Elisabeth Moss in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’.Credit : 

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Warning: This story contains spoilers from the series finale of The Handmaid’s Tale.

Elisabeth Moss couldn’t be happier with the way The Handmaid’s Tale concluded its near nine-year run.

Upon the Hulu drama’s series finale on May 27, the actress, 42, opened up about its final scene and how it allowed her character, June Osborne, to have her full circle moment.

In the final moments of the show, June wore teal, the trademark color of Commander’s wives, as she returned to where it all began. She walked into the ruins of the Waterford’s home, where she was raped and abused as the family’s handmaid, which has since been burned to the ground.

As she walked up the stairs, she entered her old quarters and sat on a windowsill, paralleling the opening scene of the first episode. She smiled as she imagined her long-awaited reunion with her lost Hannah before pulling out a voice recorder and reciting the same monologue that played in the series premiere.

“A chair, a table, a lamp, there’s a window with white curtains. The glass is shatterproof but it isn’t running away they’re afraid of. A handmaid wouldn’t get far,” she said slowly. “It’s those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself given a cutting edge or a twisted sheet and a chandelier.”

“I try not to think about those escapes. It’s harder on ceremony days, but thinking can hurt your chances,” she continued as the camera panned closer.

Then June smiled as she began her story, “My name is Offred.”

In an interview with Variety, Moss revealed that she “loved” the series’ ending and couldn’t think of a more fitting way to say goodbye.

“As someone who has lived telling this story for nine years, I can’t imagine it ending any other way,” she explained. “When she starts to say ‘A chair, a table, a lamp’… That moment, for the audience, is something I crave. ‘Is that the original voiceover? Is that the way the book starts?'”

For Moss, the final scene was “television gold.”

“I would never have said yes to anything that I did not feel was exactly the way that series should end,” she continued. “This whole series has always been about the same thing. It’s the same thing that I fell in love with in the first episode, and the reason I said yes to it, and it’s the same story we’re telling in the final scene.”

The actress pointed out how June has been committed to fighting for her children since the beginning and noted how the scene encapsulated her mission to make sure future generations will be free of Gilead and its backwards ways.

“That has been her story from the beginning, and it’s her story in the final scene. The fact that what she starts with is what she ends with, to me, is so f—— genius,” she continued. “And I can say that, because it’s not my idea. To me, there is no better way to say what the show is than her telling her story.”