“The Handmaid's Tale”, season 6: If dystopia becomes a reality
Back then at the first season, 2016, feltlike a dark future vision:
- After a overthrow, the United States was converted into a Christian-foundal Republic of Gilead.
- Women and minorities were withdrawn rights.
- A male policy elite decided on life and body.
When the last season of the series starts in April 2025, the world looks different:
- After a democratic election, the United States pursues the plan“Project 2025”, which has developed the strictly conservative thought factory “The Heritage Foundation” and which the blueprint for the politics of the actingis.
- Women and minorities were withdrawn rights.
- A male policy elite decides on life and body.
The biggest differences: there was and does not exist civil war on the North American continent, there was no nuclear strike that made women sterile. And otherwise?Life imitating artIf you ask me, so: life does art. Some parallels are exaggerated, but - -oh boy –Do not take women seriouslywho deal with their own body, to gradually delete minorities from memory, to rewrite history, act isolationistically and ultraconservativeto rule - that's close to one, of which nobody thought that she could ever become a reality. But that's how our present is, so runs in 2025.
At this point you can only hope that the last season ofNot a blueprint for our near future - or that of women in the USA. But from the front.
“The Handmaid's Tale”, season 6: That's what the final episodes are about
Short reminder: The protagonists of the series, June (Elisabeth Moss) and Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski) are on the run on the same train - in front of Gilead and before the now, sometimes xenophobic Canadians: Inside, who no longer want to record refugees from Gilead. And even if Serena Joy pretends to want to help June, she, her, her former mistress and her arch enemy, trust her only to a limited extent. Just when it comes to her life as a mother, June understands andFor the former Gilead supporter, who has now been able to experience first-hand how oppression and patronizing feel.
Continue on the journey to the west: The train with the two women is full, overcrowded and takes course on the apparently last safe harbor of the women fled from Gilead on the North American continent, Alaska. But not only June does not trust the privileged Serena Joy: all people in the train hate them and call her a traitor. To save her from a lynch murder, June might intervene one last time - and falls into an uncertain future Serena Joy and her baby Noah in which the opportunistic traitor Ms. Waterford may really have to be on her own feet for the first time.
In season 6 they are both on the run: June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) and Serena Joy Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski).
HuluBut here the history of the two women does not end: in the last season of “The Handmaid's Tale” it is about your own future and that everyone else, it is about freedom and friendship, survival and morality. June and Serena Joy are symbols for different moral settings. That is why “The Handmaid's Tale” is always about how far you want or can go to enforce your own goals, so ethically correct or incorrect.
Whether June and Serena stillbecome? Unclear. But so much can be revealed at this point: June is an absolute role model when it comes toandgoes. It doesn't give up. Never. And it does not rebel for itself,herChildren orherFamily - but she does it for all women. So that everyone has a better life and a better future - it costs what it wants.
“The Handmaid's Tale”, season 6: When and where are the new episodes run?
On April 8, 2025, the last episodes of “The Handmaid's Tale” will start. At the same time as the US broadcast, the episodes will also be available in Germany every week. Exclusive home of the series is again this time the streaming service from T-Online, Magenta.
On these days, new episodes of “The Handmaid's Tale”, seasons 6 are available in the stream:
- 8. April 2025:“Train”
- 8. April 2025:“Exile”
- 8. April 2025:“Devotion”
- 15. April 2025:“Promotion”
- 22. April 2025:“Janine”
- 29. April 2025:“Surprise”
- 6. May 2025:“Shattered”
- 13. May 2025:"Exodus"
- 20. May 2025:“Execution”
- 27. May 2025:“The Handmaid's Tale”
“The Handmaid's Tale”, season 6: Is that really the end of the series?
Good news: No, the story around June, Baby Nichole and daughter Hannah will continue. Because the successor novel too“The Handmaid’s Tale”It is also filmed: the production of “The Testament” has been running since April 7, 2025. The book in German"The witnesses"Means, published in 2019, author Margaret Atwood had been passed between the two books for almost 35 years. However, neither of them lost its topicality.
“The Testaments” will be about Junes and Luke's daughter Hannah, who lives in Gilead as Agnes in another family because she was taken away at the same time her biological, non-Gilead-compliant parents with June's obligation to handmaid in season 1.
Does that mean that June Hannah in “The Handmaid's Tale” can no longer hug in her arms? After all, the plan to be able to free Hannah from Gilead and to be able to hug again, Junes Motor over the last five seasons ... But here there can be cautious all -clear: Because “The Testament” tells in pregnancy from the perspective of Aunt Lydia and Hannah/Agnes from Gilead.
“The Handmaid's Tale”, season 6: Who plays with?
- For the last episodes of the series, the line -up is largely the same, but there is also a well -known new addition. It is also noteworthy how physically and mentally fully all actors: look inside in front of the camera. Suppression, xenophobia and rebellion clearly demand their tribute (in real and in the series). In the last episodes there are:
- Elisabeth Moss als June Osborne
- Yvonne Strahovski as Serena Joy Waterford
- Madeline Brewer als Janine
- Ann Dowd als Tante Lydia
- Samira Wiley als Moira
- Max Minghella als Nick
- Ot FAGBENTLE ALS LUKE
- Joseph Whitford als Commander Lawrence
Josh Charles (“The Club of the Dead Poets”, “The Good Wife”), and there is also pretty sure there is also a reunion with old acquaintances, which are not revealed here.
“The Handmaid's Tale”, season 6: That's why you should see the series
The last season of “The Handmaid's Tale” inevitably heads for a showdown: June against Serena Joy, freedom against oppression. And no matter how this showdown goes out and whether the two will reconcile-so far there has been no epic women's duo in a drama series (raised the cat-and-mouse game in thriller format to a new level).
The two protagonists symbolically stand for so much more: they show what happens when you open and take for values and freedom. And they also show what happens if you just let everything do it and so clearly onAnd also loses quality of life.
The last episodes “The Handmaid's Tale” also use the aesthetics created by the series: Many women in red “Handmaid” robes in formation, many perfectly synchronous shots from a bird's eye view-they are images that remain and to be added to brutalism if they would map architecture.
“The Handmaid's Tale” was once a fictional series that was a dark picture of our future, in which fake latin was warned of bastards who only want to be evil. Today, “The Handmaid's Tale” feels a certain extent somewhat like reality and recalls us that we have to protect our free society more than ever before and early - so that the bastards cannot finish you. “Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum” forever.
