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The Handmaid’s Tale Season-Premiere Recap: Trainwreck


June and Serena are thrown back together as fugitives and mothers in an exquisitely taut season premiere.

The show couldn’t help feeling extra prescient as the president nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court and reinstated a global gag rule on NGOs offering abortion services. But the thing that’s really got me most pumped for this season is the coda from the season-five finale: Serena and June, with babes in arms, thrown back together on a train out of Toronto, bound for a part of the playing field that we’ve never seen. Though I momentarily panicked that “Train” would feature a sanguine Serena offering to wet-nurse Nichole — a perverse callback that my fragile heart would not have survived — she actually just finds the kid a bottle of apple juice.

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