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The Handmaid’s Tale Recap: Eye for an Eye
Serena is in a “fool me twice” prison of her own making.
How satisfying you find this week’s episode of The Handmaid’s Tale will depend partly on how you react to June’s voice-over, which ushers us in and out of “Exodus.” For me, her monologue about the awesome power of fashion, both in America and Gilead, comes a little too late. June tells us they’re the color of blood and “rage.” Viewers will have seen the apple Eve plucked from the Tree of Knowledge, Hester Prynne’s scarlet A, and The Red Kimono, the suggestion of a theater curtain closing on the outside world. Eventually, he lets her go, but unless Serena has Mark Tuello’s new number, she must spend the dark drive home thinking about how she is going to die in this marriage, in this country, in this mess of a savior complex she allowed to determine the course of her life.
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