Season 6 finally gives her a storyline with real stakes and personal agency.
The moment, however, highlights just how far June is willing to go to ease her own conscience.
What follows is a long-overdue reckoning between two best friends and survivors who have taken very different paths.
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Theres just so many flashbacks, so many memories, you know.
Moira wonders aloud ifsheis allowed to have all those things, never feeling like she has the space to.
Its a heartbreaking exchange, raw and necessary, andboth Samira Wiley and Elisabeth Moss are incredibly powerful.
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Beneath the anger and exhaustion, their love for one another remains intact.
Its hard not to wonder who they might have been to each other if Gilead hadnt taken so much.
That peace, of course, is short-lived.
A Guardian enters, discovers the letters Janine gave them, and threatens them with violence.
Moira fights back, and with Junes help, they manage to overpower him.
In a fierce, brutal moment of self-defense, Moira kills him with a phone cord.
Season 6 gives her agency, emotional depth, anda central role in the resistance.
Samira Wiley delivers a performance thats layered, restrained, and deeply affecting.
All new episodes ofThe Handmaid’s TaleSeason 6 drop Tuesdays to stream on Hulu.
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