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The Handmaid’s Tale recap: season three, episode eight – June has cracked

Everyone is on their wildest behaviour this week, as June’s bullying leads to disaster – and Aunt Lydia does a mean Dolly Parton impersonation

Spoiler alert: this recap is for people watching The Handmaid’s Tale, series three, on Channel 4 in the UK. Please do not add spoilers for later episodes in the series.

Last week was a low point for June’s morals, but here she found new depths, driving a pregnant woman to suicide-by-cop. None of June’s spiteful actions will bring Gilead down, or even hurt its founders, but that’s not her goal right now. She’s hellbent on getting revenge on Ofmatthew, the informer she blames for the death of Hannah’s beloved Martha Frances.

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