This show is going around in circles.
Warning: contains spoilers forThe Handmaids Taleseason 6 episode 2 Exile.
Emotionally,The Handmaids Talerarely misses, but structurally, it isnt always what youd call elegant.
Exile didnt so much progress the plot as reverse it.
Similarly, Nicks decision to finally relent and spy for the US?
Can June persuade him back into the fight?
Well, she did every other time this exact thing has happened.
Fans are used toThe Handmaids Talegoing around in circles, so Exile leaves us with a familiar feeling.
At least its screeching-brake 360 turns are for a good cause.
Jones did a lot with a little.
Initially, they were careful with each other, tentative rather than familiar.
The carefulness dropped away and the old mother-daughter dynamic reasserted itself as past resentments bubbled up.
you’re free to see why shed think that.
Fathers, not mothers, were the focus in the rest of the episode.
Hes chucking his lot in with New Bethlehem and choosing his future over his past.
In the aptly named idyllic faith-led community of Canaan, Serena remembered her late father.
Unlikeher mother Pamela(who is, I suppose, still out there somewhere?
), Serenas dad seemed kind and supportive.
Yvonne Strahovski was magnificent in Serenas grace-saying scene, and really sold the intoxicating high of a messiah complex.
Quoting Jeremiah 29:14 to equate herself with biblical exiles, she was buzzing on God.
Blessed day, indeed.
Lets see just how long Gileads commanders allow her to stand in her power.
The Handmaids Taleseason six streams on Tuesdays on Hulu in the US.
It will air on Channel 4 in the UK at a later date.
