Is Season 5 of “The Handmaid’s Tale” preparing Aunt Lydia to join the Resistance? According to Ann Dowd, the answer is yes.
“Lydia is keeping track of all of this,” Dowd recently told the story of Season 5 of TheWrap of Lydia. “She’s alert. She’s aware. She’s smart. She knows how to get things done, and she’s patient.
The answer won’t come as a shock to those who have read the sequel to Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, which was published in 2019. “The Testaments” is set 15 years after the events of the first book (which ends almost as beat-in-the-beatenway as Season 1 of the series does). In the story, we learn that Lydia had a direct hand in the fall of Gilead, providing vital information to the resistance organization Meade.
When asked if Lydia would join the Resistance, Dowd was clear. “The answer to that question lies” [in ‘The Testaments’], No one can do it better than Margaret Atwood.”
It was not necessary that the character would follow that path, especially considering that not only had the show taken its liberties beyond the end of the original book, but it had already had three seasons by the time the novel was published. were issued. ,
In the first four seasons of the Hulu series, the character of Ann Dowd is a complex woman who, despite a strong desire to protect the women in her care, puts her loyalty to Gilead above all else. However, it looks like the tide may be turning as the war between Gilead and the outside world is on.
While it’s completely clear that Lydia wants the best for the Handmaids, some scenes from Season 5’s third episode point to the idea that she may eventually be realizing that those who call the shots at Gilead don’t.
After Esther (McKenna Grace) poisons herself and Janine (Madeline Brewer) at the end of the second episode, an emotional Lydia slaps Esther as she faints in her hospital bed. She then walks into Janine’s room, where she prays to God and promises to “turn things around.”
Lydia’s roller coaster of emotions “completely made sense,” Dow told TheWrap.
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New episodes of “The Handmaid’s Tale” stream Wednesdays on Hulu.
