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I know we shouldn’t objectify him but 🥵 🔥

So glad to see him enjoying himself with stuff that has nothing to do with THAT show.

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Look at our man 😍❤️🥵

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Time for me to look up flights 😍🫶

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JFC who did their social media training??

Beyond abysmal. We must continue to remind them and bomb all social media posts.

Also is it just me or does Max look miserable filming this? It might just me overthinking.

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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🚫 They erased him. They lied to us. And now they expect us to come back.

Join the movement to hold them accountable. ✊

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Maybe I hadn't been playing this character correctly the whole time.

I still cannot move over the fact that they made him believe he was playing Nick the wrong way this whole time... Imagine, playing a character for 9 years and feeling like this...

#Justice for Max #JusticeForNickBlaine

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It really annoys me they posted this garbage article after an earlier interview with Max.

Trying to make us believe that June was rooting for Nick and for him to be redeemed is wild. More gaslighting and lies, he said it true, she -never- had a problem with him being a Guardian, an Eye or a Commander when it helped her. She didn’t care if he killed for her, she liked it. She never wanted him to be forgiven for his past.

She took what she wanted and watched him get on a plane she knew had a bomb on it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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I live for Max knowing his character better than those stupid writers did.

Love, Laugh, Max Minghella ❤️

- He can't sacrifice his position because then he can no longer be useful.

- But I believe his heart is in the right place.

#Max Minghella, the man that you are 🫶

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Honestly he is just so so fine 🥵

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I honestly thought EM coming out with new interviews was bad but JFC this is honestly not just a clown show but the full circus. 🤡

When is this nightmare going to end?

Every time they give a new interview, it just gets worse. The more they explain what happened and how we supposedly got to this mess, the dumber and more ridiculous it all sounds. It’s genuinely hard to believe.

How can such a large group of people be involved in this and still have no idea what they’re doing?

There are people out there who cared who waited and loved this story. There’s real money from producers, real survivors who are now offended and hurt, because these were extremely serious topics that deserved to be handled with respect. There are ratings that actually affect their careers going forward…

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Another video in the official Instagram means another comment 🤣🤣

I know Janine got Charlotte and freedom but that ‘cameo’ - and yes I’m calling that - in the last episode was shockingly bad. It didn’t make sense and felt like a quick scene they whipped up in a hot minute cause they never had a proper idea.

Rita being betrayed by Nick in the end also was horrible and I refuse to believe he’d act like this to someone he knew even before Saint June.

Altogether now as that one sweet Martha said all those years ago: “Fuck June Osborne”.

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Blessed Be Yvonne for posting more ❤️

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❤️

From https://www.instagram.com/p/DKdPaWHyIUA/?img_index=8&igsh=MWx0aml4b2NmM2M0MQ==

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I need to read this at length again but I’m genuinely unsure how to take it. 💔

The Handmaid’s Tale S06E09, “Execution” - #3

[...] ERIC TUCHMAN [writer, season six co-showrunner] We decided on Nick and Lawrence’s deaths when we were first breaking the season. Once we decided on Nick’s betrayal midway, that led to his fate — and Lawrence’s combined with that. We pitched the season to Hulu, MGM [Television], Lizzie [Moss goes by “Lizzie”] and all the creatives, their deaths included. Hearing that part of the pitch made Lizzie raise her hand and say, “I want to direct that one, too.” She was already directing the finale. She was on board immediately, as was Max.

ELISABETH MOSS [“June/Offred,” executive producer, director] I was in Paris shooting The Veil when they pitched us the whole season, outline by outline. I hung up from that meeting, and I said, “I have to direct episode nine.” I humbly requested and they very kindly said yes. If Nick and Lawrence are going to go, it has to be me.

TUCHMAN It’s such a huge moment in the show. It hopefully has a lot of impact. She recognized that would be really juicy to direct.

YAHLIN CHANG [writer, season six co-showrunner] Lizzie pitched it to Max first on the set of their indie movie Shell [directed by Minghella that starred Moss]. She told him something like, “You’re going to die in the coolest way.” (Laughs) So she kind of prepared him.

MAX MINGHELLA [“Nick Blaine”] We shot Shell right before this final season. We’d been working together for quite some time and she was letting it slip as to what the direction of the season was going to be, and she was very excited about it. So I was clued in quite a long time before I even read the scripts.

TUCHMAN Max recognized it was a very honest look at his character, and that we’re not trying to idealize or romanticize Nick anymore. To Max’s credit, he really embraced everything.

MINGHELLA Nick was under tremendous pressure and when people are under pressure, they don’t always think rationally. I think [when Nick told Wharton about the Jezebel’s coup] that he assumed Wharton knew the answers already, and that it was a test more than an actual interrogation. I think Nick genuinely didn’t anticipate what the consequences of that conversation were going to be, and I don’t think he would have given those answers if he had known the implications.

