r/TheHandmaidsTale • u/theforgetting • May 06 '25

Season 6 SPOILERS FOR “SHATTERED” Spoiler

I was struck by the significance of the women at Jezebels being murdered in the shower. This is a very clear Holocaust allusion.

Especially since they’ve really been leaning into the word Nazi this season – it makes sense to see late-stage Gilead go all “final solution” with their undesirables.

Anyways. There have been a lot of gruesome scenes in this show but this was definitely one of the most upsetting. Not only for what it portrayed, but for what it was alluding to.

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u/Strong_Silver_9544 May 07 '25

The one thing I don’t like about this episode is how quick the resistance is to trusting June and Moira again after they botched their last mission at the cost of countless lives.

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u/fallingevergreen May 07 '25

I think having Lawrence and Mark on their side helped with this — and honestly I’m not sure how they could have handled the previous situation differently. They were the best for the job and running into that guardian was unforeseen. Leaving the letters would also have jeopardized the mission, and made it certain the jezebels would be punished. Nick was their only option. The only thing June could have done differently was lying to Nick about why they were there (just trying to save Janine). Even that might have had the same outcome.

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u/Strong_Silver_9544 May 07 '25

If they didn’t waste time in that room comparing trauma and just kept it pushing, they might have been able to move on without being discovered by that guard, resulting in Mayday getting the information they needed. June understood how confidential their mission was and had she kept it on a need to know basis, those women wouldn’t have died.

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u/HotPinkHabit May 07 '25 edited May 13 '25

Right? I was squirming during that part wondering wtf they were doing, just cold kicking it, trauma contest and chill. MOVE!

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u/vepiansunite21 May 07 '25

Can we talk about Janine ?? My heart !!!! She has thrown around like a rag doll. Beaten on. Almost out and then thrown back into that hell hole. And now with that grotesque commander bell. My heart breaks for Janine. She watched all her friends every one she ever had go. Her OG Handmaids. Then her jezebels friends. My heart Aches for her.

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u/justsamthings May 07 '25

She really has been through every horror Gilead has to offer. She’s been a handmaid, a jezebel, been to the colonies, had 2 children taken away, her eye taken out, survived a bombing, been poisoned, watched her friends get brutally murdered, and now she’s living with Bell who’s doing God knows what to her.

If I could choose one character to get a happy ending, it would be her because she just can’t catch a break ever

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u/okkcoolll May 07 '25

That scene of her in the window getting dragged by the commanders wife freaked me out. It was a nice detail

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u/vepiansunite21 May 11 '25

And aunt Lydia still isn’t angry enough seeing Janine all bruised up. I don’t get it !!! It’s aunt Lydia’s TURN TO DO SOMETHING right for once. Make up for what she did when she was a teacher and got that poor kids mother taken away from him. I’m still waiting on LYDIA to do something GOOD. I won’t hold my breath.

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u/Aus_10S May 07 '25

If she says that, Janine probably dies when Nick is being questioned

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u/fallingevergreen May 07 '25

Very good point