Miserable without each other 😭

It’s so obvious is that she loves him

If Season 6 of The Handmaid’s Tale is about choice and reckoning, then it’s time the writers confronted one of the few illusions June still hasn’t broken: the myth of Luke as the safe, loyal, “good” man.

Because here’s the reality:

• Luke passively watched her lose her rights under Gilead.

• He acted too late to get her and Hannah to safety.

• And after they were captured, he did nothing for seven years to find them—not actively, not in any way the show has shown us.

When June returned, traumatized and fundamentally changed, she went back to him—because he waited. But waiting isn’t action. And his love often feels less like support and more like entitlement.

Episode 7 makes that clear. When June reveals the truth about what happened with Nick and Jezebel’s, Luke lashes out:

“Don’t be in love with a fucking Nazi.”

That line wasn’t about Mayday. It wasn’t about safety. It was jealousy—his need to be the center of June’s love, even when she’s broken. And the most frustrating part? She doesn’t push back. Not yet. It’s like she’s still trying to protect the fragile idea of who Luke is.

But June has stood up to Gilead. To Serena. Even to Nick.

It’s time she stood up to Luke, too.

Because if this season is truly about clarity, then Luke’s pedestal needs to crack just like every other illusion she’s had to face.

"He too is illegal, here, with me, he can't give me away. Nor I him; for the moment we're mirrors."

"But it's too dangerous, he knows it, we push each other away, not far. Too much trust, too much risk, too much already."

"I want to reach up, taste his skin, he makes me hungry."

"...as if his hand won't listen to reason. It's so good, to be touched by someone, to be felt so greedily, to feel so greedy."

"Is it so bad, for him, that he'd take the risk of coming to my room at night?"

"Is this what I would die for?"

"In the dark parlor we move away from each other, slowly, as if pulled towards each other by a force, current, pulled apart also by hands equally strong."

Then, immediately after June is thinking in bed (pages 103-104):

"I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone."

"...nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from."

Fuck, it’s not just me, right?? She’s already forgiven him or at the very least, he means more to her than all of this, and she’s missing him like crazy???

What even is this.

I just really wanted to compile all the scenes from season 1 where the sexual tension was off the charts. Like… unhinged. I don’t know if any other ship has that kind of explosive chemistry. The symbolism, the not-so-subtle gestures, the sheer intensity — it’s insane.

There’s this moment where she adjusts her dress and he catches a glimpse of her knee — and immediately he starts nervously tapping the table. And she sees it. And it’s just… electric. Or when that tension exists even with Serena right there. She enjoys it, and she wants him, and it’s so obvious.

Or the bathtub scene when she’s thinking of him. Or when they finally sleep together and she’s looking at that wild river current rushing outside, like a metaphor for the storm inside her and also that’s an insanely charged sexual metaphor. It’s all just so much.

Oh, and I absolutely adore that scene where she’s eating the porridge and gets so lost in thoughts about him that she starts licking the spoon like crazy and he sees it. It’s completely insane.

Go watch that video immediately. I swear.