Note: This story contains spoilers of season 6 of “The Handmaid’s Tale”, episode 10.
And just like that, Bruce Miller’s television adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel in 1985 officially took his last arc. In six seasons and 65 episodes, viewers saw June Osborne pass from a frantic but courageous servant in the head of a rebellion against the patriarchal and totalitarian company of Gilead.
The showrunners of “The Handmaid’s Tale” Eric Tuchman and Yahlin Chang have unpacked the biggest moments in the final with Thewrap, including these comforting surprise yields, June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) and Luke Osborne (Ot Fagbenle) Tendwell, Tendwell, Serena Wharton (Yvonne Strahovski) and many more.
In episode 10, entitled “The Handmaid’s Tale”, the value of the years of June won the reign of Gilead on Boston, returning the city to American territory. While the last pieces of Gilead’s grip on his house burn in flames, the memories of Nick Blaine fall on her as ash. She and Luke found peace and acceptance in their new differences, knowing that what keeps them united is their fight to save their daughter Hannah (Jordanna Blake).
Although nothing looks like what it was or could have been, June closes the chapter with many of his relatives, including her mother Holly (Cherry Jones), Janine (Madeline Brewer) – whose daughter was also sent to her, thanks to Mark Sulella (Sam Jaeger), Naomi Putnam (Ever Carradine) and Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd); as well as the return of Dr. Emily Malek (Alexis Bledel).
“I know [show creator Bruce Miller’s] The feeling, what I think, is so beautiful in the way the episode ended. He wanted him not to suffer from the final-isist, “said Chang.” He didn’t want to wrap everything in a handsome arc, and he didn’t want it to be the impression that it is the final Episode of this whole series. He wanted it to be the impression that this is what is happening the next day. It’s like a life.
Chang continued: “We had the epic 9 epic of Eric d’Eric d’Eric, where he really delivered everything we wanted to see. And then I think that 10 is just a little very beautiful and elegant outcome of what is happening after this huge revolution, where you finally have a blood fat. It’s a bit like what is happening after the end of the graduate?” Here is the next day.
While the city takes up power, June burns the last article remaining of her horrible years as a servant: her red dress and her coat. However, the final scene shows in June deciding to relive its abuses, but in the form of a support and informative tool for families who have been torn. She begins to write her story in a book, “The Handmaid’s Tale”.
Read below to find out more with showrunners, including how the coming spin-off “The Testaments” changed the end of the show. This conversation has been modified for duration and clarity.
Thewrap: We were able to see the return of certain familiar faces, notably Alma (Nina Kiri) and Brianna (Bahia Watson) in this dream / fantastic sequence. Tell me about that.
Tuchman: If you spoke to Bruce, he had the idea of this dream sequence for a long time. And if you remember season 1, when Janine (Madeline Brewer) will jump out of the bridge and June try to do it, and June saying: “ one day, we will go sing karaoke and waste, and Moira (Samira Wiley) will be there. “”
Who remained [Bruce’s] Head, I think. So, to see him play in this fantasy, and see Alma (Nina Kiri) and Brianna (Bahia Watson) come back, and see Janine with both eyes – which should have been. These vibrant and beautiful young women should have had these lives, and these lives were destroyed or removed. I find it incredibly powerful, and it was even more powerful in person by watching them shoot, to see this group of people come together. It is therefore a moment of realization of wishes. This is just an opportunity to see what could have been, should have been.
For the first time, June finally gives Serena her forgiveness for everything she has done. How was it to create this moment?
Chang: This is one of the themes with which we have played throughout this season, which in episode 6 in fact, there are two big scenes of June-Serena. And you know, Serena even says: “However, you refuse to forgive me. I tried and tried to make amends, and yet you refuse to forgive me.” And June says: “Well, I can’t forgive you. Do you think I want I can only be rid of you.”
And that, for Serena, it really started to define her relationship which, like that or not, she uses June, sees June as her vehicle for redemption, and she will not feel well in her skin. She will not feel well in her skin unless June forgives him. And for so long, June cannot. Then, in the final, June finally gives him a gift, and it is also a gift for herself. Forgiveness is a gift.
So they finally got to this point where Serena did this incredible thing in episode 9, which abandons the location of this plane. June is finally able to forgive him, and it frees them and really frees them, and this relationship, and their tortured and tortured dynamics, which was very instructive for both, it is as if the dynamics were finally getting closer and that they separate.
Tell me about Luke and June, sweet but sad – at least for viewers – goodbye.
Tuchman: So many things have been done on the love triangle, who will choose June? And yes, of course, I understand that it was an important thing, but in the end, it is not the show. This is not what it is, and it is not his choice. What I like in the way June and Luke finish, how Bruce wrote [it] And how they played it, it’s just very real. It’s mature, it’s honest. It looks like a couple who has a long history together, who shares a child, but they are different people. They changed. As much as they want to be able to come back to whom they were, they cannot. They were changed forever by this experience. What they will never give is the link they have. Of course, it is through their daughter, but the love and respect they have for each other. So maybe they will not be physically together, but they will always be linked together, then in the future, they will meet again.
It looks like the most mature and authentic adult version of this relationship that we could get. It looks like real life.
In the final scene, we see in June recording audio so that it could write “The Handmaid’s Tale”, were they the first lines of the book? Unpack this whole scene.
Chang: Yes, these are the first lines of the book. Bruce had this idea for June to record his Handmaid story, I think for years, for seasons, that it would be a scene from the final. Originally, it was not really the last scene. It was not what he envisaged as the last scene, but I think in the end, it’s as perfect as the last scene. I’m glad he made it the last scene, and in fact, it was like a little Easter egg before, I think, in the pilot. And we did it here. When she says: “Chair, table, a lamp”, there is like a small click of a tape recorder that continues. It’s in the pilot, but you probably don’t notice it, but here you finally see it later with the tape recorder. What I love so much about this is that the whole scene had so much meaning for me as a story.
The context is that we knew that we could not bring together June and Hannah, who was, as writers in the series, extremely painful. But as you know, there is a sequel, and it’s all about Hannah. And they hope you will bring us together in this program, but we could not do it in the show because [“The Handmaid’s Tale” author] Margaret [Atwood] wrote “The Testaments” and it’s a beautiful book, and it’s going to be a beautiful show.
What you expect to happen in this show is that it would end up this meeting, and we could not do that. But what made so much meaning for me, which was so beautiful in the way Bruce did the final and [how] Lizzie [Elisabeth Moss] Directed and played is that when she starts to record her story, it’s for Hannah. And what we perform is that all this spectacle that we have seen in all this story is that she reached out to her daughter, and her daughter heard one day. So this creates this relationship between the two, which must be good enough for the moment, you know? And as June says, also in the final, “this story is for mothers who do not recover their children.” It’s a story of trauma and loss, and it’s just real life, and you don’t get whatever you want.
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