The Handmaid’s Tale Showrunner on Bringing More Backstory to One of Its Most Complicated Characters

monitoring The story of maids For the first time, the unavoidable question rises: How did the repressive and cruel place become like Gilead? Over the course of six seasons, we learned the story of Gilead Origen through the flashback that was sprayed in the main narration – which seems to be a warning story for American viewers in 2025 – Hulu exhibition also held the voids for the main players. But in a recent episode, he gave us another new look at one person’s life “before”.

She has long been fascinated by Serena Joy Waterford, who was brilliantly played by iPhone Strovsky as a woman who had right -wing Gillid’s right -wing agenda from the beginning and married Fred Watford, who became the strong commander Watford once the United States underwent her forced transformation. Although Serena was one day a famous author and a political speaker, she put her careful career and became a useful wife – for some time.

like The story of maids It has advanced, we have learned that Serena is far from one suitability. She wanted to become a mother to be guided by some of her most extreme actions, but she proved in the end that she was not very solid so that she could not realize her failures as a human – and she began to feel deeply regretted towards her role in the heart of the world upside down.

In the second episode, “Exile”, the viewers got the first time’s meeting with the father of Serena. (Her mother, who lives in Gilead, left an unpleasant impression in the third season and has not been seen since then.) There are two types of memories of the past in the episode, which this day follows Serena’s decision to return to Gilead – specifically, the new Bethlehem region that was fixed, was that she believed that she would be able to reduce her bond and return to it.

Her relationship with her father, the priest, is part of the mystery of Serena, who wanted to explore it, according to The story of maids Creative Bruce Miller. He spoke to the cover, explained: “We learned about it, but this is really interesting, because it is not a relationship that you chose, as is the case with Farid … here, you are like, how the woman you are on? Attention when you realize the amount of steel it has.

The two viewers with the father of Serena are unfolding a few years separately; At the beginning, I met Farid and her father congratulated her on her book Tour. In the second, her father-who is older and more innocent-appears-because she tells him enthusiastically, “We are about to change the country!”

At that point, she believes that she meets her father’s definitions early to be a beacon of movement – but of course we know that her marriage to Farid will be filled with misery, and the “changes” that helped lead in terror and tragedy will help, not a “new garden from Aden” as she is made. Perhaps it was hoping that the new Bethlehem would be that instead? You can never predict what Serena will do, but she always has a great way to land on her feet.

You can watch new episodes of The story of maids Tuesday on Holo.

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