Why would two sworn political enemies meet for talks in which neither will relent? Especially when one of those parties enslaves its people, dishes out state-sponsored propaganda, and punishes a lack of allegiance with death. The episode relies on what would have been a shaky premise until this week.

Did anyone else throw their hands up and scream “How did they KNOW?!” at the television this week? Now we just have to hope that Trump doesn’t learn to change the channel from Fox News to Hulu, lest he start picking up more ideas … Honestly, this is a gift from coincidence heaven (or hell, depending on whether your priority is eerily prescient television or the survival of American alliances). If I didn’t know better, I’d assume that The Handmaid’s Tale’s writers room conspiratorially pulled some foreign-policy strings and launched President Trump’s bizarre Twitter attack on Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau the same week that they’ve released “Smart Power,” in which American-Canadian relations come crashing to a dramatic - and very sassy - halt in a hotel lobby.

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