diff --git a/packages/bruno-app/src/components/ResponsePane/QueryResult/index.js b/packages/bruno-app/src/components/ResponsePane/QueryResult/index.js
index e9acd1f5c..b6b8d751d 100644
--- a/packages/bruno-app/src/components/ResponsePane/QueryResult/index.js
+++ b/packages/bruno-app/src/components/ResponsePane/QueryResult/index.js
@@ -20,14 +20,14 @@ const formatResponse = (data, mode, filter) => {
   }
 
   if (data === null) {
-    return data;
+    return 'null';
   }
 
   if (mode.includes('json')) {
     let isValidJSON = false;
 
     try {
-      isValidJSON = typeof JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(data)) === 'object';
+      isValidJSON = typeof JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(data)) === 'object'
     } catch (error) {
       console.log('Error parsing JSON: ', error.message);
     }
diff --git a/packages/bruno-electron/src/ipc/network/index.js b/packages/bruno-electron/src/ipc/network/index.js
index 9e37c8289..84f49d07b 100644
--- a/packages/bruno-electron/src/ipc/network/index.js
+++ b/packages/bruno-electron/src/ipc/network/index.js
@@ -365,11 +365,15 @@ const parseDataFromResponse = (response, disableParsingResponseJson = false) =>
   try {
     // Filter out ZWNBSP character
     // https://gist.github.com/antic183/619f42b559b78028d1fe9e7ae8a1352d
+
+    // If the response is a string and starts and ends with double quotes, it's a stringified JSON and should not be parsed
     data = data.replace(/^\uFEFF/, '');
-    if (!disableParsingResponseJson) {
+    if ( !disableParsingResponseJson && ! (typeof data === 'string' && data.startsWith("\"") && data.endsWith("\""))) {
       data = JSON.parse(data);
     }
-  } catch { }
+  } catch { 
+    console.log('Failed to parse response data as JSON');
+   }
 
   return { data, dataBuffer };
 };