Fair warning: This article contains spoilers for episode 11 of the second season of The Handmaid’s Tale (and drops some heavy-handed hints about what’s to come later, too).

Holly is the shortest episode of The Handmaid’s Tale so far, yet easily one of the most powerful. Focusing almost entirely on Elisabeth Moss’ performance as a frightened June, we see our titular Handmaid at her lowest.

Why? Nick (Max Minghella) has seemingly been arrested and whisked away to god knows where, which means that June has been left alone in snowy rural Massachusetts, 39 weeks pregnant, having just survived a savage rape and having her firstborn daughter ripped from her arms yet again.

Naturally, she’s desperate to grasp her last chance at freedom – and so, when the Waterfords enter the house looking for her, she quickly arms herself with a rifle. As she watches them from above, tracking them with her gun, we learn a number of important lessons. Firstly, that it was Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski) who organised the horrific rape seen in the Last Ceremony.

“You raped her yesterday!” she snaps at her husband (Joseph Fiennes), after he lambasts her for driving June away.

“That was your idea,” replies Fred sulkily.

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