Will Thorne Staff WriterFor two seasons on “The Handmaid’s Tale,” June (Elisabeth Moss) had to repress her feelings and anger for fear of retribution.
In Season 3 of the Hulu drama, she was finally able to forge her own path as a leader, to “give people a piece of her mind,” as Moss puts it.Many of the biggest female roles on TV this year involved capturing that same restraint.
From Kaitlyn Dever playing sexual-assault victim Marie Adler in “Unbelievable,” to Michelle Dockery portraying the mother of a potential murderer in “Defending Jacob” and Octavia Spencer’s titular character breaking barriers as she faced discrimination in “Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J.
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