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The Independent
19 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Where to watch The Handmaid's Tale season 6 in the UK
The final season of The Handmaid's Tale is slowly creeping toward its end. Episode 6, Janine, just dropped on Channel 4 and Prime Video, and it's a brutal one. Elizabeth Moss 's June and Moira go undercover at Jezebel's, a mission that quickly spirals into violence. The fallout? We're about to find out. If you're watching in the UK, we're still a few episodes behind the US, where the finale has already aired on Hulu (a subscription service only available in the US – or with the use of a VPN). But with episode 7 airing later this week, we're edging closer to the end – and to the adaptation of Margaret Atwood 's The Testaments, the Booker-prize -winning sequel. Episode 7 is set to air on Channel 4 and Amazon Prime Video at 11pm on Sunday 15 June, a day later than usual. Whether you're waiting for the next episode, or just looking to catch up on every episode so far, here's where you can watch The Handmaid's Tale in the UK. Where to watch 'The Handmaid's Tale' in the UK Episode 6 started streaming on Amazon Prime Video and Channel 4 on Sunday, 8 June. The show used to air on Saturdays, but since episode 4, it's now got a regular Sunday 10pm slot. Episode 7 will also began streaming on Sunday, 15 June, at 11pm, airing first on Channel 4 before landing on Prime Video shortly after. If you want to watch The Handmaid's Tale without ads, you'll need an Amazon Prime subscription. A regular membership costs £9.99 per month. But if you haven't been an Amazon Prime member in the last 12 months, you can also sign up for a 30-day free trial, which gives you all the perks of a Prime membership, including free next-day delivery. On top of that, Amazon Prime Video has seasons one to five in its back catalogue if you want to catch up before the season premiere. If you're not a Prime subscriber but still want to watch the show without adverts, you can sign up for Channel 4+. It costs £3.99 per month or £39.99 annually. Like Amazon Prime, Channel 4+ also offers all of the previous seasons of the show. How to watch 'The Handmaid's Tale' in the US Viewers in the US have been able to watch The Handmaid's Tale for months, and it's already finished airing on US streaming service Hulu, which is not available in the UK and can only be accessed with the help of a trusted VPN. The show's 10-episode run ended at the end of May. A subscription to Hulu costs $9.99 per month or $99.99 per year, while a Hulu subscription without the ads costs $18.99 per month. What is The Handmaid's Tale season 6 about? Without giving away any spoilers, Hulu's official synopsis for the sixth and final season of The Handmaid's Tale states that June's 'unyielding spirit and determination pull her back into the fight to take down Gilead. Luke and Moira join the resistance. Serena tries to reform Gilead while Commander Lawrence and Aunt Lydia reckon with what they have wrought, and Nick faces challenging tests of character. This final chapter of June's journey highlights the importance of hope, courage, solidarity, and resilience in the pursuit of justice and freedom.' Season six's showrunner Yahlin Chang also revealed in an interview with TV Insider that the upcoming adaptation of The Testaments will also be teased in the sixth season. 'There will be cliffhangers for The Testaments,' she said. 'Any fans that are left wanting more are going to get more in The Testaments, which will be great for them. But [ The Handmaid's Tale ] does conclude – in some very satisfying ways – many of the storylines, but not every single one.'
The Independent
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Independent
The Handmaid's Tale season 6 has wrapped in the US, but here's where to watch episode 6 in the UK
The final season of The Handmaid's Tale is slowly creeping toward its end. Episode 6, Janine, just dropped on Channel 4 and Prime Video, and it's a brutal one. Elizabeth Moss 's June and Moira go undercover at Jezebel's, a mission that quickly spirals into violence. The fallout? We're about to find out. If you're watching in the UK, we're still a few episodes behind the US, where the finale has already aired on Hulu (a subscription service only available in the US – or with the use of a VPN). But with episode six airing later this week, we're edging closer to the end – and to the adaptation of Margaret Atwood 's The Testaments, the Booker-prize -winning sequel. Episode 6 is set to air on Channel 4 and Amazon Prime Video at 10pm on Sunday 8 June, a day later than usual. Whether you're waiting for the next episode, or just looking to catch up on every episode so far, here's where you can watch The Handmaid's Tale in the UK. Where to watch 'The Handmaid's Tale' in the UK Episode 5 started streaming on Amazon Prime Video and Channel 4 on Sunday, 1 June. The show used to air on Saturdays, but since episode 4, it's now got a regular Sunday 10pm slot. Episode 6 will also begin streaming on Sunday, 8 June, at the same time, airing first on Channel 4 before landing on Prime Video shortly after. If you want to watch The Handmaid's Tale without ads, you'll need an Amazon Prime subscription. A regular membership costs £9.99 per month. But if you haven't been an Amazon Prime member in the last 12 months, you can also sign up for a 30-day free trial, which gives you all the perks of a Prime membership, including free next-day delivery. On top of that, Amazon Prime Video has seasons one to five in its back catalogue