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The Handmaid’s Tale Recap: Enemy of My Enemy
This season has been preparing us for this kind of treachery, and yet I was dumbstruck to see it happen.
The show wouldn’t be a slave to the sequel, but it would be “laying the groundwork” — a phrase Handmaid’s exec producer Warren Littlefield used when I asked him about this topic in 2021 — for its story lines. I’d still be shocked to see Handmaid’s suddenly detour wildly from “laying the groundwork,” but I am persuaded not to take certain outcomes for granted simply because, 200 years from now, Professor Pieixoto claims he’s decoded an inscription on an old plinth, ya know? June’s only been back in town for a couple of hours, and she’s already throwing in with Joseph, who confides that the other Boston commanders intend to de-liberalize New Bethlehem and put its creator on the wall.
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