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Every day I thank God for being latina. My country has many flaws, but it isn't responsible for all the misery in the world.

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i'm not saying people shouldn't be reading more books, but i do think it's funny how many people thinking "reading comprehension" is just about how good you are at reading books and not like. criticial thinking skills.

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When fans of Serena Waterford say her ending up in a refugee camp was a 'fair ending'—that she 'repented' and 'paid for her crimes'—I say: The victims of the fascist system she helped create will never get that. June, who suffered her abuse for years, will never get that. The real victims of Gilead are either dead or will never have the chance to raise their children.

What message does the show send when it absolves a woman of her crimes solely because she's a woman? A crime, even with sincere remorse, is still a crime and deserves punishment (and let's remember: until the penultimate episode, Serena was still trying to gain influence in New Bethlehem). Not only does she end up unpunished with a chance to rebuild her life, but the writers even rewarded her with the prospect of love—that scene with Tuello hints at this possibility, referencing a classic, Casablanca (it seems like a joke, but it’s not).

The series ends with a distorted feminist message: forgiveness and hope exist only for one specific type of woman, the kind always seen as worthy of redemption—the white, beautiful, privileged, and wealthy woman.

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The more I reflect on the ending of The Handmaid’s Tale and how they handled everything related to Nick – from his final storyline to the marketing around the character – the more I realize I need to distance myself from anything related to this series. It’s difficult because this story deeply impacted me for years, and I grew to genuinely care about these characters.

But the way the show’s team treated this character’s journey – a story they themselves created and promoted –, along with the personal and mocking tone they used to target and ridicule the audience, is something I no longer wish to experience. I’ve never witnessed anything like it in any other show.

That’s why I refuse to let a group of egotistical individuals with sociopathic attitudes affect me with their low-quality project. This series’ ending deserves to fade into obscurity. And no, they don’t care about complaints; in fact, the more this segment of fans criticizes them, the more their egos are stroked because they achieved exactly what they wanted: the reaction.

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I can't wait to get more details about Max's character in Industry, so I can finally erase all the THT crap from my mind. Already praying he gets a truly standout role.

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I never post these, but yeah….pay attention because ALL of this 👇👇👇👇👇

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I really wish the United States and Israel would disappear from the face of the Earth. Two genocidal and fascist countries.

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The writing reeks of elitism and classism – much like the show's core audience itself. It's no surprise that, aside from his fans, nobody's questioning the deeply problematic narrative choices surrounding his character.

They crafted a young man from a broken home who – precisely because of his social vulnerability – becomes easy prey for a cult. Then in season six, they piled on additional trauma: maternal abandonment, lack of educational access (framed as his "inferiority complex"), and tied his identity to working-class labor. All to ultimately reduce him to a stereotype: the ambitious, irredeemably corrupt poor man, power-hungry and denied any path to redemption.

It's such a blatantly prejudiced narrative that only resonates with a privileged viewership – that white, upper-middle-class demographic who consumes the show as entertainment, precisely because it validates their warped perception of working-class people.

I've been thinking of how The Handmaid's Tale writers just decided to have Nick's mother abandon him to his abusive father without getting into any of the details of it and I just- why? Why would they do that to him? It just didn't achieve anything other than establishing him as someone who was never loved, was trapped by circumstance, and who took a lot of things from June that he shouldn't have because he not only had daddy issues, but mummy issues as well.

I'm assuming their goal was to show him as some sort of incel/red pill/manosphere/whatever who believed in the messaging of the SoJ because his mother abandoned him and he had no good women in his life growing up? Which really does not work in him as a character for reasons that were upheld by their own writing even within this last season.

It seems like there was a total misunderstanding of those groups, likely even done on purpose, in an effort to sloppily send some sort of message and cling to current political trends. A key component of these groups is a disdain for women, and a desire to control and dominate. Which is the exact opposite of what we saw with Nick. Nick, who didn't hate any women (not even Serena who abused him and kidnapped his daughter, or his mother who abandoned him) but instead hated himself. Nick, who constantly gave up control to the women around him (and not just June, but other women like Beth and his black market contact Marthas, Lori and Reese) and who more than happily let June dominate him, often to his detriment. Yes, Nick wanted more control over his life in a way the US and unfettered capitalism denied him, but that's not the same as wanting control over everything, women included. It's normal to want to have more control over your life, it's not to want to have control over others. And the latter is something we just never saw over Nick. In fact it's something we did see in Serena. But she's a wealthy white woman, so I guess it was ok for her to want to control others, and terrible that Nick, a mentally ill working class man of colour, to want more control over his own life.

In the end all they really achieved was writing Nick as a character that has been unloved his entire miserable life despite making sacrifices for the people he loved, and that's really just depressing as fuck.

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harassing real people over fictional things that are taboo/problematic doesn’t make you morally superior by the way. it just makes you a bully

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I'm done watching anything made by these producers and writers. They won't get my viewership or attention anymore - I refuse to support these egomaniacs who treat their audience like fools and laugh in our faces.

THEY SHOULD KNOW

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Their insistence that they killed Nick to 'make the finale about the women' — while simultaneously centering the entire season’s promotion around him — just proves how lost they were in their own narrative. They know the writing lacks coherence, and instead of owning that failure, they’re trying to justify their choices by manipulating audience perception.

I’ve honestly never seen anything like this in another show: this desperate need to retroactively reframe viewers’ understanding of a character they failed to develop properly. In their rush to destroy Nick, they undermined the revolution’s core, inflated another male character’s importance (Lawrence), and erased meaningful female arcs.

Was any of this truly necessary? Nick is a fictional character — he doesn’t exist. Yet they killed him in every possible way: narratively, symbolically, and reputationally. Now, with this forced campaign to sell him as the 'ultimate villain,' they’ve only distracted from the main story. Fans of the character won’t buy it, and his haters will smugly claim they 'knew all along.'

At this point, the season failed on every level: from the messy writing to the cynical marketing. They turned a complex drama into a circus of contradictions.

Brace yourselves, Nick fans…they are continuing to throw this in our faces on their socials. Go drag them…I did!😡

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in my head god created robert pattinson as a apology for creating men in the first place

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Thank God I discovered Industry through Max, because I got so invested in this show that it completely distracted me from the disaster that was THT’s finale. At least I can rest easy knowing that if Max’s character turns out to be an asshole, he’ll at least be a well-written asshole.

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But this guys gonna choose the wife he doesn’t care about over June? Ok……. You’re wrong, but ok. lol

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Daaammnnn Max 🥵 🔥🥹

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This scene shattered me into a thousand pieces. So beautiful, so heartbreaking, so real.