[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale series finale.]
The Handmaid’s Story revealed the fates of all its characters within the collection finale that debuted on Tuesday, Might 27, on Hulu. It was an open-ended however hopeful ending, one which leaves the door open for June (Elisabeth Moss), Luke (O-T Fagbenle), and people combating for Mayday to return in The Testaments spinoff. In actual fact, so many characters survived, and The Testaments takes place in such a close to future, anybody who ended the collection alive may arguably be seen once more.
The Handmaid’s Story ended by taking issues again to the start. As finale author, government producer, and former showrunner Bruce Miller instructed TV Insider concerning the collection finale, there’s the sound of a recording gadget turning on within the very first Offred scene in The Handmaid’s Story Season 1 Episode 1. This was put in place for the only real objective of circling again to the sound within the collection finale, at any time when that may be.
Miller stated that studying Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Story novel made him notice that June’s entire story is mainly an audiobook already. The one cause individuals know the story is as a result of this Handmaid took the time to file her recollections, and people recollections grew to become an necessary a part of Gilead’s historical past.
“The story within the ebook of the Handmaid, though it’s instructed on the finish as historic notes, is that that lady who was Offred recorded this story in some unspecified time in the future, she was not but free, and Gilead didn’t fall instantly. So her recording that story is a part of the character that we all know,” Miller stated. “One of many final issues, however one of the necessary stuff you discover out about her is, she determined to file this horrible, troublesome story of loss and ache, however you file it as a result of there have been so many individuals in it who’re price remembering, so many ladies particularly who’re price remembering.”
The Handmaid’s Story collection equally ended with tales of loss and ache, but in addition hope. Right here, we compile how every character of The Handmaid’s Story story ended. What number of of them will proceed in The Testaments?
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