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** June enacting her plan to get kids out. Not only does it work without a hitch (with Rita making it to safety as well), June shows that she's not lost the ActionGirl chops she had when she took down High Commander Winslow by managing to get a Guardian at gunpoint and ultimately killing him once she gets what she needs out of him. And she does all this with a bullet in her back.
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** June enacting her plan to get kids out. Not only does it work without a hitch (with Rita making it to safety as well), June shows that she's not lost the ActionGirl chops she had when she took down High Commander Winslow by managing to get a Guardian at gunpoint and ultimately killing him once she gets what she needs out of him.him, in a bloody ''satisfying'' subversion of SwordOverHead. And she does all this with a bullet in her back.
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** Special mention has to go to the use of "Cloudbusting" by Music/KateBush as a soundtrack for the body disposal scene. A ''lot'' of viewers have stated it increased the CatharsisFactor for them.
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*** In addition, Tuello refers to June as 'June Osborne' when stating the charges. Serena, however, uses 'Offred' when trying to use the defense June and Nick were in a relationship. This is true, and it's implied Tuello does believe/already knew this. Except, them having a consensual sexual relationship doesn't make her threatening June with the colonies and potentially exerting her status over Nick and/or using his desire to protect June from the harm she could do to June to get them to conceive a baby any less coercive. Or to quote Tuello, "It's still rape."
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** After June shows she truly is willing to die for the mission by going on a solo attack against the Guardians to distract them from the kids, the other Handmaids and Marthas join her in what's essentially the particicution being turned against the government, throwing stones at them while all the kids are snuck onto the plane just feet away.
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* The season finale, as to be expected, has a number of these:
** Fred, of all people, gets one when he makes sure that Serena is implicated for her role in forcing Nick to have sex with June. Even if Fred's reasoning was to make sure she went down with him, it's satisfying to see her finally get what's coming to her.
** June being implicitly stated to be the leader of the resistance in Boston. She more or less asserts authority over Lawrence and is given respect by all of the Marthas and Handmaids working with her. Not bad for a woman in Gilead.
** June enacting her plan to get kids out. Not only does it work without a hitch (with Rita making it to safety as well), June shows that she's not lost the ActionGirl chops she had when she took down High Commander Winslow by managing to get a Guardian at gunpoint and ultimately killing him once she gets what she needs out of him. And she does all this with a bullet in her back.
** Fred, of all people, gets one when he makes sure that Serena is implicated for her role in forcing Nick to have sex with June. Even if Fred's reasoning was to make sure she went down with him, it's satisfying to see her finally get what's coming to her.
** June being implicitly stated to be the leader of the resistance in Boston. She more or less asserts authority over Lawrence and is given respect by all of the Marthas and Handmaids working with her. Not bad for a woman in Gilead.
** June enacting her plan to get kids out. Not only does it work without a hitch (with Rita making it to safety as well), June shows that she's not lost the ActionGirl chops she had when she took down High Commander Winslow by managing to get a Guardian at gunpoint and ultimately killing him once she gets what she needs out of him. And she does all this with a bullet in her back.
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* Luke and Moira get to see the Waterfords brought low as they deliver Nicole for an agreed hour-long visit. Moira gives Serena a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about how no amount of good deeds will erase the bad things she did and she's the real "gender traitor" (and she then suffers the indignity of being reminded her deal with Tuello includes not being allowed to call herself Nicole's mother), while Luke just punches Fred in the face and shouts that they're not done as the guards drag him out.
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** This same episode features a fantastic gambit by Tuello and Serena to lure Fred into Canada and charge the son of a bitch with ''every'' single crime he's done under international law. The kicker is that a soldier holds Fred at gunpoint; from the look on his face, he feels as helpless as the women he's tortured, and it's cathartic as hell.
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* June is spotted by Commander Winslow at Jezebel's while arranging for the children's transport, and he decides to take a turn with her himself. June retreats back to her usual MadnessMantra of being outside her body and treating it like nothing more than a job...but then suddenly decides she's had enough of this shit and fights back hard against one of the highest ranking members of the Gilead government. And finally she manages an exceptionally fitting end to the man when she stabs him over and over with the pen that created so many horrible laws against women, eventually getting his lung and leaving him to pathetically crawl toward her and beg to live for his children's sake. But of course this is the exact wrong thing to say to June, who finishes him off by bashing his brains in with a statue. And the kicker is that the Martha who finds the scene is one of the women she freed at the start of the season and helps her escape, after which the ''whole'' staff is happy to erase every piece of evidence and dispose of the body in the incinerator.
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* After Lawrence is finally forced to go through with the ceremony with June due to government supervision, June looks Fred in the eye and says "At least it wasn't you." He actually seems hit hard by it.
* June sends out a message for any Marthas willing to assist in evacuating Gilead's children. The typical signal for agreement is a basket of muffins...and she ends up with the whole table covered with them as apparently ''every'' Martha in town is on board.
* June sends out a message for any Marthas willing to assist in evacuating Gilead's children. The typical signal for agreement is a basket of muffins...and she ends up with the whole table covered with them as apparently ''every'' Martha in town is on board.
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* The Season 2 premiere has this little, glorious CallBack: [[spoiler:Serena Joy comes in to see June when she's getting a gynaecological exam, and angrily tells her not to screw around again. June, knowing she's nigh untouchable by Gilead and by her respective Wife, just snarls, "Don't get upset, Serena. It's bad for the baby," in a magnificent IronicEcho to what Serena Joy had frostily told June during her powerless FreakOut at the end of Season 1.]]
