📌 Fact Check Friday: “Nick Was Never Anti-Gilead Really? Let’s 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 that’s not just a mischaracterization, it’s a direct contradiction of canon, and even of what Bruce Miller himself has said in earlier interviews.
Here’s what Bruce Miller wrote in a Reddit AMA (via Hulu_Official):
“Nick’s belief in any aspects of the Gilead ‘revolution’ have long-since faded. He’s focused on survival — his own, June’s, the life of his child.”
He also said:
“They left him the moment Gilead took over violently, and he was a part of that takeover.”
That doesn’t sound like someone who believes in Gilead. That sounds like someone who was used, then discarded, and has been quietly resisting ever since.
Let’s back this up with receipts from the show and the novels:
📺 TV Series: Nick’s Anti-Gilead Actions
• Season 1: Becomes an Eye to expose corrupt Commanders (Waterford, Guthrie). Warns June about Ofglen. Organizes June’s escape after learning she’s pregnant.
• Season 2: Helps bring down Commander Cushing. Holds a Commander at gunpoint so June and Holly can flee.
• Season 4: “Arrests” 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.
📚 In Margaret Atwood’s Novels
• The Handmaid’s Tale: Nick is part of Mayday and organizes Offred’s escape.
• The Testaments: Nick is alive, in hiding, and working undercover for Mayday.
✅ The Truth:
Nick Blaine has never been pro-Gilead.
He was in it, not of it — 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 — we push back.
Because the truth is in the text.
And we remember what they want us to forget.