Warning: This publish accommodates spoilers for The Handmaid’s Story‘s Season 5 finale.
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The Handmaid’s Story‘s Season 5 finale ended with a darkly comedian twist: Although June has spent the majority of the Hulu collection’ run attempting to distance herself from her former captor Serena, the 2 girls coincidentally ran into one another as they have been escaping Toronto — younger kids in tow — on the identical refugee prepare in Episode 10’s remaining scene. (Learn a full recap.)
“I feel the truth that the 2 girls type of ended up collectively in a approach that each one of us have on JetBlue is the type of factor that you really want for our characters,” showrunner Bruce Miller joked to TVLine.
We picked Miller’s mind about what was stated — and unsaid — throughout the brief-yet-fraught scene, and why that second within the prepare automobile represents a primary for Elisabeth Moss’ and Yvonne Strahovski’s characters. Learn on to listen to his ideas. (And while you’re executed, try our dialog with Moss, who additionally directed the episode.)
TVLINE | I’m watching the finale, and I hear that child crying on the prepare, and I begin cackling. I had written in my notes earlier, “WHERE IS SERENA?” However in that second, I knew!
Nicely, it’s very cool, isn’t it?
TVLINE | When did that come into your head, that you just needed the season to finish with these two and their youngsters on the prepare?
The season was a lot about June and Serena dancing round one another and discovering out that, you recognize, although they’ve an advanced relationship, they have a relationship. So, the season was at all times about that. So the capper on the tip, this second, it was spectacularly simple to determine who was going to be in it. As I used to be beginning to consider the tip, to consider June and Luke having to flee once more and what that was like… It got here up due to Episode 7. Once I after I learn Episode 7, Rachel Shukert’s episode — that was her first script on the present, the episode the place June and Serena are collectively and Serena is giving beginning. So, God bless Rachel for being a implausible author and a fast examine.
However after that episode, simply seeing the dailies, truly, the connection between the 2 girls, the constructive emotional connection that might coexist with all the actual venom and vengeance, shocked me… You don’t actually understand how far Lizzie [Moss] and Yvonne [Strahovski]’s character have come since they’ve had a scene collectively, or a actual scene collectively, an sincere scene collectively. So, having all these issues that appeared so scrumptious — the beginning scene! I imply, after that was over, you’re like, “Nicely, it looks as if this story can’t be overkill. These two magnets click on once more.” I don’t know what’s going to occur, however it does really feel like the tip of that story is these two folks discovering one another once more.
I used to be pondering via the story with Serena first pondering, nicely, she desires to go someplace the place she’s nameless, the place having no id, nobody would blink at that, and the place there’s lots of people and the place I can get the hell out of Toronto… It simply made this excellent sense that they each have precisely the identical want, so that they’d find yourself in the identical place. After which, as soon as once more, they each have little youngsters. And when you have got little youngsters, on a conveyance, you’re not sitting down, ever. [Laughs] You’re strolling round and you may hear the opposite infants. You understand who has a child, and you recognize if yours is the worst one. [Laughs]
… I feel each of them are relieved to see a well-known face, which is the purpose of the season is that they’re familiars. They’re they aren’t buddies, they aren’t colleagues. They’ve executed all these items. They’re none of these issues, however they are in one another’s lives, they usually know one another greater than a stranger — and that has worth. On this specific second, seeing not a pleasant face, however a acquainted face, is what that second is about. And so they’re in the identical boat. And it’s simply I simply love that they’re, you recognize, they’re each on the underside. Often, it’s the opposite approach round for them.
TVLINE | The entire episode is gutting.
What in regards to the automobile stuff, although? Didn’t Lizzie do a superb job with the automobile accident?
TVLINE | Sure — and the sensation of foreboding main as much as it! Because the digicam did that 360-degree pan, I used to be like, “One thing horrible goes to occur.”
“What the f—ok!” [Laughs] Yeah.
TVLINE | It’s a sunny, good day! What might go unsuitable?
She’s carrying that cute yellow prime. What might occur? How dangerous might it’s? [Laughs]