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* The Season 2 premiere has this little, glorious CallBack: [[spoiler:Serena Joy comes in to see June when she's getting a gynaecological gynecological exam, and angrily tells her not to screw around again. June, knowing she's nigh untouchable by Gilead and by her respective Wife, just snarls, "Don't get upset, Serena. It's bad for the baby," in a magnificent IronicEcho to what Serena Joy had frostily told June during her powerless FreakOut at the end of Season 1.]]
* The only good feeling one can get from watching ''Other Women'' is after seeing the Commander's Wives fetishize being pregnant and act like they are giving birth rather than their handmaids (who are there), is seeing Aunt Lydia scold Serena for smoking because "it's bad for the baby". [[KickTheSonOfTheBitch Ohhh Burn]].
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'''Luke:''' Luke Bakole.Bankole. ''You raped my wife''.
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* The other Handmaids ''all'' teaming up to give Ofmatthew hell for getting Hannah taken away, showing just how respected June has become in their community that without question they'll turn on anyone who hurts her.
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* The other Handmaids ''all'' teaming up to give Ofmatthew hell for getting Hannah taken away, showing just how respected June has become in their community that without question they'll turn on anyone who hurts her. (Although it's clear they had disliked Ofmatthew before).
* A small one in Ofmatthew's final rampage: the person she finally decides to shoot is not June. It's ''Aunt Lydia''. Underneath all of that brainwashing the woman knew who her real oppessors were and hated them.
* A small one in Ofmatthew's final rampage: the person she finally decides to shoot is not June. It's ''Aunt Lydia''. Underneath all of that brainwashing the woman knew who her real oppessors were and hated them.
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* The other Handmaids ''all'' teaming up to give Ofmatthew hell for getting Hannah taken away, showing just how respected she's June has become in the their community that without question they'll turn on anyone who hurts her.
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* When Aunt Lydia starts viscously beating Janine for asking to become the Putnams’ Handmaid’s again, June throws herself in the way, very much aware that even if Lydia refrains from hitting her too, such a public act of defiance may well mean her execution. Luckily, even the upper echelon of Gilead see it as a MoralEventHorizon, and Lydia is left to pathetically apologize for the scene and run away weeping.
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* Luke's [[ArmourPiercingQuestion Armour Piercing]] ShutUpHannibal response to Serena's insistence every child deserves to know their story. Her husband raped June, whether he knows about her actively participating in the rape by holding June down during it or not, he knows she, at least, knew it was happening, and she and Fred are both guilty of supporting the society that keeps June and other women prisoners. No matter how much she 'loves' the child conceived during June's time as a sex slave (June and Nick's consensual sexual relationship doesn't change the fact June was forced to get pregnant under threat of horrible things), she will never be anything but a monster in any truthful story Holly Nicole hears involving her.
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* After June's attempt to smuggle a Chemist to the Resistance blows up in her face, Lawrence seems to go out of his way to verbally berate her intelligence and ability to effectively run a resistance cell, much less her understanding of how he [Lawrence] doesn't have the power to "save them all" as June claims he can. He allows June to save five people out of hundreds. June puts together a crew worthy of a true Resistance movement.
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-->'''June:''' Lord Jesus, be revealed from Heaven, with His mighty angels. In flaming fire, thou shalt take vengeance. Burn, motherfucker, burn.
-->'''June:''' Lord Jesus, be revealed from Heaven, with His mighty angels. In flaming fire, thou shalt take vengeance. Burn, motherfucker, burn.
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* Serena Joy gathers the Wives and makes a passionate plea to the Commanders to allow women to read the bible. At the end of her speech, she bravely opens Eden's bible and reads a passage about the importance of the word. It demonstrates genuine faith, incredible bravery and her remorse at what happened to Eden. Her actions have dire consequences for herself, but it was still one of the greatest things she did on the show.
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** The fact that the Series win made Hulu the '''first ever''' streaming platform to win either Drama Series or Comedy Series in Emmy history, when, until then, it appeared that the honor might go to either Netflix (which had ''Series/HouseOfCards'', ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'', ''Series/StrangerThings'', ''[[Series/TheCrown2016 The Crown]]'', ''Series/MasterOfNone'', and ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'' in contention over the years) or Amazon (which had ''Series/{{Transparent}}'').
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** The fact that the Series win made Hulu the '''first ever''' streaming platform to win either Drama Series or Comedy Series in Emmy history, when, until then, it appeared that the honor might go to either Netflix (which had ''Series/HouseOfCards'', ''Series/HouseOfCardsUS'', ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'', ''Series/StrangerThings'', ''[[Series/TheCrown2016 The Crown]]'', ''Series/MasterOfNone'', and ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'' in contention over the years) or Amazon (which had ''Series/{{Transparent}}'').
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* The fact that Yvonne Strahovski, Ann Dowd, ''and'' Alexis Bledel got nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 2018 Emmys.
* The fact that Yvonne Strahovski, Ann Dowd, ''and'' Alexis Bledel got nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 2018 Emmys.
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* [[spoiler:Before June escapes she takes the time to carve "nolites te bastardes carborundorum" on the wall of her bedroom in big letters for Fred to find when he goes looking for her and the baby.]]
