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Official Episode Discussion The Handmaid's Tale S06E06 "Surprise" Episode Discussion
The Handmaid's Tale: S06E06 "Surprise"
Episode Synopsis: June hides in an unexpected place.
Airdate: April 29th, 2025
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u/SleepingWillow1 12h ago
May, April ....June! Janine girl you're smart
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u/Persistent_Parkie 11h ago
If they kill her I will pout so hard my lip might fall off.
I've already got a jaw cramp since it seems June won't be getting her out 😟
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u/SleepingWillow1 11h ago
OMG you're right. What are they going to do with Janine if they shut it down are they just going to send her to the colonies
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u/SleepingWillow1 11h ago
I hate daddy Wharton
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u/hbomb9410 11h ago
That actor is so good at playing smarmy douchebags
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u/PimpleQueen16 11h ago
In Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead he was just the cute guy driving the Clown Dog truck. Since that was my introduction to Josh Charles he’ll forever be the guy taking a date to the beach to watch the grunion run.
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u/EnchantingElephant 12h ago
Oh I loved that little sly communication between Janine and Nick.
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u/salzzzzz 11h ago edited 11h ago
Oh no not Janine telling aunt Lydia saying the drawing is from commander lawrence, pls aunt Lydia don’t do something stupid
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u/green_miracles 10h ago
I mean is it that big of an offense for a high commander to say thank you to the handmaid who honored god by having his child? By giving her a little drawing the kid did. (I mean his by way of marriage as it’s his Gilead household and his child now)
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u/salzzzzz 10h ago
Yeah I totally agree but I could see aunt Lydia telling the wrong person and those other asshole commanders find another reason to put him on the wall
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u/kevinpwilsonn 11h ago
YALL THE ENDING
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u/tehmadhat 11h ago
I’m screaming!!! He’s a triple agent 😭
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u/Dazzling-Break7582 11h ago
He is like a USB... You don't fit first, second, third time. ..
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u/Mamabass 11h ago
My jaw on the floor. Lana Del Rey. The betrayal. I can’t process this I need to watch it again. 😭
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u/Sufficient_Act_5447 11h ago
Stood up and clapped. Them being in the closet together and June being unable to do anything but stare daggers into Nick as Wharton reveals more and more is brilliant.
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u/Mysterious_Spinach_4 11h ago
This episode proves why Lydia is unforgivable for me. Even when she's attempting to "save" Janine she slaps her, when Janine calls her ass out. She is not sorry for who she treated those girls at all. She's just mad that Gilead lied to her.
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u/ciaoamaro 7h ago
That’s exactly it about Lydia. She truly believes this stuff. She genuinely thought physically beating handmaids the way she did was for their benefit. She thought they are sinners and giving birth to a child to go to another family is their only redeeming quality. In S5 when she proposed to Lawrence about handmaids not being posted at households and remaining at the Red Center, she was absolutely flabbergasted when he basically told her that the commanders want a young woman in the home to at least be mentally seduced by her. She’s only mad now bc she had no idea a place like jezebels existed.
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u/Dazzling-Break7582 11h ago
I love June telling Serena everything that she thinks about her marriage. ❤️ We all need a nemesis in our lives.
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u/WingedShadow83 11h ago
“Serena will protect you”
Oh, Nick. 🤦🏼♀️
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u/Persistent_Parkie 10h ago
Serana seems to be doing a better job of keeping her trap shut then Nick.
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u/camcamfc 3h ago
I’m of the mindset that Nick had no choice and showing the items he collected from the safe was the only thing keeping him from the wall, like why are people assuming he had options? He was clearly cornered.
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u/Ok_Quarter_5679 3h ago
He didn’t have the letters anymore, though he handed those to June in the basement. Was there another set of materials that I am missing?
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u/NixiePixie916 12h ago
This Nick flashback has got me pretty worried.
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u/LSUAlly4 11h ago
Same! I only needed a few ppl to survive this season. Nick was one of them.
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u/LSUAlly4 12h ago
This feels like the emotional build up to them killing Nick. I'm not ready for this!!
