You are...Useful
The Handmaid's Tale 3.2 "Mary and Martha"
Marthas, it turns out, have their own catch phrase...and substantially more freedom than Handmaids.
They're still slaves, but it's no surprise that they're also the resistance network...and June is becoming part of it, helping them try to move an explosives expert to another cell under Joseph's nose.
Joseph...doesn't know quite what to do. And what is going on with his wife? Whom he wants to call something other than Mrs Lawrence, doesn't he. Interesting.
Poor June also has to deal with a really annoying walking partner...she's been assigned to a true believer.
And Aunt Lydia is also losing it.
Nobody is okay.
Even the people in Canada aren't okay.
In other words, this is about trauma.
The Handmaid's Tale 3.3 "Useful"
Joseph really is a psychopath. Or is he? He forces June to choose which five of a bunch of heretics will be Marthas instead of sent to the colonies to die. She chooses five women with skills useful to the resistance.
He has to have known she would do that. He also says he saved Emily because her skills were needed for the planet.
He's an ecofascist, perhaps? He's not a true believer in Gilead.
Meanwhile, Serena is recuperating at her mom's place and if divorce existed in Gilead. As it doesn't, she has no choice but to go back to her abusive husband.
"We will become their nightmares."
June, you already are.
Cinema Disaster: Blood Red Moon
Ah, Twilight ripoffs. Twilight, 2008. Blood Red Moon, 2010. The romance is about as believable, but the acting is far worse and the vampires all sound like Russian robots.
While chasing around in broad daylight. No, they don't even sparkle. They're just...not nocturnal. At all. And like beef?
I have a beef with this movie's vampires, just saying. And that's before we go into my overall dislike of the ancient vampire...or this case 1970s vampire...reliving high school. Why? He looks old enough to be...never mind.
Just never mind.
Vampires in this world are hyperalive and eventually...after a few centuries...go insane and turn into werewolves. Or something. None of it makes any sense.
None of it! It's not even that funny.
Or romantic, for that matter.
The Handmaid's Tale 3.4 "God Bless the Child"
This episode reminds us that June is, in fact, Christian. Hannah was baptized...and then we see a baptism, Gilead style.
At the reception for Angela, Janine loses it and begs to be taken back into that household...and Lydia snaps and would have beaten her to death with a cattle rod if June hadn't interspersed herself.
We see Lydia really cracking at this point. She almost apologizes to June. She can't, but she almost does.
And we see Moira and Luke baptizing Nicole Holly.
I don't know that I quite needed an episode to say "not all Christians" but I actually do think it was needed for some people.
Serena and Fred are still majorly at odds, but trapped with each other.
Sometimes, btw, divorce is good.
The Avengers 2.4 "Bullseye"
Steed is, for whatever reason, barely in this episode, which focuses almost entirely on Cathy as she infiltrates an arms dealer. Because there's gunrunning. (Note, it's the 1960s, we would never say "tribal war" these days, at least I hope not).
There's also venture capital...and it's set up to make you think he's the bad guy. Well, he is the bad guy, given he's a venture capitalist, but he's not the bad guy she's looking for.
The "bullseye" of the title, of course, refers to the guns. We also learn that Cathy is quite the markswoman...not a surprise.
Not sure what Macnee was up to to have such a light role...