Early on in this series I said I thought that it was becoming more like a Mission Impossible / lone avenger style show, where cinematic effects are more important that plotting. ie dialogue is just strung together to get to the next fixed cinematic cliche (the hospital set was straight out of a well know SF film). Or Natalie getting shot and then the pretension overhead shots. Let alone guards dragging her off when she is / was a "precious vessel" for a baby.
It would have been quite possible to convey the time spent wating for Natalie's pregnancy to progress, without actually spending most of the time looking at June's face (is any actress good enough to sustain that?).
But I think this is because the current writers just dont have the ideas or even thinking through the politics of Gilead so just go set pieces of horror to convey a regime of terror.
Why aren't we being shown how the Handmaid's communicate with each other. They all knew about Natalie, spitting into her drink and so on.
I want more of the politics and the underground plotting.
Agree Serena does not want Nicole to grow up in Gilead.
I think Aunt Lydia is going to question the Lawrences as her role is to become pregnant so she should be posted elsewhere, as it has happened there.
Aunt Lydia's attitude to June is inconsistent and she seems to favour her and let her get away with stuff that others aren't. It actually undermines the plot to have June being treated as special when in terms of Gilead she should have been punished on any number of occassions, ie be now she should have only one eye, no fingers on one hand, and ...
Am beginning to think the suggestion someone else made of giving up on watching the series, wait for the next on to start and just watch the series recap!