The Handmaid’s Tale 6x09 Review: The 'Execution' Brings A SHOCKING Death of Two MAJOR Character.
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Death is the penalty for sin? That's correct, Wharton. In "Execution," Joseph Lawrence—an economist, devoted father, freedom fighter, and part-time James Bond—made the commanders' sins pay off with a glittering fireworks of death.
Nick remarked, "I guess you chose to join the winners," just before they were all blasted into bite-sized pieces of barbecue. Talk about hiding the conceit of the terrible. To ensure that his epitaph would read more than: Designed Gilead, Good at Sarcasm, Lawrence and his Mayday bomb dropped the entire plane about 30,000 feet lower than intended amid calls for cigars.
The most memorable aspect of this penultimate episode was Lawrence's heartfelt sacrifice. The scaffold scene was far more cliched than its theatrical tone implied, as no one could have predicted that the noose would actually tighten around June's neck this close to the end. Even before Mayday arrived, Ann Dowd's Aunt Lydia had a job lined up in the follow-up series The Testaments, which essentially took the rope off her neck as well. Janine, Moira... They were all destined to escape it in some way, a sentiment that has plagued this series for several seasons.