[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale series finale.]
The Handmaid’s Story introduced an authentic star again within the sequence finale in a giant shock for followers. The transfer to convey this character again for one last scene made for a pleasant second of reconnection within the after of Mayday’s liberation of Boston seen within the penultimate episode of the sequence.
Alexis Bledel returned as Emily within the sequence finale, titled “The Handmaid’s Story,” out there on Hulu as of Could 27 at 12 a.m. ET/9 p.m. PT. Emily was a fixture of The Handmaid’s Story from the very first episode up till her surprising exit within the Season 4 finale. Season 5 started with a proof of Emily’s absence when June (Elisabeth Moss) reconnected with Emily’s spouse, Sylvia (Clea DuVall), who revealed that she had returned to Gilead to struggle for the resistance and seek out Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd). Emily was by no means heard from or seen once more. However that modified in The Handmaid’s Story sequence finale. Bledel’s Emily seems in a scene with June within the episode.
Emily reemerged in Boston after the state was liberated, discovering June on one of many pathways they used to stroll throughout their strolls as strolling companions. She revealed that she’s been in a close-by city all this time preventing for the resistance from the within. Like June, Emily’s nonetheless linked along with her household, however it’s an advanced dynamic nonetheless full of affection. The ladies visited the Wall and noticed inspiring messages painted by ladies who survived Gilead’s rule in Boston. This was juxtaposed by the hanging our bodies of Gilead Eyes on the opposite finish of the Wall. Former showrunner Bruce Miller, who wrote the sequence finale, tells TV Insider that they all the time wished to convey Emily again for the tip.
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“Alexis has an advanced schedule and an advanced life, and it didn’t work out that it was time to do it till the tip,” Miller says. “She moved heaven and earth to stand up to us, and so there have been much more sensible issues than character and emotional issues.”
“I all the time wished to know what occurred to the character that she was taking part in, Emily, but additionally she was so central to June for therefore lengthy,” he continues. “Even earlier than the present began, they have been strolling companions. So there was one thing about bringing her again on the finish that if June was going to re-experience that a part of her life, it felt prefer it was unimaginable to do with out that individual as a result of with out understanding that each of them had made it out, you couldn’t imagine within the unimaginable being attainable. However the two of them collectively, each being alive and free actually, I believe was the one factor that June and the viewers actually didn’t count on to happen. I hope.”
Bledel received an Emmy for her efficiency in The Handmaid’s Story Season 1, which noticed her character expertise a number of the present’s most annoying physique horror, such because the surgical removing of her clitoris as punishment for preventing again towards these in Gilead making an attempt to interrupt her and the opposite trapped handmaids.
Emily went on to flee Gilead with June’s assist and make a brand new life in Canada, however reconnecting along with her spouse and their son was an extended and tough course of. She dedicated herself to it nonetheless earlier than feeling the urge to return to Gilead and try to take down the regime from the within.
One other presumed-dead character got here again within the Season 6 premiere: Holly, June’s mom performed by Cherry Jones, who had beforehand solely been seen in flashbacks.
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