The Handmaid’s Tale recap: season three, episode seven – the fight is on!

The Waterfords swan off on a romantic mini-break while June performs her most extreme and awful acts so far. Who will save her from such recklessness? Spoiler alert: this recap is for people watching The Handmaid’s Tale, series three , on Channel 4 in the UK. Please do not add spoilers for later episodes in the series. When the season three tagline was revealed, we didn’t think they meant ‘blessed be the fight’ in a literal sense – and yet here’s June, taking off her wings just as a woman in a pre-Gilead age might have taken out her earrings before throwing down. We’ve been waiting all season for her to take the fight to Gilead, but instead she finds herself taking her frustrations out on Ofmatthew, who, yes, is extremely punchable, yet whose piousness is probably the result of trauma and brainwashing. Continue reading...