After eight years and six seasons, The Handmaid’s Tale has finally reached the final page. The Hulu series stretched Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel into a long saga, following June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) as she tried to survive life as a Handmaid in the ultra-religious regime known as Gilead. In the last episodes of Season 6, it seemed like everything was pointing to a happy ending, with many Gilead commanders dying in two different rebel attacks.
But in the final episode, June falls victim to one of the greatest flaws in the series’ writing: her inability to allow herself to finally leave the place that harmed her so much.
