Warning: This post contains spoilers for the season 2 finale ofThe Handmaids Tale.

Season 2 ofThe Handmaids Talespent much of its time on the edge.

The disappointment of Junes decision comes at the end of a generally successful sophomore season.

The Word

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Even the brutality, which reached baroque levels at times, felt compelling and necessary.

Still, some ofHandmaidsedges are beginning to fray.

has left the character in a kind ofWestworld-ian narrative loop.

And The Word got so close!

All June had to do was climb onto the back of that truck with Emily and baby Nicole.

A slow death in the Colonies?

The fresh hell of a new Commander?

Systematic psychological torture waged by Aunt Lydia (if she survives Emilys knife attack, that is)?