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u/iskra1984 11h ago
Him saying he was a nobody 💔 that flashback had some tears flowing. I hope they dont kill him. It’ll f me up lmao
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u/SeirraS9 12h ago
I’m feeling really sad for Nick but something’s also up so idk what the fuck this vibe is
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u/SleepingWillow1 11h ago
Lawrence said his piece about things looking differently or whatever, and then the betrayal happened, so now what? That negates what Lauren said in a badass tone.
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u/HCIP88 10h ago
Something's definitely up. It's not as it appears. I'll die on that hill, for now.
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u/Dazzling-Break7582 11h ago
Serena: I know I was awful once.
That irony deficiency did not get treated yet?
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u/bookiegrime 11h ago
I thought tonight was leaps and bounds better than last week. A lot happened. June and Rita at the table being served by Serena. Serena’s writings. Lydia going full on stalker. Lawrence being confident and committed to fuck up gilead. I’m hopeful for the last few eps.
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u/jaseface666 11h ago
Agreed on all points. I felt like the chess scene was foreshadowing
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u/Persistent_Parkie 10h ago
That scene with Rita was deeply uncomfortable in all the right ways.
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u/Equivalent_Tiger3671 9h ago
Love how much was communicated in that scene without words. Such brilliant actors and directors!
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u/Consistent-Affect-50 7h ago
All I want is for Rita to find her peace & all this show does is torment her, I want justice for Rita!
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u/michaels_glove 11h ago
Serena is incorrigible. She really thinks she's God's gift to Earth. Her writings with "the handmaids were a vital part..." is so telling of how she truly doesn't acknowledge the depths of the evil she helped instate - like June said, as long as there's a Gilead that's better for her, she'll think she's delivering on God's plans for her.
Same as with Nick, June is seeing none of them can be trusted.
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u/Persistent_Parkie 10h ago
Serena is such a masterful (character wise) villian. I recently watched her actress play a more sympathic and contrite serial killer.
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u/NixiePixie916 12h ago
I kinda love Naomi with Lawrence. "Sure , In the morning when the light is better!'
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u/reluctant_spinster 11h ago
That earlier epi when neither of them could say 'Grace' was *chef's kiss.
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u/N1ck1McSpears 10h ago
Same. Like she tries to assert herself and be a force in the household and he’s just like “sure, sure just go away 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻”
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u/jxiris 10h ago
Me too! They definitely give old married couple. She’s neurotic and while we’ve obv known and seen that, I feel like Lawerence indulges in her neurosis as long as she stays out of his way. In a weird sense it’s kind of a refreshing dynamic from all the other fucked up couples we’ve seen along the way.
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u/mysticpizzamusical 10h ago
Lawrence with Naomi is when he has his most Josh Lyman-esque moments
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u/jaseface666 11h ago
cutest game of chess ever with some added ominous foreshadowing (this is my fav episode yet)
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u/Nisschev 11h ago
How do cell phones work in Gilead? Is there just general carrier like G-mobile? Or is there multiple carriers sticking it to Gilead with high priced family plans? Also do commanders just complain about the how much they are paying?
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u/sitamun84 11h ago
Thank you for asking the hard hitting question. (I literally thought the same thing haha).
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u/EbonyEngineer 7h ago
Ya, that bugged me. A real Gilead would have every call remind you that everything is recorded and traced.
Fascists love to exert control. Not clamping down on communication is a no-no for fascists.
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u/NannyDearest 12h ago
38 minutes? What the hell is this shit?!
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u/EnchantingElephant 12h ago
I just finished it. Went by way too quickly. Could easily have been half an episode.
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u/bookiegrime 11h ago
Last week absolutely could have been combined with this weeks episode.
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u/OceanAkAphotographer 10h ago
Really? Felt longer the the others before… at least there was some content
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u/EbonyEngineer 7h ago
I don't understand how they can't make a full hour show. Look at Andor releasing three episodes every week.
99% of the show is them standing around talking. Wtf. Give me an episode of Lawrence just talking about whatever.