if you want to catch up before the season premiere. If you're not a Prime subscriber but still want to watch the show without adverts, you can sign up for Channel 4+. It costs £3.99 per month or £39.99 annually. Like Amazon Prime, Channel 4+ also offers all of the previous seasons of the show. How to watch 'The Handmaid's Tale' in the US Viewers in the US have been able to watch The Handmaid's Tale for months, and it's already finished airing on US streaming service Hulu, which is not available in the UK and can only be accessed with the help of a trusted VPN. The show's 10-episode run ended at the end of May. A subscription to Hulu costs $9.99 per month or $99.99 per year, while a Hulu subscription without the ads costs $18.99 per month. What is The Handmaid's Tale season 6 about? Without giving away any spoilers, Hulu's official synopsis for the sixth and final season of The Handmaid's Tale states that June's 'unyielding spirit and determination pull her back into the fight to take down Gilead. Luke and Moira join the resistance. Serena tries to reform Gilead while Commander Lawrence and Aunt Lydia reckon with what they have wrought, and Nick faces challenging tests of character. This final chapter of June's journey highlights the importance of hope, courage, solidarity, and resilience in the pursuit of justice and freedom.' Season six's showrunner Yahlin Chang also revealed in an interview with TV Insider that the upcoming adaptation of The Testaments will also be teased in the sixth season. 'There will be cliffhangers for The Testaments,' she said. 'Any fans that are left wanting more are going to get more in The Testaments, which will be great for them. But [ The Handmaid's Tale ] does conclude – in some very satisfying ways – many of the storylines, but not every single one.'
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘The Handmaid's Tale' Stars Elisabeth Moss and Max Minghella on That Shattering Betrayal
[This story contains spoilers from season six, episode seven of , '.'] 'It was Nick who told me everything.' More from The Hollywood Reporter On Set for 'The Handmaid's Tale' Final Season With Hugs, Tears and Rebellion: "I Had a Full-Fledged Breakdown" How Josh Charles Found His Quiet Rage for 'The Handmaid's Tale' Samira Wiley on Finding Her Fire Again in Final Season of 'The Handmaid's Tale' The Handmaid Tale's June (Elisabeth Moss) first heard those words while hiding in a closet with Nick (Max Minghella), as High Commander Wharton (Josh Charles) informed fiancée Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski) that his son-in-law helped him thwart what could have been a debilitating attack on Gilead High Commanders at Jezebel's, orchestrated by June and the Mayday resistance group. The sixth episode in the final season of the Hulu series ended on that cliffhanger moment as viewers watched June internally digest what she just heard. This week's seventh hour, 'Shattered,' then picked up in that closet. The episode quickly zoomed over to Jezebel's to show viewers the devastating consequences of Nick's betrayal of June: All of the Jezebels (women who are forced to be sex slaves for High Commanders) are brutally shot and killed by Gilead officers. Janine (Madeline Brewer) is the only one who is spared, due to her relationship with High Commander Bell (Timothy Simons). The massacre of the Jezebel's women is a scene of shocking violence for the dystopian series, and the execution of so many women is a haunting vision June imagines when she's then told by Nick what happened. 'Have you ever had a moment where you hear something or learn something about someone and you can't unsee it? You can't go back,' asks Moss when speaking to The Hollywood Reporter about this point of no return between lovers June and Nick. 'Everything changes in that moment for June. She cannot ever see him in the same way again. I think he completely shatters her.' Handmaid's Tale viewers had a big reaction after last week's episode, 'Surprise,' when finding out that Nick had ratted out June's resistance plan. But Minghella wasn't bracing for impact heading into season six's release. 'I don't really mind what they think of Nick morally,' he tells THR. 'I just hope [viewers] enjoy the narratives. Whether they have different feelings about me afterwards is not something I have much control in.' That's not to say that Minghella doesn't care deeply for his character. 'He's nothing like me, we're quite different. He's much more stoic; I'm a sort of mess of a person (laughs). I don't talk anything like Nick; Nick speaks and moves in a very specific way,' he says. 'But I can relate to this character [throughout the series]. I feel there is some temper between us. I understand him.' In the episode, Nick quickly clocks June's stunned reaction, and he confronts her about what she's chosen to ignore about him all along. He accuses her of turning a blind eye on his elite role in the fascist Gilead regime when it benefits her to do so. When she realizes that Nick is just like the evil men who run Gilead, he responds: 'And you love me. So what does that make you?' June then walks away from Nick. It's a moment that Nick acknowledges may be for good in a later conversation with Rita, where he leans into June thinking he's a self-serving monster. 'She's completely brokenhearted,' Moss tells THR. 