The finale of the fairy tale “early maid” is a hot mess, but its final message is worth it

Last season’s “Tale of the Servant” was Explosive death and A deadly weddingBut the last episode is slow and impressionistic, not a cunning storyline. June is mostly wandering around the recently liberated Boston, thinking about its past, the present and the future – and even about the alternative reality, where the houses of the Gilead led a normal life, singing the karaoke of Stevi Nix “Land.” A good piece of the last ten minutes of episode is only June, which was walking on the stairs of Waterford’s burnt home in slow motion. By this point in the series, the use of mantaps and extreme major plans has lost its poetry, becoming a self -consuming and bordering with a parody.

While the dialogue is heavy calling, meetings and goodbye designed to reward fans, they feel very forced. Serena asks June for forgiveness; June thanks Aunt Lydia for the last act of heroism in the release of employees; Emily does a random appearance and shows that it works for resistance; Luke and June admit that their relationship is irreparable. Each of these carefully constructed exchanges yells: “This is the last episode!”

Everything is quickly completed in a neat little bow that is irony of fate Hollywood reporter What a happy ending when June found his daughter Hannah was never in the cards. The show focuses solely on “the June way from the maid to freedom. The question of how she restores her family felt a completely different step.” The unsatisfactory does not see the June reunion with Hannah or make only a small dent in the fall of Gileado, but this end can be the most realistic – and most relevant – given our current political climate. Hope and the happiness we need now, now, will it feel insincere?

The final offers Little Catharsis and is more intricacular and shot back to the beginning of June. A scene where Jun tells the mother that the release of Boston is just the beginning of the breakdown of Gileado, is the real part of the episode. He conveys why the “fairy tale of the maid” gets rid of any false hope or an excessively optimistic closure:

“But the thing is mom, I no Safe. You also don’t. They are never going to stop coming to us. And even when we left, they will come to our children and our grandchildren. Fighting may not get us everything, but we have no choice. As no Fighting is something that forced us in the first place. “

Observations in June that it does not refuse to remember its voicing in the third episode 1 season:

“Now I woke up from the world. I slept before. That’s how we allowed it. If they stabbed Congress, we did not wake up. When they accused terrorists and suspended the Constitution, we also woke up. They said it would be temporarily changed.

It seems today, in America, we are just as deep in this boiling bath. Suddening into this large -scale water, it is difficult to imagine the future when the next generations avoid ideological damage that deepens every day, pushing us to authoritarianism.

Back in 2017, /Writer of the movie Hoai-Tran Bui She welcomed the series at the time as politically relevant. This political similarity has only grown. Under the second term, Donald Trump America seems closer to Gileado than if -no. Cancellation of roe v. Wade and the ban on transgender men and women from the military were just the beginning.

Now Donald Trump Department of Immigrants Without proper process; It is frozen federal financing for prestigious universities such as Harvard, programs that are engaged in the study of children; He forbade the Associated Press to cover serious events as they disagree with his administration. Even more alarming, it is openly discussed while remaining on an unconstitutional third term. These are attacks on our most basic rights: to exist, to be educated and talking freely. The way to fascism is laid to our eyes.

In the latest picture, “Tales of the Sunny” on June begins to write its story. She looks directly into the camera with a decisive look and says, “My name is.” This is her way to warn the audience: it’s now in your hands. Open your eyes and do anything – either you end up as I am.

The series is a sequel, “Commandments“ Hannah’s daughter and the real end of Gileado will follow the daughter of June. If it also works for eight years, it is difficult to say where the political landscape of America will be. Will we save ourselves or worse? In the finale “Tale of the maid” may miss the final conclusion, but his message is what we have to hear. We crave hope and belief that oppression can end joyfully, but the only way to achieve this in real life when, as June says, we wake up and do as much as we can fight.