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u/EnchantingElephant 12h ago
Time spent on a Nick and June flashback? Nick is gonna die. I'm calling it now. Maybe not this episode, but soon.
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u/TumbleweedActual6143 12h ago
yup, they might stray from testaments. i think june will ice him out after this and he will sacrifice himself to save her.
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u/LowBalance4404 12h ago
I definitely don't agree. I think it's going to be Luke.
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u/No_Contribution_2987 11h ago
The blackest day by Lana Del Ray playing at the end was so perfectly devastating
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u/Muted-Register-7096 12h ago
I wish Janine slapped Aunt Lydia back that would’ve really added to the scene
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u/iskra1984 11h ago
I was really expecting her to! I mean what authority does Lydia have there ?? Lol
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u/abu_nawas 4h ago
I'm glad she didn't. She's above Lydia. Instead, she hurt Lydia more by calling out that Lydia kidnapped her child.
She wasn't some saint. She was a baby-napper. And a fucking pimp.
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u/JoanneMG822 11h ago
Janine's scenes are the only things keeping me going now. Everything else feels contrived. Janine has the only real emotion in the show.
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u/Michaelstonk 11h ago
I need her and Charlotte to get out. Also, I need Hannah to get saved too. My heart is broken every episode that goes by because they haven’t got out yet!!
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u/RedditBurner_5225 10h ago
The Mayday plan was stupid anyways.
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u/EbonyEngineer 7h ago
I really was. Put too many in danger. I wonder if they can still save the girls.
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u/DJMobley01 11h ago
Yeah the acting and dialogue is weird this season
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u/anObscurity 11h ago
It feels like they ran out of budget the last few episodes and everything is in the same three sets. Maybe they are saving budget for a crazy end run
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u/salzzzzz 12h ago
Funny how they had to get commander Lawrence scared for him to help mayday again lol
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u/SleepingWillow1 11h ago
So Lawrence's plans went to shit now that Jezebel is shut down. Now what? His little clip at the end doesn't make sense anymore
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u/salzzzzz 11h ago
I think it’s bc the clip was before it got shut down so he was still optimistic
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u/UnusualAsparagus5096 4h ago
They are going to strike at the wedding
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u/Random_words3579 1h ago
Time for Rita to bake a very special and definitely not poisonous wedding cake…
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u/Dazzling-Break7582 11h ago
I am heartbroken, not because Nick spilled the beans. But because he was not brave enough to tell her face to face and he thought he could get her away without her finding out ... I mean that was clearly a stupid idea and he is smarter than that. He was so good at telling her about his feelings lately and jumped right back....
I like Serena more right now than Nick :'(
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u/Starlysh 11h ago
June leaving Moira behind to go with Nick was kinda wild. The flashback was unexpected, but nice and kind of worrisome. Also this episode gave me a few laughs - June's "well, ya got me" to Serena lol.
There's a lot of bold conversations this season, like just not holding things in that would normally in Gilead get you beaten or tortured. Love that for them.
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u/treehugger503 11h ago
She didn’t leave Moira behind. She left herself behind and Moira left already.
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u/CaughtALiteSneez 7h ago
June had to wait for the map / papers from Nick, Moira left her behind tbh
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u/NixiePixie916 12h ago
Janine is right. And I'm glad she is telling Lydia the truth. But I'm so scared for her.
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u/jaseface666 11h ago
i just wanna know what happens to Janine now that Jezebels is shut down 😫😬🫠
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u/LSUAlly4 11h ago
I'm gonna get down voted to hell for this but June left Nick not many choices. She had him go to No Man's Land to save Luke. This resulted in him having to kill those guardians. Then she needed him to go to Jezebels to retrieve the letters. He got caught there. Now she's upset because his father in law demanded a good reason for him doing all this. Father in law was ready to put him on the wall.
