Back in the present, the Commander breaks protocol and is alone with Offred before Serena Joy and the household staff assemble for the Ceremony, because he wants to ask her for a Scrabble rematch later that night. Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) with his family: will his actions result in terrible trauma for his children. I presume we’re going to be seeing more of him. Marina McPherson, the woman found dead in the woods, felt that she too was abandoned by her mother, according to her suicide note. And it works.

So no Ceremonying for anyone tonight. With Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, John Lynch, Aisling Franciosi. “It’ll let her know she’s not alone,” she says. Serena Joy suggests a strategy to combat that media coverage — to discredit the Aunt, not the things she’s said — and he essentially tells her not to worry her pretty little lady head about it.

The scene between Stella and Jim was a high point in an episode that frustrated me less than the most recent episodes of The Fall, but felt somewhat undemanding viewing. We’re four episodes in and though this was less frustrating than last week, The Fall is still operating on an undemanding level, Last modified on Tue 19 Dec 2017 21.30 GMT. “It’s personal, and now it is lost to me” – all the emotion so usually veiled by Gibson’s unflappable manner, visible as it cracked for a few brief moments. (In the present, Offred links this moment to the note she found in the closet: “You had to be brave to do this”), The handmaid trainees are also practicing how to perform the “Ceremony,” and Aunt Lydia keeps the spin train going strong: They’re going to new homes, where they won’t be judged for their appearances or their clothes or how clever they are, like women were in the old world. • The painting is Henry Fuseli’s The Nightmare. View the full list of popular shows on The TV Calendar and add them to your favourites filter, Note: "The" isn't treated as part of a show name; e.g. The Fall recap: season two, episode four – the net is closing on Spector. The doctor’s office is white and sterile – and, just as described in the book, a floor-to-ceiling curtain blocks the handmaid from the torso up. The Fall is an Irish-British crime drama television series filmed and set in Northern Ireland.The series, starring Gillian Anderson as Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson, is created and written by Allan Cubitt and features Jamie Dornan as serial killer Paul Spector. “There’s suffering all around us. They go into a subway station, where the name is being chiseled out of the tile and Eyes stand all around. Yes, as part of SAT prep. Offers may be subject to change without notice. • Jim’s corruption business seems to be taking a back seat again. He was the most helpful anyone has been.”. Before they part ways, though, she asks for a favor: if he’d be able to translate a certain Latin phrase.

“Happiness in others is an affront to our own pain and misery, Katie, so why not reduce that happiness? June nods and smiles. Serena Joy wasn’t kidding around with that “things can get much worse for you” threat. Why not get some pleasure from it?” he cajoles. Who could it be from? “Nothing can happen to those children,” boomed Jim, looking at a picture of the Spector kids, sounding very much like someone setting up a plot point where something does. Not that it really matters, he says, because Waterford is probably sterile: “Most of those guys are.” Perhaps not surprisingly, this is not an acceptable theory here in Gilead. There’s only women who are fruitful and women who are barren.”) He locks the door and offers to “help” her — no one will wonder how she gets pregnant so long as she does, he offers, and this could be her only chance. This interesting piece from the Independent discussing the composition and imagery is particularly interesting in terms of the way Spector posed his victims, and (perhaps, depending on how literal you want to be) his vision of himself.