Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood, the author of the 1985 dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale," a Scorpio queen and practicing palmist, has long praised the virtues of ...

[Capricorn](https://nypost.com/article/capricorn-zodiac-sign-dates-personality/) is the daddy of the zodiac and no one deals darker in discipline and toxic paternalism than Aunt Lydia. [Virgos](https://nypost.com/article/virgo-zodiac-sign-explained-by-a-celebrity-astrologer/) often possess brilliant minds and nurse a need to be of service. Capricorns are all about the long game and the legacy they leave and Lydia’s perverted approach to parenting is, in her mind, a way to secure the good of the world and the immortal souls of the handmaid’s in her charge. We see these influences expressed in Lawrence who, ashamed of the role he has played in the development of Gilead, uses his knowledge and power to help the resistance dismantle it. True to the ethos of her [earth sign](https://nypost.com/article/earth-signs-zodiac-explained/), Beth chose death over betraying her fellow handmaid’s. Synonymous with swashbuckling adventure, Sag is the sign of the pirate and with an eyepatch and penchant for speaking her mind to grave consequence, Jeanine fits the bill. As such, it is Nick who is able to give June the gift of her vengeance, sealed with a kiss, by handing over Commander Waterford to her in the season 4 finale. [Taurus](https://nypost.com/article/taurus-zodiac-sign-dates-personality/) rules the throat and is the domain of Venus, making bulls natural gourmands and more than a hint hedonistic. Libras are averse to conflict and violence and Luke is uneasy about the prospect of learning to shoot a gun in season one and continues to be less hell raising and action oriented than his wife.. Everything she does is to ensure the safety of her children, even betraying the resistance and her fellow handmaid’s when the life of her daughter Hannah is threatened. In celebration of her literary legacy and the return of the [Hulu](https://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=XRMZVUE6JmY&offerid=852731.19&type=3&subid=0&u1=nyp) series for Season 5 on September 14, 2022 that continues to uphold said legacy, we’re taking a look at the zodiac signs of the major characters of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Further, she proves herself capable of mercy, warmth and generosity and is at her best when in the company of or charged to care for, children.

"The Handmaid's Tale" would appear to be returning at an auspicious time, as the overturning of Roe v. Wade has thrust Margaret Atwood's dystopian vision ...

The Hulu series obviously hasn’t lost any of its relevance, and indeed, some of its themes resonate in a more pointed manner. There are also other less-developed subplots, among them Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd), and what the burdens of a conscience might look like; Nick (Max Minghella), still pining for June as he seeks to chart his own path; and Bradley Whitford’s Commander Lawrence, whose belief in the goal of quietly reforming Gilead from within has become a central tension on that larger level. While shedding old grievances would surely be the practical move, that’s simply not in her, much to the chagrin of her husband, Luke (O-T Fagbenle). But the arc of this fifth season is ill-suited to the moment, more narrowly focused on the bond of hatred between June and Serena, at the expense of almost everything else. Yet even in a patriarchal society, Serena is not without the political skills of a survivor. With Moss again wearing multiple hats as star, producer and occasional director, “Handmaid’s Tale” seldom fails to deliver stark or shocking moments.

In the first two episodes of 'The Handmaid's Tale' season 5, Fred might be dead, but June's troubles are far from over. Read our recap.

As they focus all their attention on the massive screens, they see a close-up of their daughter Hannah, who brings Serena a bouquet of flowers before standing by her side and holding her hand. Lawrence informs Serena the commanders denied her request for a bigger funeral, Janine is briefly reunited with her birth daughter Angela before Naomi puts a stop to it, and Warren creepily feeds Esther chocolates in an attempt to "get to know her." This prompts her to help Rita in the kitchen, where she tries to fire up the former Martha about getting revenge on Serena. In fact, commander Putnam and his wife are in the market for a new handmaid, and Lydia thinks the "young and fertile" Esther could be a great fit for the family. Things take a dark turn, however, when Esther accuses Janine of using her to gain access to the Putnams' so she could see Angela. She picks up the crying baby, and is quickly able to soothe and quiet her as only a mother can. With Tuello and Fred's cardboard casket in tow, she arrives at the airport, where she's greeted by commanders Nick Blaine ( But June feels better after talking to the kind agent, as Tuello says her actions not only scared Serena, but probably all of Gilead. [Sam Jaeger](https://ew.com/search/?q=sam+jaeger)) breaks the news that Fred was traded for 22 Gilead prisoners, a new deal that somehow left him hanging in the woods. Slow motion scenes of Fred's beating and murder are intercut with glimpses of June smiling, all while the Everly Brothers' "All I Have To Do Is Dream" plays in the background. Emily's partner informs her that [she's fled to Gilead](https://ew.com/tv/how-the-handmaids-tale-wrote-off-alexis-bledels-character/) to hunt down the evil-doing aunt Lydia ( [Ann Dowd](https://ew.com/search/?q=ann+dowd)). Of course, that intercepted mailing was Fred's severed finger, the bloody digit June attempted to send to Serena Joy (

But when June goes to her house, Emily's wife Sylvia (Clea DuVall) tells her that she isn't there, instead returning to Gilead to exact revenge on Aunt Lydia ( ...

