Heroic

What people don't seem to understand is that not every episode or tv show needs to be packed with suspense or dramatic scenes to be considered good. This episode is quiet and impactful. We see a change in June in her interaction with the doctor. Something has shifted and the trajectory of the show, and June's values, has changed. While it may not have been the most exciting episode by any means, this episode wasn't just "boring filler". It was impeccably written and intentionally placed just like every other episode.

After watching the final episode , i can now tell how this episode was so important.

If you got bored or slow, I guess that's the point of this episode. We are in June's POV anyway thus we got to have an insight or slightly feel her way into madness. It's impossible for June to not get crazy for what she has been through. This is the episode where she snapped and I think this episode effectively portrays that. It's not always the content's job to entertain.

This episode really shows June's decent into madness and her getting her empathy and purpose back. Her mean girl mentality the episode before caused this tragedy and we needed to see June her out of that state. If this episode didn't happen everyone would wonder how she got her head back on track to save the children of Gilead.

I dont think that the people who are criticizing the show saw the others seasons. I agree that the pace is slow, but that is part of The Handmaids Tale, both book and tv show. So don't start to complain about that now! It's impossible to have a revolution the way people want it, Gilead will never fall with June using bombs, guns. That way she will end up in the wall, as the doctor said to her in this episode: " how long have you had suicidal thoughts?" I do believe that this episode was great to develop Junes character, who has lost herself in the past episodes. She needed to be reminded that Handmaids are not the enemies, Gilead is. Her revenge on Ofmathew means nothing to the revolution and get her nowhere near Hannah.