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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: Ann Dowd Explains ‘Traitor’ Aunt Lydia & Teases Final Episodes

  • In Episode 8 of The Handmaid's Tale final season, Aunt Lydia reaches a breaking point during Serena Joy and Gabriel Wharton's wedding in Boston.
  • This moment depicts June, Moira, and the Boston Handmaids executing a plan to incapacitate Gilead's commanders by slipping a sedative into the cake served at the wedding.
  • Aunt Lydia returns early from travels, discovers the conspiracy with help from Aunt Phoebe, and confronts the girls before June persuades her to release them.
  • During her crisis, Lydia falls to her knees begging God for forgiveness, acknowledging that “rape is rape” and recognizing the Handmaid system's abuses.
  • This pivotal moment signifies Lydia's transformation and lays the groundwork for The Testaments spinoff, which Ann Dowd stars in and is set approximately 4 to 5 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale.
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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: Ann Dowd Explains ‘Traitor’ Aunt Lydia & Teases Final Episodes

Dowd explains the show's most pivotal Aunt Lydia scene, why she'll 'never be the same,' and how this affects 'The Testaments.'

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