So I love her very much." News in a statement that "after much thought, I felt I had to step away from The Handmaid's Tale at this time." "I love Alexis. While June ( [Elisabeth Moss](https://www.eonline.com/news/elisabeth_moss)) is left reeling from her murder of Commander Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) along with a group of fellow ex-handmaids, she notices that Bledel's ex-handmaid Emily isn't among the killers. "To find Aunt Lydia if she can. [The Handmaid's Tale](https://www.eonline.com/news/the_handmaids_tale) ahead of season five, the series revealed how its handling her absence during the Sept.

In the premiere of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale season 5, Emily (Alexis Bledel) is missing and June (Elisabeth Moss) is given an explanation.

“Emily is still very much part of the story this year,” explains Miller, offering a hint of what June will be wrestling with as the season goes. [portrayed life after trauma](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/handmaids-tale-elisabeth-moss-june-sexual-trauma-survivor-season-4-1234957790/) when it followed the handmaids who survived Gilead in their lives as refugees in Canada, which has taken in those who escaped in hopes of giving them a better life. “It didn’t feel healthy, but it felt correct,” says Miller of Emily’s decision to go back to Gilead and continue the fight, even if it means she likely wouldn’t survive there on her own. Listen to Miller talking about the perpetual relevance of the series on THR’s TV’s Top 5 podcast “I am forever grateful to [showrunner] [Bruce Miller](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/bruce-miller/) for writing such truthful and resonant scenes for Emily, and to Hulu, MGM, the cast and crew for their support.” And June spends the whole season asking herself if Emily was right: ‘Well, if Emily thought that was the right thing, I feel so shitty, maybe that will make me feel better?'” “At the beginning, June is rudderless without Emily and feels like she could easily be that person and disappear. [Alexis Bledel](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/alexis-bledel/)), is missing from the meetup. And, even if Bledel doesn’t return, Emily’s impact is set to reverberate — as her decision deeply affects June when the starring handmaid sets out on her season-five course. “[Alexis] made that decision completely on her own; it was a complicated time and she let me know,” Miller tells The Hollywood Reporter. While the fifth season was in production, Bledel, an original star on the series, announced that she had departed The Handmaid’s Tale after four seasons. [Elisabeth Moss](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/elisabeth-moss/)-starring series reconnects with June (Moss) right where viewers left her — cradling her youngest daughter, Nichole, while covered in Fred’s blood and brushing off questions from her husband Luke (O-T Fagbenle) while internally plotting her next move.

During the September 13 premiere of the show's fifth season, Sylvia (Clea DuVall) revealed that Emily (Alexis Bledel) has gone back to Gilead to enact vengeance ...

This is how Bledel was written out of the show after [announcing that she would not return](https://www.vulture.com/2022/05/alexis-bledel-exits-season-5-hulus-the-handmaids-tale.html) this season. So just in case, the writers are prepared for Bledel to make like her character and return to the brutal land of The Handmaid’s Tale for its sixth and final season. During the September 13 premiere of the show’s fifth season, Sylvia (Clea DuVall) revealed that Emily (Alexis Bledel) has gone back to Gilead to enact vengeance on her haters, abusers, and wrongdoers.

The Handmaid's Tale actor and director Elisabeth Moss talked to E! News about the fifth season of the series, revealing her take on the June, Nick and Luke ...

[Alexis Bledel](https://www.eonline.com/news/alexis_bledel)'s decision to [ leave the show](https://www.eonline.com/videos/339670/alexis-bledel-announces-exit-from-the-handmaids-tale) ahead of the new season. "There's so much good June/Nick stuff this year, so there's a real pull in that direction." And Elisabeth said she isn't trying to be fair to her co-stars, she genuinely feels torn between the two characters. I can't make that choice, I don't know if anyone can make that choice." "Can I be team both?" Fagbenle), the father of her first daughter Hannah, and Nick (Max Minghella), the father of her second daughter Nichole.

After three decades of working on TV and movie sets as an actor, Elisabeth Moss decided she was ready to make the leap into directing.

After three decades of working on TV and movie sets as an actor, Elisabeth Moss decided she was ready to make the leap into directing. Things worked out well, and she was given two more episodes to direct later in the season. Of course, directing can be an intense and difficult process, so Moss was originally concerned about how she would balance her acting duties with directing.

