“Was I a phoenix rising from the ashes?” Aunt Lydia asks in a voiceover midway through the sixth episode of The Testaments ’ first season. “Or was I a cockroach?” The character, played by the formidable Ann Dowd in The Handmaid’s Tale as well as this sequel, is reflecting on the choice she made, years earlier, to save herself by collaborating with the mass-murdering, right-wing misogynists who founded Gilead. But the question—of how much blame she deserves for choosing to survive by inflicting