Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the Season 4 finale of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” streaming now on Hulu.Writer, producer and director Liz Garbus is adamantly opposed to the death penalty, something she has explored in such documentaries as “The Execution of Wanda Jean” dating back to 2002.
Yet, for her scripted television directorial debut, the fourth season finale of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” she delivers an episode that carries out such a sentence.While the idea “does go against a larger principle I have,” Garbus tells Variety, “they’re very different situations.”Certainly the biggest difference is that “The Handmaid’s Tale” is fictional — and fantastical in some ways —.
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