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- "I used to think of my body as an instrument for the accomplishment of my will. - "There was a time when women were able to choose. - "The mouth of a woman is a deep pit. I feel like the word shatter.” — June, Season 1, Episode 4. - "Fuck Aunt Lydia! - "No mother is ever completely a child's idea of what a mother should be. I have given myself over into the hands of strangers. [The Handmaid's Tale](https://www.harpersbazaar.com/handmaids-tale-tv-show/) continues to grip viewers, as we follow June Osbourne's journey outside of Gilead. - "It's gonna end the same no matter what you do, so there's no point trying to be tough or brave. The girl who thinks her boyfriend with the perfect hair is just playing a sexy prank. I just need to scream." Here, we round up 30 of the best quotes from The Handmaid's Tale so far.

Though Commander Waterford definitely didn't deserve the pomp and circumstance, greater forces were at work. Gilead's ruling council considered the event, which ...

[The EPs add that Serena and June’s twisted relationship is at the center of the new season, which will offer insight into both the women’s past and their future.](https://tvline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/the-handmaids-tale-recap-season-5-episode-2-june.jpg) And if that weren’t enough, Serena made a point of stopping by a group of school-age girls to accept a white bouquet from one of them.](https://tvline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/the-handmaids-tale-recap-season-5-episode-2-luke.jpg) Serena kissed her on the forehead and then looked directly into the camera, giving viewers a barely perceptible smile. These are two people who hate each other, want at times to kill each other, have the ability to, and then there’s also this fascinating respect that comes into play.” And Serena saw it as a way to stick it to her former handmaid/Fred’s killer, now free and living in Canada. [The Handmaid’s Tale](https://tvline.com/tag/the-handmaids-tale/)‘s fifth season — the second half of a two-episode premiere; read an [Episode 1 recap here](https://tvline.com/2022/09/14/the-handmaids-tale-premiere-recap-season-5-episode-1/) — found Serena Joy Waterford somehow bending the American, Canadian and Gileadian governments to her will and pulling off a grand funeral in Gilead for Fred.

"The Handmaid's Tale" premiered over five years ago and was quickly renewed for another season. It may have a sixth and final season, but we are here to ...

Like every previous season, you can watch "The Handmaid's Tale" season 5 on Hulu. The subscription with ads will cost you $7, and the ad-free subscription costs $13 a month. Madeline Brewer (Janine Lindo) will return, but Alexis Bledel (Emily Malek) has left the show.

It's an adaptation of Margaret Atwood's book — starring Elisabeth Moss — that portrays a dystopian future where women are oppressed. To date, there have been ...

In the UK, new episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale air on Channel 4. Maisel, Saturday Night Live, Only Murders in the Building and is always up for a Seinfeld rerun. Here is what you need to know about how and where to watch The Handmaid’s Tale online. Michael Balderston is a DC-based entertainment and assistant managing editor for What to Watch, who has previously written about the TV and movies with TV Technology, Awards Circuit and regional publications. The Handmaid’s Tale has been one of the most critically acclaimed series of the last 10 years. The good news is that there are a number of ways that you can sign up for Hulu that fit almost any budget.

Emily's sudden exit from The Handmaid's Tale may seem unsatisfying at first, but it feeds into the show's exploration of trauma and self-forgiveness.

[Season 4](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-handmaids-tale-season-4-recap/), Emily’s story trickled to only a few brief moments in which she mostly played a character facilitating the stories of others. Even in the novel, Emily posed a fascinating counterpart to June, a study of action versus inaction. When she is entrusted with the task of getting June’s daughter to safety, she quite literally [swims to Canada](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-handmaid-s-tale-season-2-episode-13-review-the-word/). Her departure may be abrupt, but even in her absence, she continues to serve a crucial narrative point for the show; that of the revolutionary. [Margaret Atwood’s novel](https://www.denofgeek.com/books/how-will-margaret-atwood-handmaids-tale-book-sequel-affect-tv-show/) introduced Ofglen as a seemingly pious devotee to the oppressive system that has left her a handmaid, only to reveal herself as a revolutionary working to destroy the system from within. There are things that changed her intrinsically, and given the very real option to go back to how things were, she found herself unable to do so. We see that, despite living with Sylvia, attempting to readjust to a life as a wife and mother remains elusive for her. There is no removing Emily from her queerness, and in some ways, even her departure enforces this. As Emily’s portrayer Alexis Bledel stepped away from the role after season 4 for reasons unknown, her story appears to have drawn to a close, but there are plenty of questions left in its wake. Still, [Season 4](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-handmaids-tale-season-4-recap/) brought some level of catharsis as central characters found asylum in Canada away from the horrors of Gilead. Appearing in the original novel only briefly, her state-imposed title of Ofglen is her only known name, making her a Handmaid’s character built more by the series than the book. [Season 5 premiere](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-handmaids-tale-season-5-episode-1-review-morning/), we hear that Emily has gone back to Gilead from her wife, Sylvia (Clea DuVall).

