Sure, she overreacted a tad when a Martha turned up early, panicked and left her kid behind, but to be fair, June doesn’t have time for that sort of shit. Mayday has arrived and everyone in the Lawrence household is bricking themselves, but June’s so calm she should release her own relaxation podcast. Soap! Handy in a bathroom, handy in a revolution. If nothing else, June has been consistently bathed in beatific light.īut let’s start at the beginning, because June has a lot of soap to chop up. I was worried the flashback was an omen, that June would start and end this finale trapped in a cage, and we’d never realise my dream scene of an angry Aunt Lydia hooning around on her mobility scooter, shaking her cattleprod at the rescue plane in the sky as June flipped Gilead the bird from the pilot’s seat.
Forget hard hearts, that flashback turned mine into a wobbly soufflé that collapsed in the first minute and still hasn’t recovered. “Victory goes to the hardest heart,” June says, after a viscerally terrifying flashback to her first day in Gilead. She busted this nightmare right open by flying 52 innocent children to freedom, but did she pay for it with her life? And what happened to all that leftover soap? I’m happy, but I still have questions. I didn’t think anything could be tenser than the time Maria made the Von Trapp kids hide from the Nazis in the Sound of Music, but the season finale of The Handmaid’s Tale took that scene and danced the dystopian cha-cha all over it.
Will we get one, or will we be left weeping into our revolution muffins? Tara Ward recaps. It’s the season finale of The Handmaid’s Tale, and we’re desperate for a happy ending.