I’m Convinced These Two Characters Will Both Die In The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6
I can hardly believe that after nearly eight years, Hulu’s Emmy-winning The Handmaid’s Tale will finally come to an end with its sixth season. Based on Margaret Atwood’s classic dystopian novel of the same name, The Handmaid’s Tale centers on June Osborne (Elisabeth Olsen), an American woman who is abducted by the Republic of Gilead — an ultra-conservative patriarchal society that’s rooted in religious ideology. In addition to stripping women of their rights and personhood, Gilead enslaves women like June as handmaids, assigning them to high-ranking families and tasking them with solving Gilead’s pressing infertility problem.
Given the story at hand so far, I simply can’t imagine The Handmaid’s Tale season 6 having a truly happy ending. When June is taken by Gilead’s soldiers, she’s separated from her husband, Luke (O-T Fagbenle), and their daughter, Hannah. Assigned to Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) and his wife, Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski), June realizes that Fred is impotent — a truth June hides after becoming pregnant with the child of the Waterfords’ then-driver, Nick (Max Minghella). With Luke representing the past and Nick representing a new future, June is constantly torn between her two great loves.
How & Why Nick Will Probably Die In The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6
Admittedly, I’m most interested in how The Handmaid’s Tale will handle Serena Joy’s story, but Hulu’s flagship drama has plenty of other threads and characters’ fates to wrap up too. There’s no way around it: Everyone’s lives will be at risk in the final season, but both Nick and Luke seem very much on the chopping block. June has lost so much and endured countless traumas throughout the show’s run, and it doesn’t seem like The Handmaid’s Tale season 6 will relent. I think it’s safe to say the series will take aim at those June loves the most.
Nick agrees to help the Americans, but winds up attacking Commander Lawrence…
Throughout season 5, Nick pushed June away because of both his wife Rose and his precarious position within Gilead. Meanwhile, the US tries to bring Nick over to their side of the conflict, using the promise of being with June as a means of manipulating his emotions. To secure June’s protection, Nick agrees to help the Americans, but winds up attacking Commander Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) and (potentially) revealing his traitorous ways. I don’t see Nick having very many allies left in Gilead, making his death ahead of The Testaments pretty likely, especially because he’s one to make a noble sacrifice.
How & Why Luke Will Probably Die In The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6
In The Handmaid’s Tale’s season 5 ending, Luke is taken in by Canadian authorities. After an anti-refugee Canadian citizen tries to kill June, Luke jumps in to save his wife, severely injuring June’s attacker. To me, it seems like the Canadian government will make an example of Luke in season 6. Luke’s story could be used to highlight the deadly surge in anti-refugee sentiment. Either Luke or Nick dying seems inevitable, but given that The Handmaid’s Tale never pulls punches, I believe both Nick and Luke — different aspects of June’s life — will die by the series finale.
