Wednesday’s episode of HandmaidsTale perfectly illustrates why June should have left Gilead
her getaway truck, sending Emily and her infant daughter off to safety in Canada while she stayed behind. “I’m sorry, baby girl,” June said to herself moments into the season three premiere, which picked up right where the finale left off. “Mom’s got work.”
Wednesday’s episode perfectly crystallizes all of the reasons June should have left Gilead, and why the show is poorer for its decision to keep her there. In flashbacks, we see June and her husband, Luke, baptize an infant Hannah in the America that would one day become Gilead.
More and more, Gilead feels like a place with no tangible rules—not a terrifyingly regimented society, but one whose conditions shift to accommodate whatever the story demands. The strictness of this autocracy must be fluid in order to give June the space to operate as a rebel within Mayday, to find her daughters, to temporarily leave them behind, to challenge Commanders, to manipulate their Wives, to stand up to Aunt Lydia. As a result, the boldness June displays feels less and less earned.
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