‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Showrunners Dig Into This Season’s Most Startling Character Arc

The Handmaid’s Tale has just one episode left to wrap up the story of June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss), who’s been fighting to take down Gilead since 2017—and has finally made some rather big strides in that direction. The penultimate episode of the Hulu show’s sixth and final season packed in a few major “oh shit” moments, including several farewells. Some were poignant. Others were not. Nobody is going to cry for Commander Wharton. That includes Serena, who’s now twice a widow, and whose intel helped June and Commander Lawrence plot to blow up the plane that would be carrying Gilead’s surviving leaders to an emergency meeting in Washington, D.C. Commander Lawrence, however, we’ll miss. The Handmaid’s Tale‘s quirkiest commander spent much of his time trying to undermine the dystopia he’d helped create, and he had hope for the future once the most evil commanders were taken care of. Too bad his scheme to plant a bomb aboard their private jet was ill-timed, and he was forced into making ... Read full article.