The Handmaid’s Tale
WARNING : Contains spoilers for The Handmaid ’s Tale time of year 5 and The Testaments by Margaret Atwood . Hulu’sThe Handmaid ’s Taleseason 6 is set to be the final one , but season 5 has already put in motion the stories that will see the sparkle of day inThe Testaments . Despite June ( Elisabeth Moss ) being relatively safe in Canada since her arrival inThe Handmaid ’s Taleseason 4 , installment 6 , Gilead - mandate violence pull off to reach her also there . Along with Canada ’s rise anti - immigrant sentiment , Gilead ’s ability to indirectly reach June prompted her and Nichole ’s leakage toward Hawaii inThe Handmaid ’s Taleseason 5 finale . WhileThe Handmaid ’s Taleseason 5 did n’t reference much of what will happen inThe Testaments , it offered glimpse of what ’ll happen .
Although not much is love about June ’s story in Margaret Atwood’sThe Testaments , escaping Canada with Nichole as she did inThe Handmaid ’s Taleseason 5 , episode 8 directly place up her future . However , The Handmaid ’s Taleseason 5 ’s endingdidn’t just set up June ’s future as it ’s love fromThe Testaments . trace about Aunt Lydia ’s story , Hannah ’s fate , and Nichole ’s succeeding role inThe Handmaid ’s TaleHulu continuation were also circularize throughoutThe Handmaid ’s Taleseason 5 , tie the two television show in more style than the books did . Here is every wayThe Handmaid ’s Taleseason 5 has already set up its sequel , The Testaments .
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June’s Role In The Resistance
June wished to be part of Mayday for as long as she started to believe there was a web of multitude struggle back against Gilead . However , throughoutThe Handmaid ’s Taleseasons 1 through 4 , June does n’t have much to trust on except for rumors about Mayday or word - of - sass message that permit the Handmaids , Marthas , and anybody who counterbalance the regime machinate . Although June negociate to direct herself things like theAngels Flight or even the Gilead prisoner exchange that eject 22 women , she never had the chance to meet well - orchestrate Mayday cells for as long as she stayed in Gilead , even convincing Janine inThe Handmaid ’s Taleseason 4 that they had to head west to find Mayday .
Unlike previous time of year , The Handmaid ’s Taleseason 5 not only introduced a right Mayday cell operating in Canada , but it also confirm the big oscilloscope of Mayday , get through Gilead placement and abroad . The Handmaid ’s Taleseason 5 close ending , with June first urging Tuello to persist in fighting and then running to Hawaii with Nichole , thoroughly set up up June ’s future active participation with the opposition . Everything that happened to her inThe Handmaid ’s Taleseason 5 increase her conviction to fight Gilead , peculiarly after her power to influence Commander Lawrence waned . June ’s work with Maydaywill probably direct her out from Nichole based onThe Testaments’setting , effectively shaping June ’s future function in the electric resistance .
Aunt Lydia’s Changing Views & Status In Gilead
Aunt Lydia ( Ann Dowd ) stanchly endure Gilead from the beginning , adorably calling the Handmaids " my miss " and at the same time punishing them gratingly when they carry in ways she did n’t deem right . AlthoughThe Handmaid ’s Talealways portrayed Lydia as a complex character , there was no doubt she was on the side of the oppressors , often believe them virtuously in the right . Aunt Lydia ’s strong belief in Gilead ’s rules often made June and the other Handmaids ' lives scurvy , butThe Handmaid ’s Taleseason 5 showed her really starting to understand the horrible condition the Handmaids found themselves in , more often than not encourage by her .
The Handmaid ’s Taleseason 5 effectively started Aunt Lydia’sTestamentstransformation , first by let her grasp what she saw as senseless violence in Esther ’s endeavor to envenom herself and Janine and then by farm nigher to Janine during her retrieval . Considering howThe Testaments’Aunt Lydia was always a very fighting Mayday operative that give countless privileged information for Hannah and Daisy / Nichole to smuggle into Canada so that it could be made known to the world , The Handmaid ’s Taleseason 5 set up that transmutation . By last learn the Handmaids as people , Aunt Lydia starts to care about them . The Handmaid ’s Taleseason 5 finale ’s brutal abduction of Janine only cemented Aunt Lydia ’s rift with Gilead ’s values .
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Hannah Not Being Able To Leave Gilead
The hope that they could be reunite with Hannah keep June and Luke going for the whole serial , especially in time of year 5 , asThe Handmaid ’s Taleseason 5 episode 8 ’s American rescue missionto free Hannah and the others at the wife school showed . To reunify with Hannah , June even moot displace to Gilead ’s new settlement New Bethlehem , almost think Commander Lawrence ’s hope . However , inThe Handmaid ’s Taleseason 5 , episode 8 ’s saving mission was doom to flunk , as Hannah’sTestamentsstory begin in Gilead , making her likely escape out of the question as Hannah would ’ve always been a primal participant inThe Testaments , without whom Gilead ’s fall could n’t have been potential .
The Testaments’Hannah was deeply changed by learning that her biologic mother was a Handmaid . That cognition , coupled with her fear of becoming a wife , rent her get into Ardua Hall , where she could ’ve studied to become an Aunt . Thanks to Aunt Lydia ’s workings , The Testaments’Hannah brought down Gileadwith the information Aunt Lydia gave her and got to make out Nichole , succeeding in what June failed . Luke and June were never as close to getting Hannah back as inThe Handmaid ’s Taleseason 5 , installment 8 , however , that could n’t have worked , orThe Testamentswould’ve had to hold back major alteration from the original material .
Nichole’s Future Role With Mayday After Luke’s Arrest
Gilead ’s endeavour to murder June and Luke subsequently flap up June ’s aggressor was surprising inThe Handmaid ’s Taleseason 5 finale , but his collar was not only necessary but also kickstarted another next narration inThe will . Although the rise Canadian anti - immigrant intuitive feeling could ’ve prompted Luke and June ’s decision to go forth , June ’s escape from Toronto ask to happen alone with Nichole . Only that way could Nichole’sTestamentsstory start to be lay up , as Atwood ’s book saw her join Mayday after her adoptive parents and Mayday operatives are mutilate by Gilead .
WhileThe Handmaid ’s Taleseason 5 set up June ’s electrical resistance hereafter , Luke ’s arrest also put Nichole ’s Testaments storyline in motion , taking her from one of her parents and leading her toward her future with her adopted parents in Toronto . It ’s unknown how June will also end up separating from Nichole , but she would likely do so only if being with her put Nichole in peril . Whatever the cause , Nichole could n’t have been found by Hannah inThe Testamentswere she to stay in Hawaii with June . Thus , Luke ’s arrest necessarily had to make June Nichole ’s exclusive carer inThe Handmaid ’s Taleseason 5 , setting Nichole’sTestamentsstory in motion 15 years ahead of its time .
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