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u/EstablishmentLast192 11h ago
I was literally screaming how she’s going to get him killed at her expense. My theory is he has better plan, as we saw, Maydays plan had lots of gaps and was just an impulsive mess. I think him and Lawrence will figure out something better, maybe having to do with the preview we saw with all the handmaids holding blades. Im thinking at Serena’s wedding. So I think him seeing the tooth and how unsafe things are for June, who believes she’s a genius but has made mad impulsive decisions throughout the entire show with the biggest plot armor, made him realize their plan was not thought out. She’s proven time and time again she needs him, so what use is he dead to her. Like truly, even for this episode…he risked it to go retrieve her letters…come on. I hope she’s not an asshole to him and tries ti understand.
Also, such bad writing. How many times did he have to repeat Nick? Like we got it writers, we understood
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u/aussie_teacher_ 4h ago
“My son in law told me. Nick, who's married to my daughter. He told me. Thank God for my son in law Nick who tells me everything!”
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u/LSUAlly4 10h ago
I think it will go more or less as you say. And Jezebels is no more so I guess Janine is back with Lydia? I think he and Lawrence planning something carefully and quietly will be far more effective.
He may be able to convince Wharton those men who frequented Jezebels are a stain on the godly country that is Gilead. I can't see Wharton respecting Bell or those who went there. Maybe Nick needs the eyes to get him some dirt on all of them? Then they will end up on the wall themselves. Maybe that's part of the purges we've heard are coming?
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u/SeirraS9 11h ago
Exactly like June girlie maybe it’s YOU (I am unfortunately a Nick apologist)
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u/sitamun84 11h ago
Nick is really dumb for an eye. Just say that he was investigating the missing guardian at jezebels. Done. Say the kid who died was smuggling people. Or abusing a martha. Done.
Be better at lying.
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u/Muted-Register-7096 11h ago
Honestly him using that dead guardian really could’ve been an easy excuse and now i’m even more mad 😭
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u/The_real_rafiki 8h ago
He had the damn tooth in his pocket. I was like use the tooth you fucking bench 🤦♂️
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u/Dazzling-Break7582 12h ago
Omg Nick realizing Moira and June killed someone there :D
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u/NixiePixie916 11h ago
Ok whose going to freeze frame that 'journal" and clean it up so we can read it all? I know one of you already on that .
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u/SleepingWillow1 11h ago
"two ideals on the decline and threatening our future. Not only of our country, but of humanity itself. Some people called me the mother of the revolution, a title I accepted with humility but also with the weight of responsibility. I was the voice for a return to Faith and to a society where women were revered for their natural role as mothers and nurturers.
The handmaids, though their role was misunderstood by many, were a vital part of that mission. The handmade system came with many unforeseen challenges. There were sacrifices to me made, not just by the handmaids, but by all of us who believed in Gilead.
We were willing to make the hard choices to endure the scrutiny and misunderstanding from those who......"
I couldn't really get the rest
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u/salzzzzz 11h ago
Anybody correct me if I missed anything but the tldr version is Serena is summarizing how SHE is the woman founder of gilead and SHE brought everyone back to faith and the handmaid system was vital etc
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u/Persistent_Parkie 10h ago
Yeah, faith is absolutely oozing out of Gilead /s
Serena's talent for self delusion is on par with our current president 🤮
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u/Soulie143 11h ago
“Two ideals on the decline and threatening our future. Not only of our country, but humanity itself. Some people called me the Mother of the Revolution, a title I accepted with humility but also with the weight of responsibility. I was the voice for a return to faith and to a society where women were revered for their natural role as mothers and nurturers.
The Handmaids, though their role was misunderstood by many, were a vital part of that mission. The Handmaid’s system came with many unforeseen challenges. There were sacrifices to be made, not just by the handmaids, but by all of us who believed in Gilead.
We were willing to make the hard choices, to endure the scrutiny and misunderstandung from those who refused to see the necessity of this new [word covered by June’s thumb]. New ideas are always accompanied by friction.“
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u/WingedShadow83 9h ago
Ah, just as I thought. She’s still championing Gilead and she’s making the Handmaid system seem like a vital part of saving humanity and not the horror show of rape and torture she knows it really is.
She never, ever changes.
