There’s something shady in this character…
There’s an absolutely indescribable love towards all things dystopian in our society, and it seems like the obsession is here to stay. More and more new series with fantasy sci-fi premises are released every month and the genre of dystopia is attracting viewers all over the world.
The Handmaid’s Tale is one of the most gripping series released in recent years. Based on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the same name, it tells us a story about life in totalitarian society where religion and autocracy rule. The fictional country’s name is Gilead and it is run by a set of Commanders.
Those Commanders have wives and handmaid’s, with the latter being literally sex slaves, kept around to bear children. The thing is, Gilead captured fertile American women and turned them into handmaids, and there’s no way for them to escape.
One of them handmaids, June (or how she is named in Gilead – Offred) is staying in a family of Commander Fred and his wife Serena. Needless to say, her life is a nightmare, but one day she finds comfort in the arms of Fred’s driver, Nick Blaine.
After a horrible first night, which was basically an organised by Serena rape, the two of them became lovers and developed true feelings towards each other. But as the story goes by, many turbulent things happen both in the story and especially between them.
In season 3 Nick himself is promoted to Commander’s status, and that creates a huge question mark about his real personality. He starts behaving shady and as the series goes, the fans start feeling so confused they can’t figure out his true motives.
The question of whose side he is really on is bothering fans a lot, because from the actions he takes it’s nearly impossible to tell. However, many fans are sure that Nick stays true to his Anti-Gilead beliefs even being now one of the top people in the country.
“I think he is 100% with resistance, but you have to stay alive to change things. Also, to enable him to truly infiltrate I would assume having to do horrible things is part of it…if you refuse to do what the others do then you will get distrusted and killed as a traitor,” Redditor witch51 said.
It’s important for the ones like him to keep a low profile and not do any shady things, for the higher power not to suspect their real intentions, which is to tear down the regime.
While the series keeps the fans in the dark and uses different tools to make us think twice about Nick’s agenda,the book was clear on the fact that he was deep in the ideas of Mayday.
Well, to see how it all works out we have to wait until The Handmaid’s Tale season 6 is out on Hulu, which will supposedly happen in 2025.
