Editor’s Note: The following contains The Handmaid’s Tale Season 5 spoilers.One of The Handmaid’s Tale’s most profound achievements is the nuance with which it portrays female relationships.
June (Elizabeth Moss) has cultivated many strong bonds with allies over the past 5 seasons, and she has also made some powerful enemies.
Another prominent female figure, Serena Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski) is typically shown to keep her cards close to her chest, so her relationships with her supposed friends in Gilead, or with her husband, are not always as they appear.
In this season, since her husband’s death and subsequent relocation to Toronto, her focus has become more centered around her pregnancy.
June and Serena are equally haunted by their past lives in Gilead, and their stories are riddled with hatred even as they each start new chapters in Canada.
Even though they want to be freed from one another, their pathways continue to overlap.
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