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[quote=Anonymous]I loved this episode and the interaction between Serena and June. I also found both Serena's and June's actions believable.

Serena has had moments of humanity before and has never been unalloyed evil. That's what has made her so compelling all this time. Plus she's full of hormones right now. Those immediate days after giving birth are powerful, and it would make sense for her to be feeling connected to a larger sense of motherhood and mothers. She could revert back to form, but it doesn't mean this is false or manipulative.

I especially loved this episode for June. The last couple of episodes have shown her regaining a bit of her humanity in her relationship with Luke and Nicole, so this was part of trajectory already established.

It also shows reinforces the viewers' understanding of the loss June suffered in losing Hannah, because it shows the profound pull that being a mother has on one's whole connection to the world. June can be strong, even vicious and vengeful and damaged by her experiences in Gilead, but her experience of motherhood is more powerful. In fact, June has been portrayed as a very flawed person, but that doesn't negate her understanding of the bond between mother and child.

That's kind of the point of the show. There is no required link between virtue and motherhood. Gilead thought that handmaids' sins made them unqualified to be mothers and their bonds with their children were meaningless. June demonstrates otherwise.[/quote]

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