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I mean, our families know each other! So it was also sad for me to be reading it, just as a friend of Joe’s, to know that he’s going. I’m slightly biased because I’ve spent so much time with Joe, and he is the nicest guy ever. It was, but honestly, my jaw was on the floor when I read it.
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Is that how you felt when you heard this was going to happen? I'm getting the sense that everybody involved in the show is just thrilled to see Fred go, including Joseph. To Serena, June is capable of anything, including ripping Serena or her baby to shreds.”īelow, Strahovski digs into the impact of Fred’s death, what Serena’s next calculated move could be, and the complex relationship and uncomfortable parallels between June and Serena. And if she goes out into the real world and gets released, especially if she gets to keep her baby, that’s the part that will constantly have her living in fear. “The knowledge that June was the one who ripped apart, that’s the scary part for Serena,” Strahovski tells. But staying in Canada is also perilous, with June now on the vengeful warpath and Serena’s baby due any day.
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She can’t go back to Gilead after Fred betrayed the regime, and, as she noted in a recent episode, without the privilege conferred by being a Commander's wife, she could become a Handmaid. With Fred out of the picture, Serena’s future looks more uncertain than ever. After hanging him on “the Wall,” she mails Serena his wedding ring-and one of his fingers. As Fred begs for mercy, June leads a pack of ex-Handmaids in a Salvaging against the disgraced Commander. But he learns a lethal lesson in the closing moments of the season, as ally after ally (Mark Tuello, Commander Lawrence, and even Nick) betray him to June (Elisabeth Moss). It’s been obvious for a while now that Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) wasn’t long for the world unlike his wife Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski), he didn’t have much of a strategic brain, instead seeming to think he could walk into a comfortable post-Gilead life in Canada despite his war crimes. In a jaw-dropping season 4 finale, one of The Handmaid’s Tale ’s most prominent villains gets his long-overdue comeuppance. Spoilers for season 4 episode 10 of The Handmaid’s Tale, “The Wilderness,” below.