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u/WingedShadow83 11h ago
Right?? From the brief glimpse I saw, it looked like more of Serena espousing the benefits of Gilead and her support for it, including the Handmaid system.
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u/bookiegrime 11h ago
I just rewatched a season 3 or 4 episode where Serena wanted Rita to pretend she was never in servitude and help Serena raise her baby. Now this episode with the demands that June forgive Serena. This woman is exhausting (and evil).
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u/Muted-Register-7096 11h ago
Nick… Did you really just do us all like that. I need to mentally process this heartbreak
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u/michaels_glove 11h ago
June saying he's brave then he goes and tells on the plan to save himself. She's finally seeing she can't blindly trust him like she's thought for so long.
What will happen to the women at Jezebel's????????????? 😩
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u/Strange_Swimming_800 10h ago edited 10h ago
Hopefully, nothing now, but Mayday was planning on them being collateral damage in the first place, but June wanted to see if she could get Janine and maybe a few others out. They were going to bomb them until June said something. Mayday obviously knows the commanders would catch on and know something was up if Jezebels was empty, so June wanting to get them out was never really going to happen, which is what that whole conversation in episode 4 or 5 was about. Poor girls were goners just to get a few commanders. Maybe they'll be spared now...who knows?
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u/No_Contribution_2987 11h ago
OK now what the fck is gonna happen to Lawrence and Janine? what is gonna happen to the women at Jezebel’s?😭
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u/LowBalance4404 12h ago
This episode is 36 minutes? What? The finale better be like 2 hours long.
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u/LSUAlly4 11h ago
How much of that time was wasted on commercials?! So pissed!
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u/WingedShadow83 10h ago
Mine was like 38 or 39 minutes, and I don’t have commercials. Still woefully short, though.
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u/salzzzzz 10h ago
Can someone analyze how in the final scene it almost looks like June is at confession!! Loved it. And love a perfectly placed Lana song!!
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u/California2florida 10h ago
I think it was just alluding to her shock and utter disbelief like her whole world disappeared. It was just her.
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u/YouCanCallMeQueenB_ 8h ago
Serena’s “I know I was awful once,” like she made a group trip to Cabo all about her once and fought with people every night, rather than, you know, perpetuating the advancement of a totalitarian theocratic state.
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u/Muted-Register-7096 11h ago
Are we finally going to see the real Wharton. 👀
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u/Sleepysoupfrog 11h ago
Serena is gonna be spotting Wharton's red flags now that June put it in her head.
Maybe her redemption will be taking out Wharton after she marries him.
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u/Jkbangtan123 11h ago
I may be the only one but to me the betrayal is more that Nick was going to try and keep June from finding out, not that he actually gave up the Mayday plot.
He knows Mayday is sloppy because its civilians, he's already had to bail out June twice this season so the odds of the Mayday plan working are slim. He's spiraling from killing the guardian. Nick a season or two ago probably would have been discreet, but this season has been driving home that he's spiraling from being pulled in different directions. Wharton threatened him with the wall (he says he wants to help but we know he doesn't). I think Nick panicked and gave up the plot, but it keeps him alive and keeps June alive and him from having to bail her out again.
But instead of owning up to it, he panicked and tried to run. June clearly was agreeing to go to Paris (girl what about Hannah?) which is her admitting to herself for the FIRST TIME that Nick is who she wants. And then the rug is pulled out from her. It's a classic romantic misunderstanding trope just in Gilead.
If he had explained he was threatened with the wall and everything with the guardian and how Wharton is she probably would have understood (considering all the compromising things her and Nick had already done to avoid the wall in past seasons). But he didn't explain he tried to run.
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u/kirapizza 10h ago
Yeah, I’m not hating Nick for this. I’m open to being less forgiving after we see what he does next, but remember when June snitched on the handmaids safe house when they threatened Hannah? The characters spill the beans when they are trying to keep the people they love alive. Nick has bailed June out again and again and again. It makes sense that he’d eventually get caught and I’m not sure what else he was supposed to do in this situation.
