<Table> <Tr> <Th> No . overall </Th> <Th> No. in season </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Teleplay by </Th> <Th> Original release date </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 11 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> `` June '' </Td> <Td> Mike Barker </Td> <Td> Bruce Miller </Td> <Td> April 25 , 2018 ( 2018 - 04 - 25 ) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="6"> Offred and other handmaids are taken to Fenway Park , where they are made to believe they will be hanged , but it turns out to be a ruse to frighten them . During another punishment , Offred is freed after Aunt Lydia is told of her pregnancy . When she rejects a meal Aunt Lydia gives her , she is shown a pregnant handmaid , Ofwyatt , chained in a prison room due to her attempt to kill herself by drinking drain cleaner . Offred agrees to eat , and during her meal Aunt Lydia , who had told her that her friends would be punished for their disobedience , but her pregnancy would mean that she would be exempted , brings the other handmaids into the room . One by one they are burned with a gas flame . Later , Offred is at a pregnancy check - up , where she is visited by Fred and Serena , but afterwards finds a key in one of her boots , which she uses to escape to a van parked underneath the hospital . The van drops her off to a safe house in Back Bay , where she meets Nick , while Fred authorizes a highly resourced search for her . He tells her to change out of her handmaid outfit , and to cut her hair . After stripping off her handmaid 's dress , she burns it before cutting the red cattle tag out of her ear . In flashbacks throughout the episode , Hannah is admitted to the hospital for having a fever while in school ; June is questioned by one of the hospital workers about giving Hannah medication to bypass the school 's fever policy , as well as about June and Luke 's fitness as parents . Later , they arrive home to a news story about the Capitol Building and the White House being attacked . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 12 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> `` Unwomen '' </Td> <Td> Mike Barker </Td> <Td> Bruce Miller </Td> <Td> April 25 , 2018 ( 2018 - 04 - 25 ) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="6"> June has been transported to the former headquarters of The Boston Globe , another safe place arranged by Mayday . Emily has been taken to the Colonies , where disobedient and lower - class infertile women ( `` unwomen '' ) are forced to dig on highly toxic land . Many of the unwomen are becoming sick , and Emily is doing what she can to help them . A commander 's wife arrives at the Colonies and is not welcomed by the unwomen : Emily befriends her and finds that she was taken to the colonies for committing a `` sin of the flesh . '' Emily gives her tablets that turn out to be poison , which leads to her death . Emily blames her for `` holding a woman down while her husband rapes her '' . The unwomen are warned that there will be consequences for this death . Janine arrives at the Colonies , where she is briefly greeted by Emily . Nick visits June and she gets upset when he tells her she needs to wait for several weeks before she can leave because everyone is looking for her . Nick ends up giving her the keys to a car and a gun but she decides to stay , and they have sex . In a flashback , after the attack on the Capitol Building and the White House , Emily is told by her boss , Professor Dan , that she will not be teaching the following semester at the university , giving her a lower profile to avoid attracting criticism for her sexual orientation . Professor Dan is later seen hanged at the university with the word `` faggot '' spray painted underneath him . While Emily , along with her wife Sylvia and son Oliver , attempt to emigrate to Canada , she is unable to leave the country because their same - sex marriage is no longer recognized , and it becomes known that she is the biological mother of Oliver . June makes a memorial for The Boston Globe employees who were executed at the newspaper 's former headquarters and prays to God to send an angel to watch over it
<Table> <Tr> <Th> No . overall </Th> <Th> No. in season </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Teleplay by </Th> <Th> Original release date </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 11 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> `` June '' </Td> <Td> Mike Barker </Td> <Td> Bruce Miller </Td> <Td> April 25 , 2018 ( 2018 - 04 - 25 ) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="6"> Offred and other handmaids are taken to Fenway Park , where they are made to believe they will be hanged , but it turns out to be a ruse to frighten them . During another punishment , Offred is freed after Aunt Lydia is told of her pregnancy . When she rejects a meal Aunt Lydia gives her , she is shown a pregnant handmaid , Ofwyatt , chained in a prison room due to her attempt to kill herself by drinking drain cleaner . Offred agrees to eat , and during her meal Aunt Lydia , who had told her that her friends would be punished for their disobedience , but her pregnancy would mean that she would be exempted , brings the other handmaids into the room . One by one they are burned with a gas flame . Later , Offred is at a pregnancy check - up , where she is visited by Fred and Serena , but afterwards finds a key in one of her boots , which she uses to escape to a van parked underneath the hospital . The van drops her off to a safe house in Back Bay , where she meets Nick , while Fred authorizes a highly resourced search for her . He tells her to change out of her handmaid outfit , and to cut her hair . After stripping off her handmaid 's dress , she burns it before cutting the red cattle tag out of her ear . In flashbacks throughout the episode , Hannah is admitted to the hospital for having a fever while in school ; June is questioned by one of the hospital workers about giving Hannah medication to bypass the school 's fever policy , as well as about June and Luke 's fitness as parents . Later , they arrive home to a news story about the Capitol Building and the White House being attacked . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 12 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> `` Unwomen '' </Td> <Td> Mike Barker </Td> <Td> Bruce Miller </Td> <Td> April 25 , 2018 ( 2018 - 04 - 25 ) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td colspan="6"> June has been transported to the former headquarters of The Boston Globe , another safe place arranged by Mayday . Emily has been taken to the Colonies , where disobedient and lower - class infertile women ( `` unwomen '' ) are forced to dig on highly toxic land . Many of the unwomen are becoming sick , and Emily is doing what she can to help them . A commander 's wife arrives at the Colonies and is not welcomed by the unwomen : Emily befriends her and finds that she was taken to the colonies for committing a `` sin of the flesh . '' Emily gives her tablets that turn out to be poison , which leads to her death . Emily blames her for `` holding a woman down while her husband rapes her '' . The unwomen are warned that there will be consequences for this death . Janine arrives at the Colonies , where she is briefly greeted by Emily . Nick visits June and she gets upset when he tells her she needs to wait for several weeks before she can leave because everyone is looking for her . Nick ends up giving her the keys to a car and a gun but she decides to stay , and they have sex . In a flashback , after the attack on the Capitol Building and the White House , Emily is told by her boss , Professor Dan , that she will not be teaching the following semester at the university , giving her a lower profile to avoid attracting criticism for her sexual orientation . Professor Dan is later seen hanged at the university with the word `` faggot '' spray painted underneath him . While Emily , along with her wife Sylvia and son Oliver , attempt to emigrate to Canada , she is unable to leave the country because their same - sex marriage is no longer recognized , and it becomes known that she is the biological mother of Oliver . June makes a memorial for The Boston Globe employees who were executed at the newspaper 's former headquarters and prays to God to send an angel to watch over it
when does episode 11 of handmaids tale air
when does episode 11 of handmaids tale air
April 25 , 2018
April 25 , 2018