This episode, which includes the heart-wrenching, forced separation of June from her daughter and her husband's arrest, highlights the extreme psychological toll of Gilead's practices.

In The Handmaid's Tale episode "The Last Ceremony" (Season 2, Episode 10), June faces extreme cruelty in the Waterford home as her pregnancy nears its end, culminating in a forced ceremony, a brief, emotional reunion with her daughter Hannah arranged by Nick, and her subsequent isolation in a snowy house as labor begins.