The Handmaid’s Tale Recap, Season 5 Episode 5: ‘Fairytale’

What! No! Not June and Luke! Not again! Can’t this show just let us have one good thing without wrenching it away and throwing it into the back of a black armored truck in the dead of night? Okay, that’s not quite fair. I did enjoy the lip-smackingly delicious satisfaction of watching Serena squirm under the oppression of a Gilead pregnancy. Actually, for an episode that contained zero Janine, “Fairytale” was pretty banging all around. (You’ll note this is the second episode in a row with no Nick.)

Like many of the earlier episodes, “Fairytale” draws a link between June and Serena’s parallel universes, in this case how real life punctures a fantasy for them both. June’s…