[This story contains spoilers for the Season 5 premiere of Hulu The Handmaid’s Tale . ]
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Commander Fred Watford (Joseph Fiennes).
Elisabeth Moss – starring in series 5th season reunites with June (Moss) is right where the audience left her – hugging her youngest daughter Nichole while covered in Fred’s blood and ignoring her husband Luke (OT Fagbenle) while internally plotting her next move. The prologue follows Joan away from the home she recently returned from her escape from Gilead and embarks on a journey that first sees her reconnecting with the women who helped her avenge her Gilead abuser and Joan’s former commander as she considers whether or not to Does not admit guilt.
But one of Joan’s maids, Emily ( Alexis Bledel ), missing from the party. As Joan searches her home for her friends and survivors, Emily’s wife (Clea Duvall) tells Joan that Emily decided to go back to Gilead to fight and find Aunt Lydia (Ann Dovell). De), she calls to say goodbye to her family, which includes a young son. When Joan tries to save Emily, Sylvia (Duvall) tells Joan to stop chasing her, believing that they will never see Emily again. “That’s what she needs to do,” Sylvia said. June feels Emily’s actions are her fault, but Sylvia describes it as a tragic but failed cause: “It’s okay, she’s gone.”
While the fifth season is in the process of being produced, the series’ original star, Bledel, announced that she is leaving The Handmaid’s Tale after four seasons. “After much deliberation, I felt like I had to leave The Handmaid’s Tale at this time,” said the actress, who has been nominated for four Emmys and won four Emmy nominations for her role as a Resistance fighter, said in a statement in May . “I am forever grateful to [showrunner] Bruce Miller for writing such a real and resonant scene for Emily and Hulu, Michael May, cast and crew support.”
In talking to Bruce Miller about how they handled Gilmore Girls alum’s Exit, the creators and showrunners said they wrote their feelings into Emily’s finale on the show.
“[Alexis] made this decision entirely on her own; it was a complicated time, and she let me know,” Miller told The Hollywood Reporter . “What I was trying to do was process it with how we were feeling at the time. It was like, ‘Oh my gosh. “So I think, in some ways, real emotions shake the dog.”
The Handmaid’s Tale , fourth Season, depicts life after trauma as it follows in Canada as a refugee in Gilead The surviving maids have taken in those who wished them a better life. While Emily’s escape reunites her with the family she thought she had left, it’s difficult for the maid to return to normal given the brutality and abuse she experienced during her time in Gilead.
“It doesn’t feel healthy, but it feels right,” Miller said of Emily’s decision to return to Gilead and keep fighting, even if it means she may not Will it be possible to survive there alone. Once she’s captured, the punishment for the commander involved in the murder could see Gilead put Emily on the wall.
“We’ve been planning and assuming this character will be there [season five], so when we lost Alexis, he was so important in our family part of it, you will feel the same way,” he continued. “There’s a feeling that this guy actually ran away from home, what’s going on? Emotionally, we tracked it down for all of us. But I think it made sense to her from a story perspective. When I watched season 4 – when I rewatched our show obsessively – it felt like an inevitable ending for her. If she was going to do something after Fred, she Not just sitting around waiting for the next guy to jump into her trap; she’s going hunting.”
Emily (Alexis Bledel) and Joan (Elisabeth Moss) appear in The Handmaid’s Tale fourth Season finale. gourd 1235210841
Although Emily’s fate seems Terrible, but Miller made it clear that should Bledel want to get back on the show, he’d happily continue Emily’s story for season six, most recently 1234957790 was announced as the last installment in the hit series that won an Emmy and an MGM production .
And, even if Bledel doesn’t return, Emily’s influence will reverberate – as her decision deeply affected Joan, who starred at the time when the maid started her The fifth season of the course. The premiere eventually saw Joan confess to the police murder of Fred, only to be told she was free to leave since the act took place outside Canadian jurisdiction. How June views the lack of punishment will influence bigger decisions in the future.
“Emily is still a big part of this year’s story,” Miller explained, hinting that things in June will wrestle as the season progresses. “In the beginning, Joan was rudderless without Emily, and it felt like she could easily be that person and disappear. Until then, it was just an intellectual exercise. Alexis’ character seemed very Important, it’s a dangerous story for June. And Joan spent all season asking herself if Emily was right: “Well, if Emily thinks that’s right, I’m going to feel bad, maybe this will make me feel better? ‘”
The first two episodes of the fifth season of The Handmaid’s Tale premiere every Wednesday on Hulu. Hear Miller talk about the series’ perpetual on THR TV’s Top 5 Podcast
