[This story contains spoilers from the three-episode season six premiere of The Handmaid’s Tale, “Train,” “Exile” and “Devotion.”]
The biggest question for The Handmaid’s Tale viewers heading into the sixth and final season was what was going to happen to June and Serena after they got on that train.
The three-episode premiere of the Emmy-winning dystopian Hulu saga quickly answered that question by setting its starring women on diverging paths once again for the final chapter in this Gilead story. Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) ends up jumping from the train, with her baby son in her arms, to escape a mob of Gilead refugee women looking for revenge…