“Tonight, we will use these robes to start a war.”

That line — delivered in a voiceover as blood-red fabric is dyed, as the handmaids don their veils, as Radiohead’s “The National Anthem” thrums in the background — isn’t just a declaration. It’s a manifesto. And after everything that’s come before, The Handmaid’s Tale finally unleashes the rage it’s been holding back.

The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 Episode 8 wasn’t just an exodus. It was a reckoning.

(Disney/Steve Wilkie) Dipped in Blood, Steeped in Rage

The episode opens with June narrating the absurdity of fashion — how we once believed clothes could define us, until they were weaponized to destroy us.

Gilead assigned color-coded identities. Women became wombs, wives, and workers. But those same robes were about to be knives in the dark.

Literally.

Blades are hidden in sleeves. A dropped one almost ruins the plan. Still, Serena...