š Fact Check Friday: āNick Was Never Anti-Gilead Really? Letās Talk About That.
In Season 6, the writers pushed a narrative that Nick was never anti-Gilead, just a man surviving in the system. But thatās not just a mischaracterization, itās a direct contradiction of canon, and even of what Bruce Miller himself has said in earlier interviews.
Hereās what Bruce Miller wrote in a Reddit AMA (via Hulu_Official):
āNickās belief in any aspects of the Gilead ārevolutionā have long-since faded. Heās focused on survival ā his own, Juneās, the life of his child.ā
He also said:
āThey left him the moment Gilead took over violently, and he was a part of that takeover.ā
That doesnāt sound like someone who believes in Gilead. That sounds like someone who was used, then discarded, and has been quietly resisting ever since.
Letās back this up with receipts from the show and the novels:
šŗ TV Series: Nickās Anti-Gilead Actions
⢠Season 1: Becomes an Eye to expose corrupt Commanders (Waterford, Guthrie). Warns June about Ofglen. Organizes Juneās escape after learning sheās pregnant.
⢠Season 2: Helps bring down Commander Cushing. Holds a Commander at gunpoint so June and Holly can flee.
⢠Season 4: āArrestsā June to protect her. Tells her how to survive interrogation. Gets intel on Hannah. Hands Fred over for execution.
⢠Season 5: Makes a secret deal with Tuello to keep June and Nichole safe.
⢠Season 6: Kills two Guardians to protect June, Moira, and Luke. Retrieves escape map from Jezebels. Refuses to turn June in, even when threatened with death.
š In Margaret Atwoodās Novels
⢠The Handmaidās Tale: Nick is part of Mayday and organizes Offredās escape.
⢠The Testaments: Nick is alive, in hiding, and working undercover for Mayday.
ā The Truth:
Nick Blaine has never been pro-Gilead.
He was in it, not of it ā surviving, resisting, and protecting the people he loves from the inside.
So when Season 6 tries to erase that legacy and gaslight the audience into believing he was never on the right side of history ā we push back.
Because the truth is in the text.
And we remember what they want us to forget.













