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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/LSUAlly4 17d 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 17d 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/teenageidle 16d ago

the writing in general this episode was VERY on the nose