Breaking the chains

Can June escape her captors in the most powerful episode yet of The Handmaid’s Tale?

- JUDY EWENS, RICHARD MCCLURE

DRAMA

The Handmaid’s Tale

Sunday, C4 HD, 9pm

As rebel handmaid June, Elisabeth Moss has been at the heart of every episode of C4’s dark dystopian drama The Handmaid’s Tale since it began in 2017. And this week the actress adds to her workload by making her directorial debut.

It’s a particularly gruelling episode with June’s fate once more in the hands of Gilead’s brutal totalitarian regime and her nemesis Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd).