The most conflict leader in the tale of maids is one of his best characters

There are some sophisticated women The story of maidsBut men make up the largest part of his evil characters. This applies to individuals like Praise be to God Commander Fred Watford, but also “Gileid’s men” as a group, oppressive, violent, hated women. The show tends to deal with heavy topics, but also invested in creating complex characters. The most amazing examples are Gilead Insides who realize it too late that they are trapped in prisons.

Our It was pre -explored How does this make Serena Joy Waterford (iPhone Streovsky) one of The story of maidsThe most angry but interesting characters are still correct in the current sixth season of the exhibition. Over the years, we saw her family Canada for war crimes, then she was released, then we told us that there is no place for her in Gilead because her strict culture was not equipped to deal with a single widowed mother. thenAfter Gilead brought her out of view as her representative in Canada, she was forced to flee Toronto when she means Kurfar on her migration situation that she might lose her son’s custody.

Serena has made a lot of searching for oneself since we met her for the first time as the wife of a religious leader, all in support of ritual rape if that means that she could put her gloves on a child. As we learned in the memories of the past to her life “before”, it was one day a strong author and speaker who pushes the extreme right -wing Christian movement that brought Gilead to existence … Gilead, a place where women are not allowed to read or write, and anyone who dares to speak abroad is implemented.

Fortunately for Serena, her husband is not commanded to kill her when she goes out of the line; He just cuts a finger as punishment. But her conflicting feelings about Gilead have crystallized a little with the start of the sixth season. She now understands the damage it causes, both to people who have been damaged personally because of their actions, as well as those with guilt in helping to build a terrible system.

After realizing it is too late, it is very famous that it does not wander without anyone noticing it, Serena barely escaped from the angry mobs who suffer from tearing it on its bodies. She is really a woman without a country until Commander Joseph Lawrence (Bradley Witford) suddenly appears in her life, as it appears in “exile”, the second episode of the sixth season. It is appropriate for Serena and Lawrence to become allies on behalf of the new Bethlehem, its “reformist” copy of Gilead, because it is similar to it constantly wrestling with the uncomfortable guilty to have a hand in reviving the nightmare that is Gilead to life.

This week’s episode, “Promotion”, indicates that Lawrence’s rise from the leader to High The leader, the classification that helps in providing legitimacy to the new emerging Bethlehem. It is still part of Gilead, but in the new Bethlehem is treated with women with respect; They can read and write, and there are no maids. (Also, there are no general executions!) Serena does not have to see her elegant homes on the beach personally before she agrees to move there; The promise to be able to use her brain again is irresistible, as well as the feeling that the God who is going to once makes her mistake, it is now directing it on a way to modify it.

Lawrence may be the least religious man in Gilead – he does not ask him to read a prayer – but he can definitely recognize Serena’s pursuit of redemption. Join Lawrence The story of maids In the second season, after we have long been used to assuming that anyone wandering around him was a “leader” who was a monster hating women. But Lawrence, although he is known as “Gileid Engineer”, is not a monster. He is devoted to his wife throughout her long struggle with mental illness, and women are treated forced to serve in his home with charity – he has maids, because all leaders must, but he avoids a “rape party” and he seems to be the only leader he sees for what he really is.

It also proves that he is an ally of June (Elizabeth Moss) and the growing resistance movement; Although he is not a completely active participant, he often uses his position for the commander to hide the Gilead Giley’s soldiers in Gilead. It passes the information, provides shelter, facilitates secret transport, sometimes groaning on this topic, but it always saves the souls in this process. Outwardly, at least, it is part of the GileAd elite, keeping up with appearances and going through suggestions. But in particular after the death of his beloved wife, he struck to marry the loud widow of the executing commander (the crime of the dead man: rape of a servant was not for him Obeders), Lawrence moves at the maximum speed in the new Bethlehem.

Lawrence knows that he could not back down from the great damage he caused, but he believes he found a way to move forward with the new Bethlehem. The rest of the world has rejected the way of life for life – but it is still curious about the positive environmental changes that have been enact, especially all the successful pregnancies that occurred within its borders. New Bethlehem also provides a more acceptable return point for Canada and other countries that are heading to desperate refugees. They do not want to return people to a place known for the rampant human rights violations, but the new Bethlehem is different, right?

With the entire Serena Joy on the plane, it is confident that “the authority will come from the reform”, there is a flash of hope that the new Bethlehem can direct Gilead to a more progressive future. There is still a lot of the remaining sixth season to go, and it seems likely that “Gilead Men” The story of maids The viewers did not grow to easily despise the harsh Distopian paradise.

At least we have Lawrence – the gentle, depression, but very funny, although at times, smart, uninterrupted like hell – to remind us that every leader does not hate the core. It seems that the same show confirms this point this week, when it is instead of playing a song on the end of “dedication”, and instead, I used Lawrence’s voice Small princess To Angela, his daughter at the age of his child. Earlier in the episode, he presented the story by saying that it was “his favorite book for his first wife when she was a young girl”, and Angela – a child born in a society where women are not allowed to learn – promised that once she is old, she will be able to read her herself as well.

New episodes of The story of maids The sixth season arrives on Tuesday at 12 am Each time at Holo.