Far more impactful is June’s conversation with Janine. Serena’s vitriol has again given way to sympathy, and she lets June get away with it. She tries to kill Serena, in a scene weirdly lacking in tension considering how long this confrontation has been building up, and it’s over almost before it starts. The episode is essentially a series of encounters between June and whoever she can get her hands on, all designed to bring her through her dark months of the soul. Ofmatthew’s stark white hospital room offers nothing for June’s mind to cling on to, and the episode is a blank canvas for the splashes of colour that come in and out of June’s orbit in vignettes: clusters of red handmaids and blue wives, parades of soft pink daughters, intrusions of green and black from Aunt Lydia and the doctors. This episode is as tractionless as her mind, scenes slipping around each other, time bleeding all over the place. We’ve seen her lose the will to live before, but we’ve never seen her lose her sanity. But once more, she proves mysteriously immune to the punishments of Gilead, a thick layer of plot armour protecting her from the horrors the likes of Ofmatthew, Janine and Emily have suffered for similar, or lesser, ‘crimes’ against Gilead. Well, as it turns out, she did snap, and it very nearly landed her on The Wall. Last week we speculated that perhaps June was bending herself to prove she couldn’t snap. Please do not add spoilers for later episodes in the series. Spoiler alert: this recap is for people watching The Handmaid’s Tale, series three, on Channel 4 in the UK.
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