#june osborne

[whitefluffyyeti]

The handmaid's tale "Exodus"

[just-b-yourself]

The Handmaid's Tale 4x9

-Keep yourself safe. Try and be happy.

Nick sees his daughter for the very last time...💔

[shaunashipmn]

THE HANDMAID'S TALE ⇢ 2x02 | UNWOMEN

[boycottthetestaments]

📌 Let’s be clear — this isn’t thoughtful writing. It’s retroactive justification.

Bruce Miller’s recent transcript from his interview on YouTube, revealed that there was no clear arc planned for Nick Blaine. His ending wasn’t earned. It wasn’t intentional. And Bruce contradicts himself in nearly every breath. Here’s the breakdown:

🔹 1. “We didn’t plan it.”

“I don’t think there was any big decision about what to do with Nick.”

→ Translation: They wrote him into a corner and called it depth.

🔹 2. “It’s a violent world.”

“We didn’t think about ‘I need to kill these characters’… it was such a violent world…”

→ Translation: The world did it, not the writers! Blame Gilead, not our lazy arc decisions!

🔹 3. “He made his choice when he got married.”

“He would never leave his pregnant wife… that was the choice.”

→ Translation: They’re pretending Nick never struggled. That he never risked anything. That his loyalty to June was meaningless.

🔹 4. “He chose the winning side.”

“He didn’t say ‘my side.’ He said ‘the winning side’… because the winning side means safe.”

→ Translation: They want to strip him of agency while also calling him a coward.

🔹 5. “He’s intimate with June, Lawrence, Rose…”

→ Translation: They’re confusing emotional complexity with narrative incoherence. Nick’s intimacy with June is not the same as his political dealings with Lawrence or his performative marriage to Rose. This is gaslighting.

🔹 6. “He has a loving moral core.”

“That’s the man June fell in love with… that’s who he is.”

→ So then why didn’t the writing reflect that?

📣 This isn’t interpretation. It’s contradiction.

Bruce Miller talks like he’s trying to sound profound, but it all falls apart under scrutiny. The writing didn’t reflect what he’s claiming now. And fans aren’t confused, we’re just not buying the spin.

🧠 Nick Blaine’s arc wasn’t confusing. It was rewritten. There was clear guidance from Margaret Atwood and everyone, except for Nick, ended where their story begins in The Testaments.

Bruce Miller is a Fucking Liar!!

[thehandmaidsdaily]

THE HANDMAID'S TALE Season 6 Teaser Trailer

[ofjonsafame]

What an insufferable prick omg.

This scene with Luke really cemented for me how horrible he was. Nick never uses June’s suffering as a weapon, he just does what he can to alleviate it, whenever he can.

Luke wants some big come to Jesus moment of sorrow from June. It’s kinda sick honestly. Like yeah it’s crazy but it’s normal for her now, and he STILL wasn’t getting how serious the danger was. All he wanted to do was talk about how it made him feel.

Anyone who has suffered knows the worst thing is hearing people say that your suffering also made others suffer, which is basically what he’s saying to her here.

Yeah the situation is bad and sucks, you don’t need to point out the obvious?! Unreal.

Luke is the type of person I can’t stand, he’s a wallower, he does nothing but insists on feeling bad for himself and non stop explaining why this is an unfair scenario for them to be in. He’s all talk, no action, all bravado, no strength of character. It’s all about what it feels like to HIM, how crazy it is to HIM, how hard it is to see her locked up for HIM, and in the final season, see look at HIM you underestimated him.

Insufferable through and through, truly.

In comparison, Nick knows that June has suffered beyond what he can possibly imagine, and doesn’t need to provoke her wounds. He suffers but never says anything (other than the single time), he just acts. He hates what she goes through but knows that him bringing it up and pounding into her how terrible her situation is will only add fuel to the fire. Especially for someone like June, she needs action, words only make it worse for her.

I hate essentially everything Luke does to be honest, starting from his very first introduction. People use the holly thing as some gotcha card but like what was he going to do? I mean Emily basically dropped the kid on his doorstep. Forgive me for not finding that to be the pinnacle of manhood and sacrifice.

Nick’s motivation is always to help June, to make her feel better, less trapped, more calm. It has nothing to do with him, her seeing his achievements, or proving himself. He doesn’t give a fuck about any of that. Because he knows how serious this is.

Lukes motive is always to prove himself, show how useful he can be, be a ‘man’ as he so degradingly puts it.

Selfishness VS selflessness.

[jackytaylor]

The Handmaid’s Tale — S6E9: Execution

[just-b-wilde]

The Handmaid’s Tale Timeline

Thanks everyone for your comments. I’m going to dig a little deeper into the data.

So what do we know or suspect?

• June was born in 1983. She mentions her age (34) in episode 2x02.

• Luke was born in 1980, mentioned in 1x06.

• According to fan wiki, Nick was born in 1990, but this was never confirmed in the show.

• Janine was born on September 30, 1992 — this is written on her file in 4x08.

• Hannah was born in 2009, according to June’s documentation. In 5x03, it’s mentioned that Hannah is 12 years old.

• Nichole/Holly was born in 2017, according to June’s records.

• Angela/Charlotte was born at the beginning of Season 1 and is still very little at the end of that season when June finds out she’s pregnant. We can assume Angela is about a year older than Holly, born in 2016.

• Caleb’s birth date is unknown, but in Season 3 it’s mentioned that he died four years ago, already as a child of Gilead. It’s also said it’s been five years since the women became Handmaids (3x10).

• When June gets to Canada, it’s mentioned that she had spent seven years in Gilead.

• June returns to Canada and Serena finds out she’s pregnant in Season 4.