BRUCE MILLER [creator, writer, executive producer] Nick meant a lot to June, but all the other things that he was were not really things that would connect with her. Max has been amazing at playing a character who is a citizen of Juneland. Nick doesn’t really have loyalties anywhere else and that catches up to you in a place like Gilead. If you’re not loyal to one side or the other, you’re in danger from both sides.

TUCHMAN In The Handmaid’s Tale book [by Margaret Atwood], I don’t think Nick speaks. And in the pilot, he has very little to say. You get the vibe between him and June that there’s something cooking, but going off of just that as an actor, you wouldn’t know. It’d have to be a big leap of faith that the writers are going to do right by you. That’s to Max’s credit that he saw that from the beginning.

MINGHELLA It’s bizarre how much I liked playing Nick. I don’t think we’re particularly similar, but I found him very comfortable to play. This is a very poignant way to end to me. I felt like a grounded version of Nick, and what I was really impressed by was how much it was not what I thought it was going to be. It’s such a compliment to everybody who works on the show that they came up with something really inventive and still very much within the context of the show. I think the turn was in the decisions he made in that scene with [wife] Rose [in the hospital]. I looked at it as a morality play. The moment you make a psychological decision like that, the world will karmically punish you for it, certainly in the context of this story.

MOSS I feel like Nick was not the person June fell in love with. So as much as she can mourn the loss of the person she fell in love with, it won’t trump the loss of the women [who were killed] at Jezebel’s. But there is pain there, too. I’m not going to say there wasn’t complexity to seeing him at that wedding and June not knowing what was going to happen to him next. Of course, there’s a lot of complexity [seeing him step onto the plane].

MILLER I know it’s controversial, but it felt inevitable that June was going to lose Nick this way. They’re fighting on opposite sides and eventually, one of them is going to come upon the other at a time where they could die or sacrifice themselves. Gilead is a terrible, brutal, death-filled world, and there’s a lot of loss. Part of Nick’s backstory is that he was very involved in Gilead’s version of January 6. He’s considered one of the OG people who wasn’t going to be forgiven by the U.S or Canadian governments. He put his lot in with those people.

CHANG There are certain things about Nick that June is blind to and that our viewers, and we as writers, are blind to because we’re invested in this romance. For Nick to have risen to be part of the Gilead power regime — to be an Eye from the beginning, all the way through to becoming a Commander — he has done some bad things and we haven’t shown them so it was convenient to forget. But one of the themes this season, which you see with Wharton and Nick, is that there is no such thing as a good Gilead Commander. If you’re a man who is powerful in Gilead, it means you are touched by some of that Gilead corruption.

MINGHELLA I’m only reading scripts I’m acting in, so I wasn’t fully conscious of this more malevolent side to Nick. It was definitely a surprise reading how the show’s perspective on him shifts so dramatically in season six. But I saw it as a way to explore a facet of this character that I haven’t played yet, and that’s a pretty interesting thing to get to do six seasons into a series. I’m working now on something that is incredibly consuming, so I’ve been healthfully distracted. But I hope more than anything people find the narrative overall to be satisfying. It’s been a real labor of love for all of us. Everyone had the best intentions to deliver something that would be first and foremost unpredictable, and hopefully satisfying.

MOSS I do think Nick really loved Nichole [who is now going by her real name, Holly]. I think June will tell [her and Nick’s daughter] all of the good things about her father. She’ll tell him how much she loved him and how much he loved her. She’ll tell him how much her parents loved each other and that ultimately, I think he would have done the right thing if he had gotten the chance to do it again.

MILLER June and Nick’s relationship was amazing. I think their love was amazing, and so unexpected. And it almost saved Nick. He almost made it. June saw a really wonderful side of him, and that was a side we [the audience] saw almost all the time, but he was that guy from the beginning. He was a fucking driver. He was in the Eyes — he was the Gestapo. He’s a survivor, but he’s not much of a power player, and people like Nick get killed when they get to the top because other people want that power, whether it’s Mayday or whether it’s the other commanders allowing Mayday to blow that plane up. [...]

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Daaammnnn Max 🥵 🔥🥹

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Max and EM sitting apart again 🤣🤣

The group song talk was a bit rough. Also unless they have a group chat Max hasn’t been anywhere with them lately - considering he flew back for this stuff - so I guess Ann means the rest of them who have been on the PR tour? 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Omg extra clip when they're talking karaoke songs...

Max says "a Grease song.. Summer Lovin probably" and Lizzie says that's "very on brand" for him

And then for their GROUP karaoke song they picked That's What Friends Are For and they all three laugh hard when Ann says "that's what we've been talking about the past few days" so I wonder what that's about... they're not NOT talking about us and the overwhelming reaction to the finale amongst themselves, that's for sure lol

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If you know you know.

Y'all already know which show and which season🤣