'She's also so mad at herself that she ignored all the signs — that she should have seen it, that she should have known, that she should have not fallen for it or believed in him. All of that is going through her head in the same moment. And then thinking about those women and not being able to ever get that image out of her head, and not knowing about Janine and whether or not [she's alive]. Her mind is going a mile a minute.' June has been free from Gilead since escaping in season four. She's now a refugee and rebellion fighter who has reunited with husband Luke (O-T Fagbenle), friend Moira (Samira Wiley), former Martha Rita (Amanda Brugel) and the Mayday resistance fighters trying to take Gilead down, as she and Luke continue to fight to get her oldest daughter, Hannah (Jordana Blake), back. When June returns and tells Luke that Nick knew about the plan because of her, Luke finally expresses his true feelings about June and Nick's Gilead affair, which led to the birth of June's youngest daughter, Holly. 'Don't be in love with a fucking Nazi, how 'bout that!' Luke tells his wife. Fagbenle has been carrying around his own feelings about the love triangle at the heart of The Handmaid's Tale for some time. The actor accepts there is a trauma love bond between June and Nick, but as far as he's concerned, 'It's pathological on many levels,' he says. 'It's so blindingly obvious that Nick is part of a fascistic regime and this entire time, the only time he's acted against that was for his own selfish interest because he was in love with a woman. That doesn't erase the fact that you can't get promoted up the ranks of Gilead unless you're doing some really dark things. You don't get promoted up the ranks because you're baking nice pastries!' It's something that June, as well as viewers, have been guilty of overlooking, thanks to Minghella's performance and the chemistry between the pair as June and Nick's love story has unfolded over six seasons. 'Just look at her performance in that scene,' Fagbenle tells THR of Moss. 'It's brilliant, the look on her face. I'm always blown away by her.' After this, things can't be the same for June when it comes to Nick, says Fagbenle, who thinks it's about time. 'This entire journey for Luke, and myself as a person, I've been so surprised that more people don't see that,' says Fagbenle of Nick's role as a Commander. 'It's an interesting quirk of humanity that we're willing to whitewash a bunch of things around a person because we love them and we think they're hot or we think they're the person we want to fall in love with. I think it's really interesting on both the political level and a psychological level.' Co-showrunners Eric Tuchman and Yahlin Chang have also compared June's relationship with the two men in her life. 'With Nick it's more lusty and passionate, and with Luke it's the love of a super strong attachment to a husband who has stood by you,' Chang tells THR. Commander Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) channels some of these confronting feelings in the episode, when he accuses June of being blind to trust Nick because of his 'smoldering' gaze. 'There are certain things about Nick that June is blind to and that our viewers — and we as writers — are blind to because we're invested in this romance. And that is that Nick is a Commander in Gilead, that's the truth of it,' says Chang. 'Because for Nick to have risen up to be part of the Gilead power regime — to be an Eye from the beginning and then all the way through to becoming a Commander — he has done some bad things, and we haven't shown them and so it was convenient to forget. But one of the themes in our story the season is that there is no such thing as a good Gilead Commander. If you're a man and you're powerful in Gilead, it means you are touched by some of that Gilead corruption. You just are.' When June returns to Mayday headquarters, it's Moira who comforts her and who understands why June fell in love with Nick — a romance, as Fagbenle has previously pointed out — that was borne out of and bonded by trauma. Perhaps that's why Luke stops short of leaving June and their marriage. If anything, the Nick betrayal and June's revelation afterwards bring the husband and wife closer, as they vow to never lose sight of what they are fighting for: their daughter Hannah, who is now a wife-in-training and still living under Gilead tyranny. The episode later reveals that Janine is now a handmaid for High Commander Bell, who has been sexually abusing her ever since she arrived at Jezebel's, and that even Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) can't get to Janine. 'Nick is not the person June fell in love with, and as much as she can mourn the loss of the person she fell in love with, it won't trump the loss of the women at Jezebel's,' says Moss of June's turning point. 'But there is pain there, too. I'm not going to say that there isn't complexity there.' Instead of pulling away in misery, however, the events push June to plan an even bigger Mayday coup. She plots their biggest resistance ploy yet — with the help of Lawrence, their Canadian ally Mark Tuello (Sam Jaeger) and Mayday — to enlist every handmaid and ally to use the upcoming Gilead wedding between Serena Joy and High Commander Wharton as a cover to slyly attack every Gileadean person in attendance. 'Those Commanders and those Wives are going to be so busy eating and dancing and having the time of their fucking lives that they will never see us coming,' says June at the end of the hour, ushering in what is sure to be a blessed evening for episode eight. *** The Handmaid's Tale releases new episodes Tuesdays on Hulu. Follow along with THR's final season coverage. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise 'Yellowstone' and the Sprawling Dutton Family Tree, Explained
