But it hasn’t happened yet, and it was glorious to hear Oprah on the radio, smoothly leading into quintessential American troubadour Bruce Springsteen’s “Hungry Heart”: “Now a tune to remind everyone who’s listening, American patriot or Gilead traitor, that we are still here. So is Oprah a real person in the Gilead universe, now providing comfort via pirate radio, or was this just a fun cameo? The idea of a crossover in which real celebrities appear as themselves, fighting the good fight in exile, sails dangerously close to cheesy territory. In fact, that is the voice of Oprah Winfrey. June turns the key in the ignition, hears static and turns the dial slightly to hear the first surprise cameo: the announcer’s voice for “Radio Free America, broadcasting from somewhere in the great white north.” The voice sounds awfully… familiar. The car sticks out, and she would need to be inconspicuous. ![]() June does not check the tires, or the license plate - if that car still has lettered plates on it, she’ll most likely be stopped immediately, because all of the license plates in Gilead are numbers-only. Is the tank full? It’s unclear if it has a full gas tank or snow tires. How far could she get in that car on a snowy New England road in midwinter? It’s a vehicle for summer cruises, not winter distance traveling over snowy roads.įurthermore, we never get a clean view of the dashboard. This car is the sort of contraband that only a commander could get away with holding on to, given that Gilead is keen on reducing carbon emissions. It’s a sign of June’s desperation that she even considers using it to get away. The car, surprisingly, is a muscular vintage sports car, likely to be noticed immediately even if she could get it out of the garage. After finally finding the keys in the drawer, June enters the garage. June already knows how to load and fire a gun from the time when she and Luke were trying to run to Canada. This and the heavy use of taxidermy in the décor is a clue that the house’s summer occupant must be an avid outdoor sportsman, the sort of person likely to have a gun in the home. There’s a photo of the Commander’s wife with Hannah and a big, freshly caught fish. It could be any white building, but it also looks like a memory of a family trip to the remains of the U.S. There’s a framed drawing on the desk of Hannah with the Commander and his wife in front of a big white house with barred windows, obviously done by Hannah. at the stage of takeover and reminders that Hannah has been here. ![]() The house is full of Easter eggs: maps of the U.S. And then she sees the wolf looking at her and goes back to the house to look for keys. She runs into the woods, pauses to catch her breath, runs back, finds a large garage with a car locked inside it. We begin at the exact moment where we left off: with June out of breath, alone outside the deserted house.
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