Although Elisabeth Moss's June is the protagonist of The Handmaid's Tale, you can't survive in such a world with all your moral fiber intact.
The end of season 2 saw her make the decision to send her daughter Nichole away while she stayed behind to rescue her other daughter Hannah. Viewers were frustrated by the decision, but it was a case of 'damned if you do, damned if you don't, according to Moss.
"You have to fight fire with fire," she told Entertainment Weekly. "That’s become [June’s] journey in season three. To fight against the people she has to fight, she has to become more like them."
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Showrunner Bruce Miller added that: "We’re not doing a montage of June being radicalised — it’s 13 episodes. To see someone go through this process of becoming ruthless was a real challenge. We didn’t want to sensationalise it, or make it too morally easy, either."
Critics have seen the first six episodes of the upcoming season, and the consensus is that it's a pretty slow affair. So if June really is going to fight fire with fire, then we've got to sit through a fair bit of stoking that fire first.
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