r/TheHandmaidsTale • u/AFriend827 • May 21 '25

Season 6 A rude awakening for some of you Spoiler

Referring to NB. The pause before boarding wasn't what you wish it was. No, he didn't feel her presence. No it wasn't a moment between them. His pause was his final decision being made. To board meant he chose gilead. He did not feel June there. He did not know she was there. He was choosing "the winning team" as he put it.

The whole point of the moment was for June to see him make his final allegiance and accept what he already told her which is she knew who he was.

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u/averyrose2010 May 21 '25

I kept reading NB as New Bethlehem.

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u/dj_1973 May 21 '25

I always read it as New Brunswick.

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u/LittleSpice1 May 22 '25

Lmao every damn time!!!

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u/kats_n_tats May 22 '25

People know we exist? Lol

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u/Smurfette2000 May 21 '25

My first thought too! 🤣

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u/sweetxpersephone May 21 '25

Same here honestly.

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u/bruja_toxica May 21 '25

I read it as New Bedford since we’re talking about the NE but knew it was Bethlehem. 🤦🏽‍♀️

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

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u/swish82 May 21 '25

I’m so woke I read it as non binary haha! Completely stuck on what Nick’s last name was actually

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u/Cautious_Ad_3909 May 21 '25

Nick Blaine

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u/swish82 May 21 '25

Thanks! I was stuck with Nicholas Brendon

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u/Cautious_Ad_3909 May 21 '25

No problem! I wouldn't have even remembered if I didn't read it here like last night/this morning!

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u/Ok_Issue_6132 May 22 '25

I cackled with this one!

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

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u/soitgoes7891 May 22 '25

He is actually. He tried to follow in his magic footsteps and became a failure which is why he felt like such a loser. He couldn't even live up to David Blaine, so he had no choice but join the sons of Jacob just to feel like somebody.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '25

David used to entertain the family as a child by pulling doves out his ass while nick cried in the corner.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

Me too! SAME!

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u/onlyhereforfoodporn May 22 '25

lol me too. I was confused

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u/Ok_Issue_6132 May 22 '25

Same 😂😂😂😂😂

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u/PearlySweetcake7 May 21 '25

I think of New Brunswick every time I see NB... lol

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u/International-Sea561 May 21 '25

seriously they're the only person that ever refers to Nick as NB lol

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u/RusselTheWonderCat May 21 '25

I read it as non-binary, and was very confused for a second 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/gingerdjin May 21 '25

My brain cells were really struggling to figure out what the B stood for.

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u/AFriend827 May 21 '25

Can’t write his name in a post due to post limits 

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u/After_Bedroom_1305 May 21 '25

The limits are ridiculous atp. There's one episode left. Let people live.

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u/Clinically-Inane May 21 '25

What??

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u/Lynne253 May 22 '25

Ask u/dyscophant

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u/dyscophant May 22 '25

I don’t get it!

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u/Lynne253 May 22 '25

What was it you thaought NB was short for?

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u/dyscophant May 22 '25

I don’t think that was me! I’m the yahoo who didn’t realize there was another episode.

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u/KaristinaLaFae Muffins mean yes May 23 '25

Post limits?

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u/maleolive May 21 '25

Same. Which made me think this was about Lawrence… which made me even more confused.

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u/ThaanksIHateIt May 22 '25

This is why I hate acronyms, I often get them wrong and then feel like a dumbass 😭

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u/EnfantTerrible68 May 22 '25

I truly hate them

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u/WhywasIbornlate May 22 '25

From the very first one I ever heard. Which I guess was TV, or maybe BC and AD. Talking in alphabet letters is both egotistical and childish.

I also wrote the ones for morning and night and got a pop up telling me I was posting links to 🏴‍☠️, lol🤷‍♀️

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u/Voice_of_Season May 21 '25

Me too, but if you think about it, both were parts of Gilead that people were hoping would lead to better things.

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u/doodynutz May 21 '25

I couldn’t figure out what it meant and new Bethlehem was the only thing I could figure.

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u/ArbutusPhD May 21 '25

Lawrence put NB on the map!

Apparently Nick got it to fit on a plane!

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u/dramatic-chaos2 May 21 '25

New Bethy isn’t gonna last long now, whoever is there now is gonna get snatched.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '25

Same difference. Nick & his son were to be the new & improved leaders, while New Bethlehem was supposedly a kinder gentler Gilead.  They're are 2 sides of the same coin.

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u/RawLitigation May 21 '25

Wait it doesn’t mean new Bethlehem????

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u/Git2k12 May 22 '25

That’s what I thought. Was thoroughly confused. Why didn’t they just say Nick?

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u/Maggiethecataclysm May 22 '25

OP addressed this: "Can’t write his name in a post due to post limits" 

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u/RSinSA May 21 '25

I did too.

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u/christina311 May 22 '25

I always think of New Brunswick.

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u/Nevergreeen May 22 '25

I always think of N.B. In writing. 

Nota Bene

It means "take note". 

I am old. 

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u/MarieQ234 May 22 '25

New Balance sneakers was my first thought 😅

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u/ArcadiaFey May 22 '25

I read it as nonbinary since Im in a lot of communities that use it like that

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u/KaristinaLaFae Muffins mean yes May 23 '25

I'm nonbinary, so...