The sixth and ultimate season of the award-winning Hulu drama can be a “love letter” to followers who’ve caught with it by 5 grueling seasons of typically agonizing occasions, showrunner Yahlin Chang promised: “It’s no secret that The Handmaid’s Story can generally be a really exhausting watch,” she advised TV Insider. “We now have the perfect, most loyal followers on the earth. And it’s actually fantastic how they caught on this journey with us. And so we thought that they deserved some feel-good episodes of actual reward and satisfaction.”
As June Osborne’s (Elisabeth Moss) ultimate battle in opposition to the oppressive Gilead regime commences, she gained’t be working alone. Actually, she’ll have extra allies than ever this time round.
“That is the season the place our characters and the folks of Gilead — and particularly the girls of Gilead — have had sufficient,” Chang stated. “They arise and declare, ‘No extra.’ They’ve been by trauma. They’ve been by hell. However they actually discover the energy in themselves to actually take it to the person and to battle again. … They’re pushed to the restrict, and so they and so they’re going to stand up and insurgent. So the theme is riot. We lastly, lastly get to full-scale riot.”
The fifth season finale noticed June heading off on a prepare west with child Nichole whereas Luke (O-T Fagbenle) obtained himself arrested to attract consideration away from her. There, she bumped into Serena Pleasure (Yvonne Strahovski) and child Noah, who had been additionally fleeing the more and more hostile-to-refugees Canada. Because the trailer for the brand new season reveals, although, June and Luke can be reunited, and Serena will one way or the other make her approach again to Gilead — the place it seems to be like she’ll marry a brand new commander.
Based on Chang, figuring out this was the ultimate season gave them the artistic freedom to make some new narrative decisions. “It was actually form of a wish-fulfillment season for us. It was our probability to do every part we’ve at all times wished to see and haven’t but had we wished it to be extraordinarily rewarding,” she defined.
There’ll nonetheless be some open ends, after all, with the spinoff The Testaments now in manufacturing. “For certain, there can be cliffhangers for The Testaments, so it doesn’t conclude every part,” Chang defined. “So any followers which are left wanting extra are going to get extra in The Testaments, which can be nice for them. But it surely does conclude in some very satisfying methods lots of the storylines, however not each single one.”
The Handmaid’s Story, Season 6 premiere, April 9, Hulu
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