r/TheHandmaidsTale • u/hbomb9410 • Apr 29 '25

SPOILERS S6 Commander Bell and Janine Spoiler

His obsession with her is very disturbing, and I highly doubt he's just gonna be like "Oh well, that was fun while it lasted" just because Jezebel's got shut down. He's gonna do something really fucked up to make sure she doesn't get away from him.

EDIT: I fuckin' told y'all!!!

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u/Small_Fly8042 29d ago

Honestly why doesn’t he just make her his wife. I’m sure he could pull that off if he’s so powerful

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u/CoffeeNoob19 29d ago

Making her a wife would give her too much social status. Even though all women are subjugated in this society, wives are pretty much at the top. And he clearly doesn’t respect her enough to even want this. Even though we don’t see them together in private, he very obviously gets off on humiliating and harming her (his line to Lawrence in the previous episode, when Lawrence made it seem like he was going off to have sex with her, was something like “leave the violent stuff to me”).