[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale‘s final season.]
It’s laborious to think about how Nick and June come again from that bombshell reveal on the finish of The Handmaid’s Story Season 6 Episode 6, “Shock.” Max Minghella and Elisabeth Moss‘ characters have been hiding in a closet in Serena’s (Yvonne Strahovski) dwelling when her new fiancé/Nick’s father-in-law, Excessive Commander Gabriel Wharton (Josh Charles), revealed that Nick divulged Mayday’s plot to assault the commanders at Jezebel’s. Wharton had Nick cornered and sure would’ve had him killed if he didn’t come clear of their tense scene earlier within the episode. However it’s an unforgivable betrayal nonetheless, one which has put the life of each trapped girl in Jezebel’s at excessive threat—Janine (Madeline Brewer) included.
Nick and June’s romance has a cut up viewers. For some, it’s their favourite romance of the present. Others see Nick as an ethical blind spot for June, given his rise within the ranks of Gilead management. Nick has by no means been very rebellious; June has introduced that combating spirit out of him. Minghella beforehand advised TV Insider (Swooon‘s sibling publication) that Nick has a really poor opinion of himself (he has the “shallowness of a goldfish,” the actor described it). His stronger moments come when he’s motivated to behave to assist June in her insurrection. Minghella additionally famous that his major motive for serving to June’s resistance is as a result of it means he can see her.