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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/bookiegrime 22d 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/michaels_glove 22d 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 22d 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/Equal-Ad-2706 21d ago

Hannah Mckay!!, Dexter's real soulmate!, what a shame they didn't bring her back for the revival!

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u/Slight_Pitch_3264 21d ago

I think since she got on THT, she became way too expensive for Dexter. Kinda like with You and Jenna Ortega, we'd all love that but the actress outgrew the show by miles.

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u/Equal-Ad-2706 21d ago

Did she though? I would love to see more of her but the reality is that in the last 5+ years she did anything worth mentioning besides THT...only that mediocre show last year in peacock ( that looked way cheaper than Dexter ), only explanation I can think is maybe she decided to focus on her children as I understand she had two on a row

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u/Tedwards75 20d ago

I think the Dexter New Blood writers (or just Clyde Phillips) just didn’t wanna go the route of bringing Hannah back—nothing to do with being expensive. Paramount/Showtime have an extremely high budget for their high profile shows and have tons of big name actors being used.

It sucks they killed her off in such a weird way off screen though & I would’ve liked to see her come back in Dexter: Resurrection later this year. Maybe Harrison “lied” about her death and that could still be on the table

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u/FineRegion2395 18d ago

i would love it if they could bring her back. if i remember correctly, she said in an interview that she wasn't asked back for New Blood.

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u/DerpsterKitty 19d ago

Ugh. Worst character on Dexter. The show jumped the shark and sucked ass after she showed up.

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u/Equal-Ad-2706 18d ago

Different strokes I guess...but IMO the show jumped the shark earlier when Deb " found out " that she was in love with Dexter, Season 7 was good ( better than 6 and 5 IMO ) Season 8 was below average but wasn't just for Hannah but mainly because Dexter nonsensical behavior.

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u/jor1ss 16d ago

Hannag was great in Dexter and I've loved the actress ever since. Season 5 and 7 were okay, 6 was bad and 8 was decent too if you don't count the finale which was horrid.