Plus, what the backup plan was if [SPOILER] didn't return. ("I didn't like the backup plan at all," Moss jokes.)

But the series’ star, executive producer, and sometimes director, Elisabeth Moss, has been its beating heart. As June, who’s renamed Offred per Gilead’s custom, Moss delivers a studied, devastating portrayal of a woman radicalized by her oppressors — one who eventually trades the handmaids’ signature crimson cloak for weapons and revolutionary garb.

Elisabeth Moss and series creator Bruce Miller reflect on six seasons of 'The Handmaid's Tale' — and reveal how they landed on that ending.