Simply because The Handmaid’s Story is in the course of a rebel doesn’t imply there’s no time for Serena to seek out herself a brand new man.
Forward of the collection finale, viewers had been celebrating among the highlights from the Tuesday, Might 20, episode the place Commander Wharton (Josh Charles), Nick (Max Minghella) and Commander Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) had been among the largest casualties of the resistance breaking out in Gilead.
Wharton’s loss of life left his new spouse, Serena (Yvonne Strahovski), a widow. Fortunately, followers identified that there was another choice for Serena (whose marriage was rocky though it solely lasted a couple of hours) after she shared a fast — however attention-grabbing — second with Mark (Sam Jaeger).
“Absolutely the scream I let loose. FINALLY. The sexual stress instantly,” learn an X publish alongside display screen grabs from the scene the place Mark stormed Serena’s residence earlier than taking her to security. “About time Mark & Serena have a scene collectively.”
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One other social media consumer referred to Mark as Serena’s “guardian angel” regardless of them not interacting usually. There have been a number of viewers sure that Serena and Mark would discover time to speak extra earlier than the collection got here to an finish.
“Can we speak concerning the chemistry of those two, now, at very finish?” a fan wrote through X. “Serena, you’ll be able to have a very good man for as soon as in your life, select correctly.”
The romance hypothesis comes days — in Gilead time — after Serena married Wharton. Regardless of a candy courtship, their relationship hit a serious impediment when Wharton launched Serena to their new handmaid on their marriage ceremony evening.
“Commander Wharton, I really feel like he has been very constant all alongside. He hasn’t been pulling the wool over Serena’s eyes. He’s been very honest about how he feels,” coshowrunner Yahlin Chang solely advised Us Weekly concerning the tense conclusion to Serena’s marriage ceremony evening. “So he’s extremely confused by Serena’s response.”
Chang argued that Wharton’s intentions shouldn’t have come as a shock.
“Josh Charles was a dream to work with and was so considerate and good concerning the character. However the factor about Wharton is, I really feel like from the very starting, he’s proven who he’s,” she famous. “He was very honest along with his emotions for Serena and his need to have an enormous household.”
Chang continued: “Due to his love and lust for Serena, he was actually attempting to open his thoughts and be accommodating. He’s a really conservative man, however he did say, ‘I need you to maintain writing. I need you to do all these items.’”
In response to Chang, miscommunication led to fast points between Serena and Wharton after a whirlwind romance.
“He’s mature sufficient to know that’s the girl that he’s fallen in love with. Serena is a pressure to be reckoned with — and that’s a part of why he was in love along with her. In his thoughts, having an enormous household — particularly while you’re marrying a lady of a sure age with a organic clock ticking within the midst of a fertility disaster — which means having a handmaid,” she added. “To him, he doesn’t perceive. He simply doesn’t perceive her response towards it as a result of it’s simply so baked into the system. So if anybody was actually blind to what all of it actually meant, it was Serena.”
Whereas chatting with Us, coshowrunner Eric Tuchman teased what followers can anticipate concerning the present’s ending.
“I believe we are able to anticipate an sincere conclusion to the story. We maintain utilizing the phrase sincere as a result of we strive our greatest to be sensible,” he famous. “What would occur in actual life — and what we hope folks take away — is this sense of hopefulness and resilience that June and most of the different characters have demonstrated and can exhibit within the final couple of episodes.”
Tuchman continued: “If you’re up towards an oppressive regime and when your rights are stripped away, you simply by no means cease preventing. You retain going. Hopefully folks will draw some optimism and really feel empowered by what performs out.”
New episodes of The Handmaid’s Story are launched Tuesdays on Hulu.