Gilead’s head handmaid is preparing her return.
Hulu released the trailer for Season Five of The Handmaid’s TaleThe streamer will drop the following September 14: And, though June (Elisabeth Moss) is safely ensconced in Canada, she’s prepping for a return to the country that stole her child Hannah (Jordana Blake).
“They’re not going to be looking for somebody going back into Gilead,”She thinks. Indeed, under his eye.
In the full-length trailer, we find June right where we left her after the events of season four—high off her brutal murder of her former Commander, Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes).
Evidently, her Canadian friends and family know that she has been pushed to a place she cannot return from. June tells Luke (the wife):O-T Fagbenle(Whatever she likes) “her”—a.k.a. Waterford’s pregnant widow SerenaYvonne Strahovski)—to know she killed Fred, Luke responds with audacity.
“Do you want her to come after us?”As June opens a letter, he recoils. “Offred”— her old name as a handmaid.
As old friends like Moira (Samira Wiley) question June too, showrunner Bruce MillerJune says she is in a precarious moral standing.
“She’s in an incredibly extreme position—so we have to push her,”He says it. Vanity Fair. “The way we [all] look at it is, What would happen to a real person in this situation?”