![]() ![]() What’s interesting is that I have some support for the idea that the show we were watching was very different from the one all involved thought they were making - from the show’s actors and producers themselves. Was the show we were watching different from the show the creative team thought they were making? June contemplates a handgun. But alas, we ended up with something very, very different and much messier. Imperfect but interested in difficult questions about where the dividing line is between terrorist and revolutionary, and trying to figure out just how far gone June Osborne is. This is what I wanted season three to be, I thought. (Also, music by Mazzy Star, courtesy of their mournful song “Into Dust,” was a nice step outside of the show’s usual troll-y hits.) While I would not call “Mayday” a perfect episode of television, from the moment that plane of kids landed in Canada - where they were greeted (somewhat improbably, but whatever) by Luke, Moira, and Emily - to the moment June closed her eyes to rest, possibly for eternity, I was all-in in a way I rarely have been this season. Such an episode is “Mayday,” which is an altogether stronger finale than the weak closer that capped off The Handmaid’s Tale season two, if not quite to the level of the season one ending. It’s as if, for a brief moment, the show has provided a glimpse into an alternate universe where the season was everything it could have been. ![]() This week, critic at large Emily VanDerWerff and staff writer Constance Grady discuss “Mayday,” the third season finale.Įmily VanDerWerff: Watching a largely satisfying finale to a season of TV that never quite came together can feel like watching the ending of a different story than the one previously being told. Every week, a few members of the Vox Culture team gather to talk out the latest episode of The Handmaid’s Tale, Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel. ![]()
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