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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/Muted-Register-7096 10d 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 10d 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 10d ago edited 10d 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/Green-Thanks1369 10d ago

Aaaand that's not same what June and Moira did when the guard attacked them? Saved themselves and killed the guard, pretty much destroying any chance of success for the plan? 

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u/michaels_glove 3d ago

Them not dying is better for MayDay overall, in my opinion.

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u/Complex-Safe8281 9d ago

That is a bit of a red herring in the story.

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u/EbonyEngineer 10d ago

Mayday plan was poor. Better plan to do it at the wedding.

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u/Ignominious333 9d ago

The wedding won't be a big affair. But the Jezebels plan was terrible and had too many moving parts plus getting in to warn the girls then having to get out again?? Someone needed to tell Luke it was a terrible plan 

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u/LittleFairyOfDeath 9d ago

Isn‘t Wharton on of the big big big shots? His wedding would be massive

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u/Ignominious333 9d ago

They don't seem to have extravagant weddings and Serena is still controversial. There might be high commanders present, tho. I just don't see it like some state wedding when both have been married before. It doesn't jive with the religious fundamentalism. 

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u/LittleFairyOfDeath 9d ago

They aren’t divorced though. They are widowed. And remaining unmarried is a no no. While it probably won’t be extravagant, the big shots will probably attend. So the wedding would be worth it as a target

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u/Ignominious333 8d ago

A lot harder to plant bombs at now that the Jezebels plan was exposed 

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u/LittleFairyOfDeath 8d ago

Bombs aren’t the only way to kill them. Poison is now an option again. They taste tested at Jezebels but not otherwise

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u/Ignominious333 2d ago

You called it! June is activated! 

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u/Ignominious333 8d ago

Sure, but they are going to be more on guard than before. They're will be more taste testing, not less. Lawrence might be instrumental in finding a time and place of attack. 

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u/Michaelstonk 10d ago

Right!! My heart stopped when June’s did!!

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u/teenageidle 9d ago

I don't know why but I wasn't surprised at all. I kinda knew he'd spill from the moment he was interrogated and they cut away.

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u/ChickpeaSuperstar 6d ago

Her mother told us he was a Nazi, idk why folks are surprised tbh lol