Max Minghella - Blog Posts

Does the Spiral fandom just use Chris Rock's real age as Ezekiel's age?

Are we all just saying that William and Ezekiel have a 30 year age gap???

Because that's what I've been seeing

Countryhumans: The Commanders of Gilead

Drew this back in December 2022 and finished it on April 13, 2024.

I wanted to draw the Commanders of Gilead from Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale in Countryhuman style. I wanted to make them as accurate as possible. *Yes, I also added Donald Trump because for my headcanon I'm working on for the Hulu series' alternate history, he's a Commander in Gilead* I previously drew my first Gilead design back in November 2022. At first, I liked it but now I don’t like the head since most Countryhumans have round heads like Countyballs. So, when I drew the Commanders, I wanted to make them more human-like heads than round but keep the style of Countryhumans like the white eyes

Commander Fred Waterford played by Joseph Fiennes

Commander Nick Blaine played by Max Minghella

Commander Joseph Lawerence played by Bradley Whitford

Commander Andrew Pryce played by Robert Curtis Brown

Commander Warren Putnam played by Stephen Kunken

Commander MacKenzie played by Jason Butler Harner

Commander Donald Trump as himself *obviously*

Commander George Winslow played by Christopher Meloni

Behind the scenes! Max Minghella aka William Shenk! Saw 9 spiral!

here. this.

There are so many things to love about the Nick and June scene this episode. I, for one, was worried that Nick was never going to be able to hold his baby so I was relieved that he gets to hold Holly

I also love the parallel of this scene to when June tells Nick she’s pregnant in 1x10

Their absolute adoration of their daughter and their genuine happiness at being together with her alone in a moment without Fred, without Serena

June finally, finally verbalizing that she loves Nick

But also, I love that they’re both feeling this love and joy and they’re both processing it differently. June is just letting herself be in that moment with no guilt or reservations or self-admonishment. She’s with a man she’s in love and their child and she’s happy and in that moment carefree

and it took her a while to get to that space

whereas Nick is so happy and so in love and he realizes that neither June nor Holly can stay there

he’s making a plan in his head at that exact moment, he’s going to do everything in his power to ensure that neither of them perish in that house and in GIlead

and he’s saying goodbye