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the billboard said, "the end is near."

fly high, sweet girl.

🥀💜

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Conservative cowards keep inventing boogeymen to keep their groomed cult afraid.

White cis men are the real and constant threat to women. Not trans women. Not drag queens.

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Weird genre of person is when fans of media with actually complex and interesting characters get scared by any level of moral ambiguity whatsoever like why are you buying purity at the nuance store

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Right on brand.

Pete Hegseth is an idiot FOX host.

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I don't think Bukowski meant this literally Nick. 😩

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”

— Charles Bukowski

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Nick Blaine, Seasons 1-4ish 🩷🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

sometimes self-care is consuming a piece of media for the 174th time

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• Character Legacy Spotlight — Nick Blaine

📺 Season 1, Episode 10 – “Night”

Before they rewrote him… before the spin… there was this Nick.

June, terrified and vulnerable, tells Nick she’s pregnant. She doesn’t know how he’ll respond. She’s visibly shaken, not just by the circumstances, but by what it could mean for both of them. Nick kneels beside her slowly, gently, and places his hand on her belly. She tries to reject the tenderness, “Please don’t, it’s terrible.”

And he answers — softly, lovingly:

“No, it’s not.”

That moment shattered June’s defenses, and even broke Elisabeth Moss on set. In an interview, she shared that Max Minghella’s delivery of that line was so tender, it wrecked her emotionally while filming.

But Nick didn’t stop at words.

By the end of that very episode, he arranges her escape. No spectacle. No goodbye speech. Just a whispered directive:

“Just go with them. Trust me.”

Those men were Mayday — and Nick had just sacrificed everything:

• His relationship with June

• The chance to see his child born

• His safety and status within Gilead

He gave her freedom, knowing he might never see her again.

This is who Nick Blaine was.

A protector. A resistor. A man who chose love over power.

No matter how they try to reframe him, we remember this Nick — the one who quietly saved the woman he loved from a system that was trying to destroy her.

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Sylvia Plath, aged 25, from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" (dated June 20, 1958)

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It’s not just a question of how many comments of unhappy viewers, it’s also the number of unhappy viewers comments that are liked by even more unhappy viewers, compared to happy ones.

So overall yes, most of the audience is unhappy and not just because of Nick, even if obviously it’s a big part of it.

So what’s the mood at Handmaid’s HQ do you think? Is Bruce happy that his audience will still be angry in 25 years (because that was apparently his wish)? Did YC, ET and EM screw up ? Are they all oblivious and just think they will win all the Emmys, which clearly they absolutely don’t deserve? The best episode in S6 in my opinion was 6x03 and it wasn’t written by YC or ET and wasn’t directly by EM either so obviously they didn’t submit it.

Generally interested about what’s going on for them at this minute….

I’m trying to like every comment of unhappy viewers but it’s even hard to keep up!

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All my dreams, my hopes, my life went up in smoke 🚬🎶🎶

Nick Blaine - The Handmaid's Tale

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if you can accept serena’s “redemption” arc as either valid and/or well done, then your opinion is null and void imo. both generally and more specifically with regards to nick.

the substantial textual evidence of season 6’s arcs/character development not making sense aside, if both nick and serena’s actors are walking out of the show like, “yeah, idk man,” then arguing that the endings were anything but nonsensical left fielders is moot.

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New Bruce Miller interview on The Red Resistance podcast. He starts talking about Nick at 29:40. He said the winners quote on the plane was meant to be something Nick says in front of his father-in-law and the other commanders, but in the filming they weren’t paying attention so it made it come off not as intended. He talked about how awesome it was to be shocked by an ending that made you think about it for 25 years. And he’s doubling down that June wouldn’t have respected Nick if he had left his wife and kid…like he just hadn’t asked her to go to Paris and as if June wasn’t quick to abandon Nichole every chance she gets.🤦🏼‍♀️ To me, nothing they say will make it make sense.

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At least they are acknowledging why fans are pissed off and the betrayal of the book ending. Like there’s even a question - bad fucking writing.

