[Editor’s note: Spoilers for “The Handmaid’s Tale” Season 1 Episode 7, “The Other Side,” follow.]
It’s one of the biggest unanswered questions of Margaret Atwood’s novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” — what happened to the heroine’s husband, Luke, after their failed attempt to escape the religious dystopia in which she’s now imprisoned?
Read More: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Cast Reveals What It Feels Like to Destroy America and Become Gilead’s Power Couple (Spoilers)
For over 30 years, fans of the book have learned to cope with this uncertainty, but in the current Hulu adaptation executive produced by Bruce Miller, we get an answer in Episode 7: Luke (O-t Fagbenle) lives. Not only that, “The Other Side” chronicles exactly what happened to him after he and his wife (named June in the series, played by Elisabeth Moss) were separated. It’s a brutal story of survival that does have something resembling a happy ending — at least, as far as that term can be...
It’s one of the biggest unanswered questions of Margaret Atwood’s novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” — what happened to the heroine’s husband, Luke, after their failed attempt to escape the religious dystopia in which she’s now imprisoned?
Read More: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Cast Reveals What It Feels Like to Destroy America and Become Gilead’s Power Couple (Spoilers)
For over 30 years, fans of the book have learned to cope with this uncertainty, but in the current Hulu adaptation executive produced by Bruce Miller, we get an answer in Episode 7: Luke (O-t Fagbenle) lives. Not only that, “The Other Side” chronicles exactly what happened to him after he and his wife (named June in the series, played by Elisabeth Moss) were separated. It’s a brutal story of survival that does have something resembling a happy ending — at least, as far as that term can be...
- 5/29/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Hot off his starring role in the popular teen romance The Fault in Our Stars opposite Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort has locked down the lead role in another highly promising, albeit drastically different, project. The young actor will portray acclaimed American pianist Harvey Lavan “Van” Cliburn, Jr. in the biopic Van Cliburn.
Adapted by Andrew Stern from the book by Howard Reich, Van Cliburn will take a look at the pianist’s formative years, including his stunning win at the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow when he was only 23. At the time of his victory, Cliburn was barely known, and his triumph at the competition was a major embarrassment for Soviet-controlled Russia. 1923 marked the the first time the tournament had been held, and its obvious goal was to impress Soviet superiority at a time when tensions between the U.S. and Russia were extremely high. After all, Russia had...
Adapted by Andrew Stern from the book by Howard Reich, Van Cliburn will take a look at the pianist’s formative years, including his stunning win at the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow when he was only 23. At the time of his victory, Cliburn was barely known, and his triumph at the competition was a major embarrassment for Soviet-controlled Russia. 1923 marked the the first time the tournament had been held, and its obvious goal was to impress Soviet superiority at a time when tensions between the U.S. and Russia were extremely high. After all, Russia had...
- 6/23/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
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