They will continue to come for us, June (Elisabeth Moss) tells her mother (Cherry Jones) in The series finale in Hulus “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The uprising that June led to Gilead has anything but crushed the key figures of the fascist regime, but she knows an evil that powerful will not die quietly. Although the government is crumbling, June does not still return with her daughter Hannah, who was taken from her to grew up as a pious Gileadean when the dictatorship began.
It is on the not-all-hoped note that the series based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel with the same name the final-friably realistic conclusion to a show that for six seasons has reflected the US slip in autocracy and erosion of women’s rights.
“Handmaid’s Tale” debuted just a few months after President Trump started his first term, and the image of red -clad women who was forced into reproductive waiter became a haunt for an administration that would continue to overturn Roe v. Wade. According to the series creator Bruce MillerAs everything happened by chance.
“Much of the credit goes to Margaret,” he said. “The book she wrote was not timeless, but every time I read it, (I would think),” Oh, this is the perfect time and put it out when the moral majority and Jerry Falwell rise in power. “I think it’s more a function of her being able to put her finger on the eternal conflicts between society and gender and misogyny and male power.”
Yahlin Chang, who was Co-Showrunner with Eric Tuchman on Season 6 and joined the series as a writer in Season 2, pointed out that while Atwood’s book is dystopian fiction, it is deeply rooted in reality. “Margaret said she never did
All up, “Chang said.” So we also didn’t try to do anything. I think that’s why the show feels realistic – because we imagined what would happen to authoritarians responsible or people with authoritarian slopes. “
To Hulus credit, the Exec producers said, they never felt censored, even when they wrote plot lines involving genital mutilation, poisoning and hangings. The streaming service was determined to create a drama that could compete with everything HBO did. And it succeeded: 2017 won “The Handmaid’s Tale” the outstanding drama series Emmy and became the first (and still only) streaming series to do it. (It continued to win 15 total Primetime Emmys.
“It’s hard to realize how much they protected the show, how much they fought for the show and went to the carpet for us,” Miller said.
Of course, none of that would have worked without the Emmy-winning performance of Moss, as well as Exec-produced and directed 10 of the series’ 66 episodes. “Lizzies directed a couple of my scripts, and no one is approaching their work as a director with more consideration and preparation,” Tuchman said. “When I knew that Lizzie was going to direct section 9 (this season), which is a great episode-very much spectacle and really intense two-handers between people-wise I was in the best possible hands because she cares so much.”
Wounding such a complex, brutal story after almost ten years was not easy, especially considering the high expectations of the show’s vocal fans. When Chang and Tuchman spoke with Thewrap, the final had not yet been broadcast, and both seemed nervous that the viewers would be angry that they killed great characters. “We really wanted to do justice to our fans,” Chang said. “At the same time, we know that we do not give them everything they want, and that is difficult.”
Miller still insisted that they always knew where they were going from the beginning: with Moss looking into the camera and began to tell the story that has occurred for six seasons. Click on a tape recorder then heard: “My name is offred.” The conclusion revolves back to the very first episode of Season 1, when we first heard that click.
“It was a matter of how many things will happen in between and make sure they ended up in a place where it made sense to their characters,” said Miller, who is currently working onThe will“The Spinoff series
Based on Atwood’s sequel 2019, which focuses on Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd).
“It has always been the natural place for June: ‘It is valuable to me and worth it for me to tell that story. It will be difficult, and there will be loss in
That, but it will make you realize how strong people can be. “”
This story first ran in the drama issue of Thewrap’s Awards Magazine. Read more from the question here.