“Since then, many fans have been debating and arguing whether the finale was a fitting end for Gilead's ultimate enigma. Or was it a tragic example of bad writing? Nick was a very complex character; his entire journey was a tightrope walk over a pit of moral questions, and his final moments forced everyone to ask, one last time: Who exactly was Nick Blaine, and did he get the ending he deserved?”

“In the book, he’s described to Nichole by a Mayday contact as being “so deep underground he needs a breathing tube,” painting a picture of a dedicated, almost legendary, resistance hero. This image of Nick as a committed Mayday operative stands in stark contrast to his end in the television series, where his final act on that plane reads, at least on the surface, as a reaffirmation of his Gilead allegiance. This divergence is a major reason many fans felt his TV ending was a letdown or a betrayal. After the final season aired, some fans even started online campaigns, like a Change.org petition titled "Save Nick Blaine — Bring Him Back as a Double Agent in The Testaments," showing just how much they wanted to see this more heroic, book-aligned version of Nick on screen.”

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I don’t know what’s worse: the fact that they’re still trying to gaslight us about Nick Blaine, or that maybe… they actually believe this crap.

I just read this ELLE piece declaring that Nick’s betrayal in Season 6 “proves” men will always choose power over love, and that his confession—about trading June’s plan to protect himself—was the ultimate confirmation that he’s no different from the rest of them. On the surface, the episode wants you to see it that way. The writers clearly want the audience to feel the gut-punch of betrayal. To close the door on Nick Blaine as the last “good guy” in Gilead.

But the thing is—it’s how blatantly the show rewrites its own history to sell us on this “lesson.” How do these fools not see that?! And proceed to continue to sell this complete and utter crap.

Because if you’ve actually watched the show—if you’ve sat through six seasons of this man quietly, consistently risking himself for June—it doesn’t add up. This whole storyline is wildly out of character. It isn’t earned. It doesn’t track emotionally. It doesn’t even make logistical sense given what we know about Nick and where he’s been leading up to this moment.

And let’s not pretend June doesn’t play a role in all of this either. Can someone please acknowledge that? Ugh. She’s not some innocent, passive victim of Nick’s choices—she’s part of this dynamic. She knows who he is. She’s made her own compromises. She’s lied, killed, manipulated people too. She understands him. That’s why their connection has always worked—it was never built on fantasy. It was built on recognition. And the audience knows that.

And oh yeah—let’s not forget in the end, he chooses her. He gives up his marriage. He walks away from the carefully constructed life he built to stay close to her. His last act is loving her, choosing her, and letting her go because he thinks it’s what she wants. So… what are these people watching, exactly?

You can’t spend seasons showing us a man who helped orchestrate Fred’s murder, who saved June over and over, who stayed in Gilead specifically to keep protecting her from the inside—and then suddenly flip the switch and say, “Actually, he just did it for himself.” That’s not a twist. That’s a rewrite. And it’s a lazy one.

You want to talk about tragic? How about a man who was trafficked into war as a teenager, weaponized by Gilead, radicalized by Lawrence, and then trapped in a cycle where every choice he made was a lesser evil. And still—still—he found a way to protect June. Still, he held on to love. Still, he looked at her and said, “It’s always been you."

What this article calls betrayal, I call exhaustion. A man pushed to the brink, cornered by a regime he’s been trying to escape for years, reaching for the only leverage he has left. And even then, he tries to explain it to June. He tells her he loves her and chooses her. He begs her not to look at him like that. To open her eyes and face it.

But sure. Let’s flatten all of that into “men will always choose power.” Let’s ignore six seasons of emotional complexity because the show suddenly decided it was time to close the door on him. Let’s pretend June didn’t see herself in Nick’s compromises, or that she didn’t understand them because she’s made them too.

Here’s the truth: this isn’t a story about men being irredeemable. It’s about writers who no longer understood the story they were telling—and needed Nick to fall in order to prop up the version of June they chose to end with.

Nick didn’t betray June. The show betrayed Nick (and by extension, June). And it betrayed us for ever believing they’d honor the soul of this character instead of using him as a scapegoat to make June’s “freedom” look clean.

So no, I don’t buy it. I never will. And I’m not clapping. And I’m definitely not rewriting history just to fit the finale’s hollow, cynical message.