How do you solve a problem like Dark June? A recap of “Morning,” episode one and the premiere of season five of Hulu's 'The Handmaid's Tale.'

But of course, it is Luke — that absolute prince of a husband — who gets June to a semi-good place in the end by encouraging her to comfort Nichole, who is crying in the bath. Plot momentum is minimal in this episode, which is more concerned with reacquainting audiences with the world of the show and June’s mental state — which is frayed, to say the least. She would like to go back to Gilead to bury Fred properly in the nation he built. The episode ends back at home with June, Luke, Moira, and Nichole, where Luke is pouring celebratory drinks but Moira and June are both still freaked. For anyone not even passingly familiar with the plot of Macbeth, this is a visual metaphor for guilt. Anyway, Officer White Night — excuse me, Officer Tuello — later comes to give her more details, including that the prison received a package addressed to her containing Fred’s ring finger, which immediately tells Serena that this was June Osborne’s justice, not Gilead’s. And June, who spends two-thirds of the episode out-damn-spotting her bloody fingernails, doesn’t seem to regret killing Fred, but at the same time, she thinks she belongs in prison. Luke insists that June did nothing wrong and has decided to just “take the fucking win.” June’s fellow handmaids are ready to begin their murder tour of Gilead, on which Emily already has a head start. Can what June and the other handmaids did to Fred be called justice? Should June herself be brought to justice for leading the murder? it sure feels weird to be back in Gilead in the context of a post-Roe world, doesn’t it? Actually, we begin season five of The Handmaid’s Tale in Canada, where somehow no one has yet referred June to a professional therapist experienced in dealing with compounded trauma and PTSD.

The Handmaid's Tale executive producers Bruce Miller and Warren Littlefield break down the climactic funeral sequence in the season 5 premiere.

It seems that, now that June has dealt a huge blow to both her traumatic past and the society of GIlead, she will be facing off with her much more potent threat - a woman who actually respects her power and knows how to play against her. However, the emotions of the scene are viscerally powerful on a straightforward level as well, and Miller notes what is going through June and Luke's heads is simply, "She’s got her hand on my kid!" In fact, this could be setting up storylines through to the end of the series, as it was recently announced that While on a date to see the ballet in their Canadian refuge, June and her husband Luke see a televised broadcast of the ceremony, during which Serena is given a white bouquet by a young girl in a group of schoolchildren, who the couple immediately Littlefield reveals this scene is just as momentous as it seems, representing Serena "stepping in and getting on the throne." [The Handmaid's Tale](https://screenrant.com/tag/the-handmaids-tale/) break down the implications of the climactic funeral scene during the season 5 premiere.

'The Handmaid's Tale' showrunner breaks down all the ways JFK's funeral inspired Fred Waterford's elaborate burial scenes · Gilead said goodbye to Fred Waterford ...

The episode's title, "Ballet," refers to the fact that June (Elisabeth Moss) was on a date with Luke (O. The executive producer said that on the day of shooting "the world was cold and gray." Miller said that he and Moss, who directed the episode, didn't necessarily purposefully plan to juxtapose the funeral with a ballet — they were just thinking about where June and Serena would naturally be on their journeys. ["The Handmaid's Tale"](https://www.insider.com/the-handmaids-tale-facts-trivia-2019-6) season five episode two, "Ballet." [footage from Kennedy's funeral events](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuJjaOKITn4&ab_channel=SteveForbes), Onassis in fact often walked alone or held her children's hands. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum](https://www.jfklibrary.org/visit-museum/exhibits/past-exhibits/a-nation-remembers). [the riderless horse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEQSFDd4agc&ab_channel=CNN) that became an iconic part of Kennedy's funeral procession. And that made it feel so bare and raw that she was just this sad woman out there on her own, not being comforted by anybody." Kennedy's 1963 funeral](https://www.businessinsider.com/jfk-funeral-arrangement-2013-11) for the elaborate scene. Fagbenle) at the ballet when Gilead is honoring Fred. But the similarities go beyond the basics. [Similarly, on "The Handmaid's Tale," ](https://www.insider.com/handmaids-tale-based-on-real-world-origins-history-events-2019-8#giving-birth-in-public-is-a-practice-royals-in-the-17th-and-18th-century-used-to-follow-5)Serena Joy was walking alone with her child, though she was pregnant so she had no hands to hold.

With things coming to a head in Gilead, and a sequel series in the works, you're not going to want to miss The Handmaid's Tale season 5.

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