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The supreme line from writer and showrunner Bruce Miller was June’s, “They know what he was, what he did and how it felt, they made a deal with him anyway. Even outside of Gilead, the system failed to deliver what it owed a woman abused by a man with power. The searing shame, and surely the point, is that June was forced to make that choice at all. Even though it dropped a bomb on her family, she chose justice. In ‘The Wilderness’, June was made to choose between acceptance and justice, to decide between the “count our blessings” and “out of sight, out of mind” homilies of Luke and Rita, and her visceral need for retribution. This show’s no slouch on that front either. June’s not the only one who takes the big swings. That’s where it started – with Esther Keyes stabbing her abuser to death and then crawling into June’s maternal embrace – and that’s where it’s ended – with baby Nichole smeared in the blood of her mother’s now-dead rapist. Anybody expecting a healing arc for post-escape June will have been left wanting, because season four was all about revenge. It’s no wonder this whole season has been lit like a séance thematically it started dark, and it stayed that way. This The Handmaid’s Tale review contains spoilers.
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