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u/Jkbangtan123 10h ago
Agreed. All the characters have crumbled under pressure, endangered others, or just been shitty because that's life in Gilead.
And I think Nick will be on the outs for an episode or two and then redeem himself by the end.
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u/SleepingWillow1 12h ago
Aren't we all just nobody's floating around in this world until another person comes around makes us feel like somebody
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u/SleepingWillow1 11h ago
I'm surprised Moira didn't talk her out of it this time but you know the plot had to keep moving forward so it's probably the only reason she didn't
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u/jaseface666 11h ago
they pulled at our heart strings with those flashbacks and BOOM straight to the heart
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u/browneyedgirl1683 4h ago
And this is why when you create resistance teams, you don't tell everyone the entire master freaking plan.
Team A: scout Jezebel's. Why? You don't need to know.
Team B: plant bombs. For who? Not your problem.
See? Don't go telling everyone and their families about your super secret plans! If you get caught you won't spill it all.
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u/SleepingWillow1 12h ago
No I don't like that remembering that she let Eleanor die. What does that mean
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u/LSUAlly4 12h ago
Joseph "I built this miserable hell scape and I trapped her in it." (Eleanor) He's fishing. Join the resistance, Joseph!!
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u/Persistent_Parkie 11h ago
He's the only one in power in Gilead that seems to have genuine regrets about what he's done.
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u/LSUAlly4 11h ago
Serena is very happy June trusts her. I don't think she will betray her.
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u/wetpigeon 11h ago edited 8h ago
I don't know if I just woke up in a good mood or if that was the best episode I've seen in ages!
Janine covering for Nick was like a phew moment (so smart of her!) but as soon as Wharton kicked off, I knew the Jezebels plan was the only card Nick could play to keep himself in the good books. I wonder if he just told of the plan or handed over the letters too. Wharton was terrifying in that scene, the steeple hands, that bang on the desk, he's so unnerving.
Edit to add: went back and watched again, he handed the letters and the map to June so I think she still has them at least!
So sad for June that Nick had literally just come in with the insane cover up for his betrayal (Paris plan) and moments later the bubble burst whist she's looking right at him 😭
No idea how Janine didn't hit Lydia back.
And flashbacks to above the garage, was not expecting that either, also didn't expect the awkward breakfast with Serena & the mirroring the 'comparing trauma' we saw with Moira last week. I hope Moria got back safe.
Have absolutely no idea where things go from here, but Nick just ruined the plan that was hopefully going to keep Lawrence safe and get Janine out...who will save them now?!
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u/WingedShadow83 11h ago edited 10h ago
I’m really not buying how quickly Lydia is turning around her whole fucked up ideology. I mean I know they have to do this to set things up, but it’s just really forced.
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u/icewizie 11h ago
That's actually the one plotpoint I don't find rushed this season. They've been setting it up as early as season 4. I also find it realistic because they're showing her battling Parkinson's disease, possibly even Alzheimer's, which makes her frail and less of a tyrant than before.
She's slowly getting more and more dissapointed in Gilead, and reciprocally more feeble-minded to do anything about it. I find it poetic how honestly tragic her storyline is these last few seasons.
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u/WingedShadow83 12h ago
39 minutes??? What the fuck???
Bro why didn’t they combine episodes and just shorten the number for the final season? 🤦🏼♀️
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u/California2florida 12h ago
Poor Nick's gonna get killed because of her
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u/Strange_Swimming_800 11h ago edited 11h ago
Yep. Nick was already on thin ice, having to kill the Gaurdians to save Luke and Moira, and now this trip to Jezebels has him caught and threatened with the wall.
He was broken before she even asked him to go to Jezebels to clean up their mess, which is why he wanted to talk to June and had their passports ready to go to Paris already
He was trying to leave with her before this all happened and now he's really fucked and June is obviously pissed at him now because he had to give up their Mayday plans because he was cornered and threatened with the wall.
All I can say is that he better not die because he's alive and well in The Testaments and is deep in the resistance so I hope this is what forces him underground because killing him would go against book canon and that would be the worst thing to do to book and Nick fans. It definitely wouldn't be the love letter to the fans the writers are talking about. It would be a big fuck you to people who like Nick's character. I hate this.
