[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers from Episodes 1 and 2 of “The Handmaid’s Tale” Season 2.]In the first two episodes of Season 2, we don’t see one of the locations where “The Handmaid’s Tale” spent much of its time in Season 1: the Waterford house, essentially the prison of Offred/June (Elisabeth Moss), a woman trapped by a brutal regime.
“We don’t live at the Waterford house.
Our world is so much larger than that, particularly in Season 2,” executive producer Warren Littlefield said.Instead, the journey of Offred/June goes entirely new places, from ballparks to airports to the Colonies and beyond, which presented no shortage of filmmaking challenges for the show.
In addition, the production team was dealing with the physical brutalities of life in Gilead — from simulated torture to self-mutilation.
The behind-the-scenes difficulties, both emotional, practical, and legal, were momentous, though as Littlefield and Moss explained to IndieWire, returning for a second season after the unprecedented success of its first season
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