Season 2 finale - those last minutes

I was sooo disappointed myself.
Terrible ending

I loved it. She can’t leave Hannah, she just can’t. And she can’t leave all those other brave amazing imprisoned women. She is ready — and able — to work to bring the whole thing crashing down. Couldn’t you feel her power?

It was a devastating ending. After getting so close to escaping once already, to refuse to leave at the last moment made no sense. Until I thought about it afterwards, of course. She did the only thing she could do - she saw her baby safe in the care of her friend, and stayed to rescue her other child. If she’d left Gilead she wouldn’t have been able to help her. Nobody on the outside can influence anything - she’d have no chance. She knows what she’s giving up, and she knows the risk she’s taking. But she sees it as a better option than living half a life, without ever seeing her child again, always wondering if she could have helped her.

the core of the drama is her in that situation.

there's no show if she leaves.

I wasn't disappointed in the least because she's not getting revenge. She just had six Marthas help her escape. The Professor is now in deep shit for helping Emily escape. Not to mention Nick and Serena (!!!), Eden's death and the fact that Eden's father turned her in. She is going to help all these other people who helped her and, if she gets revenge in the offing, so be it. As Rita said to Nick earlier in the episode, "Your girlfriend is a badass."

I love that the baby's name is Nichole now...for Serena.