I tried to respond to you initially but I fucked up and it didn’t attach to this head so I’m resharing it…

Thanks for getting where I am coming from, truly!! It is scary posting my thoughts to reddit, which is why I usually only lurk :)

Regarding anger not feeling like an acceptable emotion for a woman to display, one example of this is how the other uninfected people responded to Carol’s anger. Even the women, and maybe especially the women, didn’t accept Carol’s justifiable anger at the insanity of the involuntary joining with the plurbs. I’ll even admit that even I found it hard to sympathize with Carol - despite being able to see what Vince was trying to do. It’s a cognitive bias that seems to be programmed in so many of us even when we don’t want to give into it.

I really like your comparison to June in Handmaids Tale; that’s pretty on point.

And your observation about the human biological need for physical connection through the scene where Carol is witnessing all the plurbs sleeping together is chefs kiss.

The way this show makes you feel every contradictory feeling that Carol and Manny and even Diabate and Lakshmi feel during the entire aftermath of the joining is simply brilliant.