An unpublished alliance, that between Taylor Swift and Elisabeth Moss, has marked the opening of “Execution”, ninth and penultimate episode of the sixth season of “The Handmaid's Tale – The story of the ancelae”. The initial sequence of the episode, aired yesterday on the Hulu platform, is marked by a new version of “Look What you make me do”, a song originally published by Swift in 2017 in the album “Reputation”. It therefore seems the anticipation of a new “Taylor's Version” of the Americaan Sursar.
In the powerful incipit Of the episode, June Osborne – interpreted and, for the occasion, also directed by Moss – leads the revolt of the handmaids dressed in red against the commanders, symbol of the patriarchal oppression of Gilead's theocratic regime. A scene with a strong visual and symbolic impact, amplified by the chosen soundtrack.
“I wanted to use a Taylor song for many years and finally we found the perfect moment to do it,” said Elisabeth Moss in Billboard. “I am happy that we waited, there could be no better opportunity.”
The presence of the song in the series did not go unnoticed, especially in the light of the recent tensions between the singer and the ex-president Donald Trump. “You have noticed that since I said that I hate her, suddenly she is no longer hot?” Trump wrote on Truth Social, alluding to the support that Swift had publicly expressed for the democratic candidate Kamala Harris.
Many fans – the so -called Swifties – highlighted the timing between the comment of the tycoon And the debut of the song in a narrative context that denounces a repressive system in which women are silenced, controlled and reduced to the role of concubine to ensure the survival of the sterile Gilead.
During a stage of the Tour The Eras, the same Swift had described “reputation” as “a Goth-Punk moment of female anger for being manipulated by an entire social system”.
“The Handmaid's Tale”, inspired by the novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood, reaches this season in the final chapter. The series, available in Italy on Timvision, has obtained numerous awards including 15 Emmy Awards and 2 Golden Globe.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
