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We know that Winslow would rather use Nichole as political leverage, and Waterford is only too happy to oblige. But by the time things come to a head, June is back to her calm and collected self-thank goodness.Ĭommander Waterford is now, somehow, the rising star of Gilead thanks to his prayer campaign for the return-or, rather, 'return'-of baby Nichole. At first, she just seems a bit crazy, like the weeks spent in the hospital have unhinged her. She wants to save as many kids as she can, and by the end of the episode it's looking more likely that she will at least attempt to save quite a few with the help of the Marthas and quite possibly Commander Lawrence. In any case, June has departed the hospital with a new mission and a new slightly mad spark in her eye. Who is the big boss? Or is it some sort of council? Having some answers to our many questions would help us appreciate the story more.

But surely now we could get some clear explanation-in the form of some Lawrence-driven exposition even-of how Gilead's power structure works, what territories Gilead controls and so forth. It worked in Season 1, because June herself was ignorant of all these details. Without a sense of the geography or power structure of Gilead, we are left at the writers' mercy, and they can keep changing the stakes and the parameters of this story at will. I feel like much of this was not planned out ahead of time, and that initially we were intentionally led to believe that this area was the center of Gilead, because that's what the show's writers and producers believed, and that now we're getting what can only be described as 'retconning' of the details in order to extend the story. is still the seat of government, and that the Commanders in Cambridge, who we previously thought were the heads of Gilead, aren't, and so forth. I also thought that Gilead was primarily just the eastern (former) United States, and that the rest of the country was either a warzone (Chicago), the bombed out, radioactive 'Colonies' area in the midwest, or still outside of Gilead's control (the west coast, Alaska and Hawaii). I thought, up until this season, that the head of the Gileadean government was the man who brought Nick into the Sons of Jacob, and used him as an informant while in Waterford's Household.

To be entirely honest, I thought the seat of the Gileadean government was in Massachusetts. So we're left confused about power structures.

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One day Nick is a driver the next day we learn he was a Gilead war hero so caught up in the violent overthrow of the United States that the Swiss diplomats and Canadians won't even speak to him to gain valuable information about Gilead.

And in this instance, for June, I think it’s the opposite.And maybe one reason it seems absurd, and why it's so weird to have Lawrence suddenly powerless and Waterford suddenly so influential, is that we are never given any sense of how power actually works in Gilead. 'I found that so layered, because that's usually the final plea for sympathy, the idea of, O h, the children, that's something that a person would connect to. Melano also spoke with Bazaar, about his character's shocking death, and his final line: 'My children.' “And Commander Winslow is married with a large family, and that spins Serena Joy’s head, so it’s a wonderfully multi-layered relationship that Fred Waterford finds himself in, with a goal.” Is there possibly some kind of attraction here?” he said. “There’s a respect, there’s an admiration, there’s a bonding. Let's not forget, Gilead considers those who engage in homosexual relationships 'gender traitors,' and they're often killed, brutally punished, or sent to the Colonies. When we talked to executive producer Warren Littlefield, he alluded to an intimate relationship brewing between Commander Winslow and Commander Waterford. You're propping yourself up to be one thing, and the truth is that you are something else. I'm not saying that to be bisexual is a perversion, of course, but that this person is not authentic. Things are not what they seem to be, and there is a corruption and a perversion of norms. And I thought, This is a man of great appetite, and there’s also a sense that this is how things work when you have absolute power.

The action is just, I put my hand on Waterford. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play Whether you want to call it Easter eggs or bread crumbs, I just thought there was something to play there.