
Warning: This story incorporates spoilers from season six of The Handmaid’s Story.
Followers of The Handmaid’s Tale are bidding farewell to extra than simply the collection.
As June (Elisabeth Moss) continued to steer the Mayday resistance towards the Republic of Gilead, her longtime lover Commander Nick Blaine (Max Minghella) launched into his ultimate journey within the penultimate episode.
After Commander Joseph Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) planted a bomb onboard a commander-only aircraft to take out Gilead’s strongest male leaders—which he deliberate to be far away from earlier than it took off—he was in the end anticipated to get on by Commander Gabriel Wharton (Josh Charles) with Nick added as a last-minute passenger within the Might 20 episode.
“She instructed me to provide all this up,” Nick instructed Joseph, an ally of the resistance, of June. As they buckled in, Joseph replied, “It’s best to have listened to her.”
For Max—whose character beforehand foiled the riot’s plan to assault a Jezabel’s brothel utilized by high-ranking commanders—Nick’s demise was “a really poignant strategy to finish to me.”