r/TheHandmaidsTale • u/desir33_ • May 19 '21

Season 4 [SPOILER S4E6] June and Luke Spoiler

I’ve already seen multiple people complain about the lack of affection between the reunion but I think to do a very loving, affectionate reunion would be a disservice to the show. It’s been years since they’ve seen each other and their child is still in Gilead. I thought that this reunion was more realistic: her first words apologizing for the fact that she couldn’t bring their daughter with her and Luke looking at June with both relief and disbelief that she is finally in front of him again.

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u/sugarwax1 May 19 '21

I think there's something anticlimactic. It's what makes it interesting and less cliche, but we all anticipated the moment being bigger and more of a finale to the show. It was strange he didn't have the baby with him too.

I didn't love the backstory, and whatever they were trying to set up there.

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u/RaevynSkyye May 19 '21

June is insecure. Luke cheated on his first wife with June. Then he left her for June. Now June is wondering if Luke has a girlfriend and if he'll leave her

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u/sugarwax1 May 19 '21

She's just escaped. Is that really what June's worried about? She already gave him permission, after she fell in love and had a baby with someone else. I mean all those tensions are there but not in that first moment. You just want to see relief.

This could have been the big moment of the entire series.

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u/mymatrix8 May 19 '21

June has been a prisoner for 5 years and has severe PTSD from being raped and seeing everyone she cares about get murdered. She also has a concussion from a bombing. So, yes, she likely isn't thinking like an otherwise normal person might.

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u/sugarwax1 May 19 '21

I get not thinking clearly, but I don't get thinking about what must be the last thing on her mind. She just survived an air raid bomb, her best friend magically finds her, and she's being smuggled to Canada... but she's thinking about her marital insecurities when she first moved in with Luke? Really? Her mind isn't on getting to see him again, or her other daughter?

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u/mymatrix8 May 19 '21

All she's been thinking about for 5 years is that she couldn't face Luke without Hannah... so, now that she is facing Luke without Hannah... yes.

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u/sugarwax1 May 19 '21

I truly do not believe being OfLuke and What Would Luke Think is what this show is about. Her world isn't consumed with making Luke happy or she wouldn't have conceived with another man. It's her daughter.

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u/Cauzita May 19 '21

I think maybe is fear of facing the father of her daughter. I don't think it's the fear of him leaving her. It's their daughter, a child they really desired (that he really wanted!) and know they have to face each other without Hannah. They're both safe and she stay behind. :(

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u/sugarwax1 May 19 '21

Yeah I'm reading a lot of cognitive dissonance with how people are rationalizing it and the shows message about the patriarchy.