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The revolution is being televised, however not everybody will survive it. That definitely got here true within the penultimate installment of The Handmaid’s Story as two main characters won’t make subsequent week’s sequence finale.

The stunning improvement on the shut of the episode definitely wasn’t anticipated because it was the end result of two very totally different selections made by two very totally different folks … shifting in the wrong way.

It additionally got here on the heels of one other stunning second that kicked off the episode, as June (Elisabeth Moss) and her cohorts plot their rebellion to the music of Taylor Swift. However not any Taylor Swift you have heard earlier than — properly, not precisely.

The long-awaited Repute (Taylor’s Model) should be getting very shut certainly, because the songstress debuted her re-recorded replace of “Look What You Made Me Do” to assist set the tone for revolution. It was a badass soundtrack as all hell instantly begins to interrupt unfastened.

“I’ve been wanting to make use of a Taylor track for a few years on the present and we lastly discovered the proper spot for a observe from her, and I’m so glad we waited as a result of there couldn’t be a extra good track for a extra good second,” Moss informed Billboard of the immediately epic second.

“After I laid the track up towards the scene, it simply landed completely thematically, rhythmically and magically hit all of the edit factors which generally occurs if it’s meant to be,” added editor Wendy Hallam Martin.

Because the episode progressed, June set the stage for a pivotal second that might change the whole lot for the higher, if all of it works completely. However that is The Handmaid’s Story. When does something work completely?

June obtained phrase that just about all the remaining high leaders had been leaping on a flight to D.C. after the Mayday-handmaid rise up, so she enlisted assistance from Commander Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) to take them down a notch.

And actually!

He agreed to drop a bomb on the airplane and get out of there earlier than anybody was the wiser. Properly, as with all issues, an ideal plan solely works in principle. The commanders confirmed up early, leaving Lawrence — whom they’re already suspicious of — in a determined scenario.

In a robust second, we see him resign himself to doing the suitable factor, even figuring out what meaning. After a significant look towards June, who’s watching it go down, he chooses to board the airplane and prepares to fly off with the opposite Commanders.

After which, there’s Nick, who we have seen rise from driver to Commander in his personal proper. Like Lawrence, he is been confronted with a selection all through this present. The place do his loyalties and beliefs lie? He is in love with June, has fathered a toddler together with her, however Gilead has handled him properly, virtually like a selected son.

In the long run, after what gave the impression to be some flashes of uncertainty, he selected Gilead, and he, too, entered the airplane.

“It appeared like we wanted that character to lastly to make the selection; it was time to cease strolling the tightrope,” co-showrunner Eric Tuchman informed TheWrap.

“Nick was underneath large strain and when individuals are underneath strain, they don’t all the time assume rationally,” Minghella informed The Hollywood Reporter. He stated he thinks Nick made the flip after a pivotal scene along with his spouse Rose within the hospital.

“I checked out it as a morality play,” he stated. “The second you make a psychological determination like that, the world will karmically punish you for it, definitely within the context of this story.”

Tuchman stated in addition they knew upfront that this was how they needed Lawrence to exit. Whereas Nick has been a hesitant ally to June and the revolution, Lawrence has grow to be increasingly more overtly supportive, lengthy regretful of his function within the rise of Gilead.

Tuchman informed TheWrap they took the veteran actor out to lunch, undecided how he would react, and had been completely satisfied to seek out that “he embraced the thought. I feel he actually sparked to it. It felt like an trustworthy ending and a noble ending for this character.”

“It was principally my fantasy of his trajectory. As a result of, it will probably’t come too straightforward,” Whitford informed THR. “This isn’t a present that wants a male savior.” He blamed Lawrence’s “savior advanced” and for permitting him to purchase into the parable of New Bethlehem and being blind to “what’s a fairly apparent risk, that these guys had been gonna activate him.”

“Whenever you’re going to kill off characters, you need them to exit with a bang,” Tuchman informed THR. “You need to have it land in a giant approach. Actually, on this case, Max and Bradley — and (Excessive Commander Wharton) Josh Charles additionally explodes — all three of them have a really memorable finish.”

“I used to be very completely satisfied that Lawrence made the selection that he made,” stated Whitford. “I feel as he’s listening to Nick and sitting on the airplane [in the final scene] he’s considering, ‘This poor child is one other sufferer of this hellscape that I created.’”

The ultimate moments of the episode sees June trying up because the airplane erupts in flames, ending one a part of this chapter. As The Handmaid’s Story strikes towards its conclusion subsequent week, sequel sequence The Testaments is ready within the wings to choose up the items of no matter’s left.