america really is to the fictional hello scope of gilead? >> a heck of a lot closer than we were season one. which is terrifying. >> only a couple of years ago, and the country has gone that far backwards -- >> when i saw what was going on in georgia, i literally thought this can't be real. it stunned me. the degree of -- of what's going on in the anti-abortion world. i just thought this cannot be america. i mean, i don't know -- it was scary in season one. but then trump, of course, and then suddenly we thought let's get hereal here. >> in the first there was a "make america great again," but it was taken out. >> it got more serious as we were shooting the pilot, there is happening. and then, of course, it did. so as june says, by the time we put our phone down, it was too late. >> one of the flashback scenes, describing life before -- >> before gilead --