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The Handmaid’s Tale Series-Finale Recap: Epilogue


Mommies always come back.

In the space of an hour, June pinballs between almost everyone she cares about, with two notable exceptions: Hannah, who we learn is moving to DC for her father’s hasty promotion up the depleted Commander ranks, and Moira, whom the episode unceremoniously sidelines. Her having helped orchestrate the overthrow of the American government, it seems wrong to let her chill here with America’s makeshift army; in Gilead, she’s likely to be executed; and despite all the New Bethlehem goodwill tours she gave, no foreign country’s stepping up to issue her a passport. I prefer to picture mother and daughter as June does throughout “The Handmaid’s Tale” — smiling with their faces pressed up against the cool aquarium glass, the deep blue water behind them dreamy and peaceful.

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