"That it would be better if they were totally insane and had no idea. Because it meant they knew what they were doing," Moss told The Hollywood Reporter. " had come from her documentary work from having worked with and spoken to various female survivors, and she talked about how the worst thing that you could hear from an attacker or an abuser was that they were sorry. In the scene, Fred apologises for the "discomforts" June faced in his home, which is a very understated way to describe monthly state-sanctioned rapes.Įlisabeth Moss explained it was that apology that informed June's decisions. Why did June go to visit Fred?Įven Fred was shocked by June's visit to his prison cell/Canadian day spa room. Turns out, he is also willing to help her get it.īoth men have been hard to read all season as they've been towing the line, but this was an outright attack on Gilead. Meanwhile, Nick loves June, and he has a better understanding of her intense need for revenge than Luke does. If he didn't know about Nick and June's plan for Fred, he's no doubt going to be pretty impressed to learn about it.īut it also works in Gilead's favour to turn off the leaky tap that was Fred's mouth.
He admires her and respects the lengths she is willing to go to (remember his sly mention of the poisoned Commanders at Jezabels?). Joseph has been intent on fixing Gilead from the inside out this season, but he's always been sympathetic to June. Joseph had a personal vendetta against Fred, because it was Fred's insistence that he perform 'the ceremony' with June that ultimately led to his wife Eleanor's suicide in season three. We don't know if Joseph knew this was going to happen or if he had any idea of Nick and June's plan, but he had no problem facilitating Fred's death. When Fred makes it to the border, he is met by Joseph, who is then claimed by Nick on behalf of the Eyes. She knows he's right so, somehow (I hope we get the backstory of this next season because it would be so interesting), June makes a second deal with Nick. (Also, side note: protect Emily at all costs!) Blessed be the helpful Commanders.įred's death was able to take place because of two key Gilead allies: Joseph and Nick (and also Nick's eyebrows).Īfter Joseph, June and Tuello have discussed his offer - 22 women of the resistance in exchange for Fred - Joseph tells June that no matter what Gilead does to Fred, she won't be satisfied. June turned the group into an angry army, and they just won their first battle. She was very uncomfortable with June turning their trauma meetings into uh, revenge fantasies.
Despite her own Gilead trauma, Moira has been following a path of forgiveness and acceptance, rather than seeking out the revenge that June's been desperate for. Moira too is unlikely to ever accept June (and Emily's) actions here. After this, he's unlikely to want to know her anymore. And in the finale, as he slid down the wall in distress, he came face-to-face with a fact he's probably already known for a while: This isn't the June he married. I think in episode nine he let a bit of her go, when he encouraged her to visit Nick in an attempt to get Hannah back. Luke, to his credit, has been trying his very best since June escaped Gilead and the way in which he's gently navigated her trauma has been admirable and really lovely. What does June mean? Does she intend to go on the run? Will she swing by Tuello's house again and hand herself in? Was the revenge worth having to tear herself from one of her children yet again? What exactly is the legal ramifications for crimes committed in apparent no-man's-land? Or does June simply know that through this action, she has stepped over a line where Luke and Moira can never reach her? This is the biggest question of them all. She killed her chance at a as 'normal a life' as she could've hoped for, in Canada with her daughter and friends. We've watched four seasons of Fred Waterford be an abusive, righteous idiot, and he's now, finally, paid the price for his actions at the hands of those whom he enslaved, both directly and via the regime he helped implement.īut we're now left with a huge question: what happens next?
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The finale was the most satisfying the series has ever given us. "Just give me five minutes with her and then I'll go." When Luke found her, he knew what she'd done. Returning to Luke's house, still smeared with Fred's blood, June cuddled daughter Nichole.