Bruce Miller discusses June’s journey, Emily’s return, and what’s next after Gilead
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The Final Chapter: June’s Journey Home
The Hulu hit wrapped its six seasons with June back where everything started – standing in the ruins of the Waterford house, finally telling her story.
Boston’s back to being America, not Gilead. One city down, more to go!
June bumps into Emily at an ice cream shop (talk about unexpected!). Turns out Emily’s been playing Martha with rebels in Bridgeport since she vanished in season 4.
Seeing them together again just hits different – like maybe happy endings aren’t total fantasy after all.
The feels keep coming when Aunt Lydia reunites Janine with her daughter Charlotte, and June’s mom Holly shows up with baby Nichole.
June and Luke go separate ways but promise to keep fighting for Hannah. His “Meet you there?” gets that classic June grin and a “F— yeah” that says it all.
Bruce Miller wanted the finale to feel different: “I was trying to write something that was an interesting episode of television… I had a conversation about this ending with Elisabeth Moss before we even signed her up for the show.”
June becoming a writer just makes sense, as Miller points out: “She was a book editor! Someone should have thought of it a long time ago.”
They even worked in footage from their very first shoot – that aquarium scene with June, Hannah, and Luke.
Bringing Emily back was a no-brainer: “She was such a part of June’s beginning in Gilead.
I loved the impossibility of it… that teaches June that it doesn’t matter what happens in Boston, you just keep fighting to get to Hannah.”
The finale mixes grief with hope. “By the end, you want people to be counting up some of the victories as well,” Miller says.
That karaoke scene? Pure emotional gold – a glimpse of what could have been without Gilead.
Miller was there for almost the whole shoot: “One of the great pleasures of my life.”
The energy never dropped, with actors like D’Arcy Carden “bouncing off the wall” right up to the final take.
With The Testaments in the works, don’t be shocked if familiar faces pop up. Miller’s take?
“When I can weasel that character back into the show some way for something and someone is around and willing to do it, a thousand percent would love to have any of them.” of them.”