WARNING: This article contains spoilers from The Handmaid’s Tale season two, episode 10, titled The Last Ceremony.
The Handmaid’s Tale season two is nearing to the end and with just a handful of episodes left writer and producer Yahlin Chang has spoken about the last scenes of the series.
In The Last Ceremony, June, also known as Offred (played by Elizabeth Moss) was put on trial after pretending she was going into labour and was then brutally raped by her Commander (Joseph Fiennes) and his wife Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski).
Adding salt to the wound, June was finally reunited with her daughter Hannah (Jordana Blake), but was shocked to discover that she was nothing like the girl she knew.
June later found out Nick Blaine (Max Minghella), one of the few people she can trust, was arrested by Gilean authorities.
Now, June is alone and pregnant, but with more episodes still to come is there any hope things could get better for her?
Yahlin promised the three remaining episodes would contain “great moments of triumph and uplift”, but warned there would be some intense scenes.
The writer and producer also defended the show after some criticised it for being too dark and violent.
“It’s a marathon, not a sprint,” she told Vanity Fair. “Yes, you’ll have a dark episode — but we’re telling a story. It’s like a long novel with lots of chapters.
“You don’t get those huge feelings of triumph and uplift if you don’t have some sort of real honest, how-bad-the-world-gets-to-you moments.”
She went on to say that there were three major messages she hoped viewers would take from this series of The Handmaid’s Tale, particularly episode 10.
“It’s really wrong to rip children away from their mothers, and it’s really wrong to rape people,” she stated.
“With this particular episode, I think, those are two messages I would like to hammer home.”
The producer later added: “That love survives is an amazing thing… In a goofy way, it’s like love is the most powerful force in the universe, and love survives.
“That’s an incredible message. I’m going to add that as my third thing I want people to take away. It’s wrong to rape, wrong to rip kids from their mothers, and that love survives.”
Season two of The Handmaid’s Tale has a total of 13 episodes and is longer than the first series, which only had ten.
The Golden Globe winning drama will air its finale episode on July 11 on US streaming service Hulu and four weeks later in the UK.
Set in New England the series adapted from the Margaret Atwood’s book by the same name follows the journey of the handmaid Offred.
The programme explores themes of women in subjugation in a patriarchal society and their attempt to gain independence.
The Handmaid’s Tale season two airs on Hulu in the US and on Channel 4 in the UK.
