Oh, Canada
The Handmaid's Tale 4.7 "Home."
"Safe" in Canada, June has to deal with her situation...and her PTSD. Moira is trying to salvage her relationship with Una.
And, of course, Serena and Fred are back together, at least for now. June, you had the perfect opportunity to drive a spectacular wedge between them and didn't take it. Not that I blame you for a bit of tables-turning in that relationship.
Even a supermarket is a source of trauma...they do it very well. I'm pretty impressed with the acting through this.
The Handmaids Tale 4.8 "Testimony"
June must give a witness statement for the Waterfords' trial. Unfortunately, Fred manages to get some sympathy among a small number of Canadians.
Aunt Irene, who was responsible for Emily's mutilation, tries to get forgiveness...and kills herself when she fails.
This is about anger.
This is all about anger. Even back in Gilead, Lydia struggles to contain her temper and ends up hitting another Aunt with her cattle prod. Lawrence offers her Janine to torture, but she goes for her normal path of emotional manipulation and abuse instead, with the goal of fixing Janine...
They need all the Handmaids they can get, after all.
The Handmaid's Tale 4.9 "Progress"
Progress? Not exactly. Well, depends on your definition. Waterford has flipped like a domino, not because of June's testimony, but because he found out Gilead doesn't care about getting him back..and does care about acquiring his son and Serena (possibly as a Handmaid).
Esther...has been made a Handmaid, and goes on hunger strike until Janine convinces her that survival is resistance.
And June may have snapped. Waterford, after all, is going free after turning, shall we say, states witness, although perhaps she doesn't understand the circumstances he will face. I doubt it will be a pleasant freedom.
And possibly not a lasting one, but is June going to murder him?
The Avengers 2.13 "Death Dispatch"
This episode takes place entirely in the Caribbean. It being 1962, however, it was all filmed in England and there were zero Black people. One supposed Spanish speaker's accent switched randomly to German. Oh, and even for 1962, that's some gnarly stock footage.
The episode was apparently actually shot fourth and was the first one Blackman was in. Maybe that's why it was a little bit below average.
Either way, we have Chilean fascists plotting the murder of an American envoy, although it's never quite clear why.
Gale demonstrates fluency in Spanish...or at least fakes it well. I don't speak Spanish, so...and apparently neither do most of the actors as, per IMDB, the characters pronounce pájaros (birds) to actually mean haystack, and there's some other consistent mispronunciation there.
We find out Gale is an anthropologist and a widow. Steed definitely has interest in her, but it's not reciprocated.
A rather pedestrian episode...hoping the next one will be better.
The Handmaid's Tale 4.10 "The Wilderness"
Oh, well. This was always how that relationship was going to end. Waterford is supposed to testify in Geneva then be released.
June...has other ideas. She arranges for him instead to be swapped to Gilead for 21 resistance members...presumably from a colony.
And then gets Nick to instead deliver him to her so she and some former Handmaids and Marthas can deliver the state sanctioned punishment for rape in Gilead...being beaten to death by women.
Oh, and she mails Serena his finger and wedding ring. I would have included his dick too, just saying. I guess June has that effect on me.
What consequences will now come down on June and her family? Next season, we find out...