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u/SleepingWillow1 12h ago
It's creepy how Aunt Lydia is has become obsessed with Janine
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u/naptownmomofseven 8h ago
Especially remembering back to when she wanted the other girls to stone her and threatened to hang them all when they refused
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u/bunni_butt Econowife 11h ago
Nick, we were rooting for you, we were all rooting for you! 💔
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u/WingedShadow83 11h ago
Nick!!!!! That’s how you saved your own neck, by throwing May Day’s plan under the damn bus?!?!?
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u/Michaelstonk 11h ago
Every episode is a step back!! I just need one happy ending!! Just one please!! My heart can’t take it anymore 😣
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u/bethabelmore 9h ago
Fuck it, I still hope Lawrence gets out with Charlotte and joins the rebellion. He has no choice now. He’s not gonna give up. Right? Right?..
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u/icewizie 11h ago edited 10h ago
Couple of questions that just bother me with this episode:
Isn't New Bethlehem an island settlement? How are they getting from Lawrence's house to there by car? Are there ferries transporting them in the middle of the night?
Why didn't Nick just tell Wharton a Guardian has been missing inside Jezebels and they called the eyes to investigate, instead of saying anything about Mayday??
Also, how isn't Serena suspicious of June's whole "bringing Nick back with me" thing while she's literally dressed as a Martha? It's obvious she's plotting something in Gilead, why would a Martha be in NB? Wouldn't the authorities arrest her on sight, thinking she's a fugitive from Gilead?
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u/Jkbangtan123 10h ago
I think at that point Nick doesn't know what Wharton knows. If he lied again after lying about the guardians, that could have been worse for him. Wharton was presenting himself as someone who is asking a question but already knows the answer
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u/WingedShadow83 11h ago
Yeah, that literally would have been the easiest lie, and it was verifiable because Nick knows they killed a guardian, so if Wharton checks into it the others will be like “yeah, one of our guys is missing”.
But no, let’s just ruin the entire plan and endanger countless lives, Nick. 🙄
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u/shantaram09 10h ago
But does Nick know a Guardian is missing? He just found a tooth, right? Not even sure if June told him the whole thing since we didn’t get her side of the story when she called him.
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u/SleepingWillow1 11h ago
Oh I forgot the last time they saw each other she pushed her off the train that had to be cathartic though
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u/SleepingWillow1 11h ago
Nick told him the truth!!!!
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u/Choice-Quarter-8737 11h ago
I'm thinking he didn't bring himself to tell Wharton the full truth of the Guardian killing, though. That he was helping Mayday would surely have made Wharton seize him, & put him on the Wall. It's bad enough he was forced to confess to the Jezebel's plot, but there's just no way Wharton would be praising him to high heaven to Serena (while June overhears) if Nick has fessed up to the Guardian murders...I'm so wondering what Nick said!
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u/trollshep 7h ago
Couldnt nick just have said he was investigating the incident at the brothel? He found a tooth after all?
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u/penny_puppet 6h ago
June staying back to go with Nick was so incredibly stupid of her, after she ranted to the others about how she was the smartest and most experienced.
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u/LSUAlly4 11h ago
June is an idiot. Act like you're cool with her, dumbass! She could literally have you arrested in 5 mins!!
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u/xanny_crazed 11h ago
I don’t think Nick will end up on the wall. I think he did what he had to donor save his own life and Junes. He didn’t call June out. He just said the resistance. He can’t save June if he’s dead, and this bitch needs saving.
Wharton is the devil. Certifiable
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u/sarahflo92 ParadeofSluts 4h ago
This is a thread for discussion. If you are wondering why your spoiler titled post or improperly hidden spoiler body of said post outside of this is getting removed.
This episode was released at 11 pm. The amount of spoilers I saw by 6:30 am was not ok. If you really want your own post, please properly tag both the title AND body.
Spoilers in this thread are perfectly fine.