Tag: Yvonne Strahovski
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Under the Eye: “Fairytale”
Bowling for Gilead. So Canada, right? Supposed to be America’s surrogate? Land of the … somewhat free? Home of the … arguably brave? Does your average American citizen have the rights afforded them by their Constitution and Bill of Rights, and are those rights recognized by the Canadian government? The reason I ask is because…
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Under the Eye: “Dear Offred”
“It’s so hard to talk to people, isn’t it? That’s a keystone of “discourse” in 2022 America, let alone an indeterminate year in the world of Gilead. Funny how words … have to … be delivered … in a … slow … contemplative … fashion.”
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Under the Eye: “Border”
Why does everything have to take so long? Is it me nursing the impatience of old age? It’s one of my chief complaints when watching current television. Writers take too long in telling their stories, and directors and editors accommodate those wispy, meandering deficits by making everything look far more important than it actually is,…
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Under the Eye: “Ballet”
“Atrocities become minor anecdotes or isolated incidents in the cultural sieve, and it becomes easier and easier to forget that yes, even in 2022, a woman lives on borrowed time in backward cultures. She may be the most powerful voting block in the West, but she is valueless in places that are not ‘exceptional.'”
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Under the Eye: “Morning”
“The fifth season of The Handmaid’s Tale begins with the deck stacked against it. Be prepared for more ridiculous soap opera stories, more psychotic Kubrickian gazes into nothingness, and more inappropriate needle drops.”
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Under the Eye: “Mayday”
Even in the best of times, we turn on each other. This is what we were born to do. We should always try to seek out the best of us, but we should remember there are snakes in the garden. The trouble is the snakes don’t always identify themselves. It would be easier if they…
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Under the Eye: “Sacrifice”
I knew June was laughing. Maybe it was on the inside at first. June (Elisabeth Moss) is laughing because Gilead was so distracted with the arrest of Fred and Serena that Commander Refrigerator Humper’s (Christopher Meloni) “disappearance” was put on the back-burner. I laughed with June when I realized that Gilead is not America, and…
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Under the Eye: “Under His Eye”
“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction — its essence — has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all.” ― Isaac Asimov Everything engenders discussion, debate, and bitter argument these days. I…
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Under the Eye: “Unknown Caller”
Note: I’ve harped on this before, I know, but there were and are viewers who believe The Handmaid’s Tale represents an analogue of current Western culture; that somehow we’ve gone back to the dark ages, and we’ve brought back female subjugation in a big way. I’d just like to direct my readers to events unfolding…
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Under the Eye: “The Word”
Say the word and you’ll be free Say the word and be like me Say the word I’m thinking of Have you heard the word is love? It’s so fine, it’s sunshine It’s the word, love In the beginning I misunderstood But now I’ve got it, the word is good Martha Rita didn’t have a…
Misadventures in Blissville 