Julia, Elissa, Katie, and Jessica literally hold each through the season finale and proceed to break it down one last time. After a Comey-esque investigation into Elissa’s lateness to the party (like all great celebrity scandals, we can chalk this one up to a scheduling conflict), we get heady and heavy with it. June is pregnant! Moira escapes! Commander Putnam’s wife savagely asks for the harshest punishment possible! Oh my. Our conversation takes us from Serena Joy’s most f****d-up move...

Julia and Elissa sit down with Dear White People’s Leann Bowen to discuss Episode 9. We discuss June’s transformation into a full-on Mayday boss bitch, and the arc of her friendship with Moira. What kind of friends are they? Not the kind of friends who want to have a three-way with one of their rapists, that’s for sure! We call b******t on Serena Joy asking Rita for chamomile tea (she’s obviously on all the sleeping meds) and that she spends a night without Fred knitting (this bitch has a...

To get ready for this episode, which spans Nick’s backstory and the return of Moira, we give a pregnant Angelique Cabral a five-week-old kitten to breastfeed. No follow up questions, please. Ang, Elissa, and Julia go on a real rollercoaster in terms of their opinions of Jezebel’s, which prompts all three of them to dive into that age-old question - would you rather be a Martha, a Handmaid, or workin’ at Jezebel’s? (Answer: you would rather be the James Beard award winning chef who has clearly...

SoCal girls Elissa and Jamie kick off this Luke-flashback episode by asking why no one can drive on this show, to which New England baby Julia replies, “Ice is a real thing.” We are all obsessed with Little America, and Julia tells us about the real-life Little America in London. This is a particularly entrepreneurial episode, and no less than three start-up ideas are pitched, including a period-napkin delivery service for Gilead called RED. We are currently looking for angel investors; tweet...

Julia, Elissa, Caitie, and Hannah dissect “A Woman’s Place,” Episode 6 of the Chronicles of Gilead. The girls discuss how whatever organic cleaning products the Handmaids use to get the blood off the wall do not work well enough, how the leaders of Gilead are f*****’ dorks who decided they needed to be called Commanders, and the fact that Nick knows how to touch a woman while Serena Joy’s husband...does not. We also debate what June should write on her note to Luke - just a sad face? Their...

Episode five of Under Her Eye starts with Elissa, Julia, and their guest, Naomi, seriously fed up with Commander Waterford’s fun uncle, good guy routine. F**k you and your black market LadyFab magazine, Serena Joy’s Husband. This episode of The Handmaid’s Tale is filled with meaty flashbacks from Luke and June’s past - from lunch dates to hotel rendezvouses - and begs the question, is there young Luke-June aka “Juke” fanfiction out there?  Also, what is this seemingly “nice” family which...

Co-hosts Elissa Karasik and Julia Meltzer sit down with actress and stand-up comedian Olivia Harewood to discuss Episode 4 of the The Handmaid’s Tale: ‘Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum.’ Olivia, Julia, and Elissa dissect the unspoken rules of Gilead and the complex - at times confusing - relationship between Offred and Serena Joy’s husband, who we refuse to call “The Commander.”  We also get into the homoerotic subtext of Aunt Lydia’s interactions with the handmaids while Julia’s new foster...

Episode three of Under Her Eye starts at an all-time low, with Julia, Elissa, and their guest, Sydney, reeling from Ofglen’s very bad trip to the doctor, but ends on an all time high, with Sydney deciding to go to Fat Sal’s for a pretzel shake! Which is exactly what we’re here to do on this podcast. This episode is a doozy, even for The Handmaid’s Tale, but we get through it with Julia’s spot-on Aunt Lydia impression, and even more niche “muppet interrogator” impression. You know, that guy...

The second episode of Under Her Eye, a podcast for women who need to talk about the Handmaid’s Tale (and fine, men too, ugh). Listen to funny ladies Julia, Elissa, and Carmen figure out what the eff just happened after watching “Birth Day,” Episode 2 of the most disturbing show on TV since Hoarders.  Highlights of this episode include an introduction to horror Scrabble nights with Commander WaterFuck, group births, and wishing we could get into Elisabeth Moss’ Professional Neck Flinching...

Co-hosts Elissa Karasik and Julia Meltzer introduce listeners to the show and explain who it’s for -- all the people whose friends are too basic to discuss The Handmaid’s Tale (c’est tragique). Julia and Elissa will be your non-basic friends, delivering hot takes, incisive commentary, and jokes that you are welcome to straight up recycle at the water cooler. From Elisabeth Moss’ first national commercial to bonnet-vision to fertility blindness, a lot of ground is covered in this fiery debut...

Co-hosts Elissa Karasik and Julia Meltzer introduce listeners to the show and explain why they decided to make it - some people have basic friends that they can’t discuss The Handmaid’s Tale with. Julia and Elissa will be your non-basic friends, delivering hot takes, incisive commentary, and jokes that you are straight up welcome to recycle and take credit for at the water cooler, right into your headphones. From Elisabeth Moss’ first national commercial to bonnet-vision to fertility...