“How do we take the iconic visuals of Washington and say, ‘Gilead has been here’?”
is the show’s most chillingly ambitious to date. June travels with the Waterfords to Washington, D.C., allowing viewers to glimpse for the first time exactly what became of the nation’s capital since the fall of America.
Through what Littlefield calls"radical visualization," the episode creates a sense that everything has changed in Washington without requiring much expository dialogue."You start with the Washington Monument and turn that into a Gilead cross—that one visual says it all. Then we go to the Lincoln Memorial, which of course is about freedom and emancipation. We destroy Lincoln, we rip him in half, we tear him out of the chair.
“Just beyond our eye line is the White House, and while we're shooting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, in the Rose Garden there are words being spoken that continue to diminish human rights and women's rights in the real world. It was, I think, two of the most powerful days I've ever had working as a producer on this show.
Littlefield also noted that the government shutdown—which began in December and stretched to the end of January to become the longest in U.S. history—impacted the show. “We had to shift our shooting schedule because they couldn’t issue a permit,” he explained. “We had to wait for the government to open back up, and we were engaged with uniformed men and women who work for the government who were presiding over that area, and I wasn't sure whether we would be welcomed or not. And we were.
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