaret Atwood's statement that nothing in her books had not happened somewhere in the world, that the tv spectacle was a sort of combined North Korea / Iran show of universal support for the regime.
But given all of this, the way June floats around in and out of situations she clearly has no place in, is just not believeable.
I want the detail of how the resistance works and the support systems they have. Not June as some avenger.
I do hope in years to come Margaret Atwood will detail how the tv script writers just didn't quite get it.
PS If the role of the handmaids was to only have one child for each family, surely in now time at all Gilead would have a situation were half siblings were pairing up. Maybe they keep a stud book. Yuk!