The last season of "The Handmaid's Tale" had Explosive deaths and a Deadly weddingBut the last episode is slow and impressionist, rather than a crescent climate plot. June is mostly walking around the newly liberated Boston, thinking about her past, present and future - and even an alternative reality where Gilead's ladies led normal lives by singing karaoke to "Stevie Knicks' landslide". A good part of the last ten minutes of the episode is only June, walking the stairs of the Waterford's charred home in slow movement. To date in the series, the use of molassed edits and extreme circles has lost its poetic state, becoming self -satisfied and bordering the parody.

While scenes with feedback on dialogue, uniting and goodbye scenes are intended to reward fans, they feel very forced. Serena begs June for forgiveness; June thanks Aunt Lydia for her latest act of heroism in the release of the maids; Emily makes a random recurrence and reveals that he works for resistance together; Luke and June admit that their relationship is irreparable. Each of these carefully constructed exchanges shouts: "This is the last episode!"

Everything is quickly rounded up in an orderly small bow, which is ironically exactly why the creator of the show Bruce Miller said Hollywood reporter That the happy ending with June finding her daughter Hannah was never in cards. The show only focuses on "June travel from a maid to freedom. The question of how she renews the family feels like another step." It is unsatisfactory not to see June reunification with Hannah or to make only a small tooth in the fall of Gilead, yet this end can be the most realistic - and the most relevant - given our current political climate. Is hope and happiness an antidote we need now, or would you feel insincere?

The final offers a small catharsis and is more than an introspective and artistic shot to return to the beginning of the story in June. The scene where June Tells tells her mother that Boston's release is just the beginning of Gilead's overthrow is the most original part of the episode. It transmits why the "maid story" moves away from the offer of any false hope or too optimistic closure:

"But the thing is, Mom, I'm no Safe. You will never stop coming for us. And, even when they disappear, they will come for our children and grandchildren. The fight may not bring us everything, but we have no choice. Because no The fight is what made us Gilead in the first place. "

June buns for not fighting back, remember her voice in the third episode of season 1:

"I was awake now.

It seems that today, in America, we are just as deep in that boiled tub. Soaked in this scale of water, it is difficult to visualize the future where the next generations will escape the ideological damage that deepens with each passing day, pushing us to authoritarianism.

Back in 2017, /Movie writer Joai-Tran Bui He welcomed the then new series as politically relevant. That political similarity has only grown. Under Donald Trump's second term, America seems closer to Gilead than ever. The Rowe's overturn against Wade and the ban on transgender men and women from the military was just the beginning.

Now, Donald Trump deports immigrants without the right process; It is a frozen federal funding for prestigious universities such as Harvard, dusting programs exploring children's cancer; He banned the Associated Press from covering major events because they disagree with his administration. Even more alarming, he was openly discussed to remain an unconstitutional third term. These are attacks on our most basic rights: to exist, to educate and speak freely. The road to fascism is paved in front of our eyes.

In the latest footage of "The Handmaid's Tale", June begins to write her story. She looks directly at the camera with a established starter and says, "My name is out." This is her way of warning the audience: this is in your hands now. Open your eyes and do something - or you'll end up like me.

A series of sequels, "Testaments" He will follow his daughter on June, Hannah and the real end of Gilead. If it also lasts eight years, it is difficult to say where America's political landscape will be by the end. Would we be saved, or will you just get worse? The Handmaid's Tale final may have no final conclusion, but its message is the one we need to hear. We long for the shine of hope and the belief that oppression can end up happily, but the only way we can do it in real life is if, as June says, we wake up and do as much as possible to fight.