• Noah is born at the end of Season 5 and still appears very young at the end of Season 6. Nick tells June in Season 5 that Rose is pregnant, and in Season 6 she still hasn’t given birth — so the time gap is less than nine months.

What does this suggest?

• Hannah was five years old when she was taken from her family. By the end of the series, she would be 13.

• Holly should be 5 years old by the end of the series, and Angela should be 6. However, Holly definitely doesn’t look like a five-year-old in Season 6.

• Gilead apparently came into existence around 2014, and June stayed there until 2021.

• At the beginning of the story, June had already spent two years in her first placement.

• Season 1 takes place in 2016. Season 2 in 2017.

• Season 3 would be in 2019, so she could have stayed with Lawrence for around two years.

• By Season 4, it should already be 2021, when June arrives in Canada. But that feels like too long a period for how much story space is actually covered.

• Seasons 5 and 6 appear to take place between 2021/2022.

• By the end of the story, June should be 39 years old, Nick 32, and Janine 30.

What definitely doesn't fit in the story?

• In 6x07, a date (26/11/2024) is visible in Nick’s car — but in the context of the story, it couldn’t possibly be 2024. It’s most likely just the actual filming date.

• In 4x08, June says she came to the Waterfords in 2017 — but that doesn’t make sense, as that’s also the year when Holly was supposed to be born.

• And as I mentioned, Holly doesn't match her supposed age in the story at all.

[lefabuleux8]

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.

[daemyra-fire]

Omg that 6x06 gif 🥺😭 he’s so happy, it hurts!! Ugh that scene makes me sad.

It irritates me that they included a sweet little cuddly normal couple moment for nick and June only to try and prove that nick only cared about ~power~, as if that big bad powerful gilead commander didn’t literally still call himself “nothing” in S5 finale. UGH!

And while I do love nicks apt so so much, the dialog in this scene makes v little sense at this point in their relationship given they break up and June says she knows nothing about him, and his solution is to tell her he’s Nick Blaine from Michigan 😂 but sure he spilled some deep seated insecurities and family issues prior to that!!

BUT still love that gif so much and loved seeing them so sweet with each other! Just wish writers had any sense of mind to recall what they wrote in the past 🥴

Yes, this moment makes no sense in the timeline, it would be more logical if that happened in the globe but well, it is a great scene, so tender to be able to see a little of how they were when they were together, but seeing it makes me feel sad, actually their whole relationship,because with the decision of the plane, their entire story loses all meaning, it's as if Nick was totally devoted to June but she simply used him.

Like in that same chapter when he tells her that they are running away, it's like the writers lost logic, one of their last conversations is Nick saying that he wants to leave Gilead with her and live a normal life and then the writers say "no, he chose Gilead and June asked him many times to leave and he didn't" ??? It doesn't make any sense and I hate them for that, because they had something perfect to develop and they threw it away

[boycottthetestaments]

THISSSSSS!!!!!!⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️

SO HELP ME GOD!

How are they expecting to get Testaments having good ratings when none of us will be watching after how they treated fans and max? Not only that they're removing his daughter from the show so now Daisy is some random girl how does that make sense? It's like a spit in the face to Margaret Atwood.

I don’t get it, it’s just so stupid. I run a business, and god, people matter. Clients, loyal audience, your base it takes years to build. How can you be so reckless with something you’ve cultivated for so long? I’m honestly shocked at how carelessly they did this and how they keep doubling down just to piss us off even more.

And the thing is , there are a lot of us. Not only are we never coming back, but we’re also going to tank every rating they’ve got. They’re going to be shocked by the force of our rage

[bo-kryzze]

THE HANDMAID'S TALE 6.10 "The Handmaid's Tale"

[warningsine]

THE HANDMAID'S TALE Elizabeth Moss as June Osborne and Yvonne Strahovski as Serena Joy Waterford

Well, God's been smiling on us so far since…since we've been on the run. Why do you make it sound romantic?

[splitscreen]

THE HANDMAID'S TALE | 6x03 - Devoted

[boycottthetestaments]

🕯️ Character Legacy Spotlight: Nick Blaine the Resistor 💚💙

They want you to believe Nick Blaine was pro-Gilead. That his rank and role define his values. But let’s set the record straight. Nick Blaine was never pro-Gilead.

📌 In the Hulu Q&A, Bruce Miller himself admitted:

“Nick’s belief in any aspects of the Gilead ‘revolution’ have long-since faded. I think they left him the moment Gilead took over violently, and he was a part of that takeover.”

Let’s break it down:

🔹 Nick became an Eye not out of loyalty, but to strike back at corrupt commanders after seeing a Handmaid hang herself. His first mission was reporting on Fred.

🔹 He vowed to protect the next Handmaid . That Handmaid was June.

🔹 His relationship with June, a Handmaid, wasn’t just romantic. It was an act of rebellion in a regime that criminalized intimacy and autonomy.

🔹 He helped orchestrate June’s escape while knowing she was pregnant with his child. He chose her freedom over his own safety.

🔹 He delivered Fred to the woods, not as a Commander, but as a man who believed in justice.

They say he “rose in the ranks.” But Fred made him a Commander as punishment, for defying him, for pointing a gun at him. It was a death sentence in disguise. But Nick survived. Because he always does.

💥 And the canon backs this up:

📖 The Handmaid’s Tale Historical Notes:

“Nick… marks himself as a member of the shadowy Mayday underground… A number of Mayday operatives are known to have infiltrated the Gileadean power structure at the highest levels…”

✊ Nick Blaine is not a villain. He’s a resistor. A survivor. A double agent. And Margaret Atwood wrote him that way.

[thehandmaidsdaily]

THE HANDMAID'S TALE Season 6 Teaser Trailer