The Handmaid’s Story Simply Reminded Us There is a Sequel Sequence Coming

With The Handmaid’s Tale immediately rocketing again into pop-culture consciousness on account of its upcoming sixth and remaining season—and the truth that it’s unfortunately very culturally relevant again—the Hulu present has simply set one other reminder: the sequel sequence that was first being talked about in 2019 remains to be occurring.

First floated on the top of Handmaid’s preliminary reputation—it premiered in 2017, and had simply wrapped up its third season on the time of the announcement—The Testaments will probably be primarily based on Margaret Atwood’s 2018 ebook of the identical title, itself a sequel to her groundbreaking 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Story. It’s set 15 years after Handmaid’s and takes place within the still-dystopian realm of Gilead; it’s narrated by Handmaid‘s character Aunt Lydia, performed on the sequence by Ann Dowd with Emmy-winning ferocity.

In 2021, Dowd said she’d be returning for The Testaments, and now we have now extra particulars as to who’ll be sharing the display screen along with her. Deadline studies that younger actress Lucy Halliday has joined the present as Daisy, finishing the trio of leads alongside Dowd as Aunt Lydia in addition to Chase Infiniti as Agnes, who was introduced final month.

The Testaments will share a creator and showrunner with Handmaid‘s, Bruce Miller—and Deadline reported in February that Handmaid‘s lead Elisabeth Moss could guest-star on the present, although that’s not but been confirmed. It might be a spoiler to say, contemplating season six of The Handmaid’s Story is but to return and her character’s final destiny is just not recognized.

Based on the commerce: “The Testaments takes place within the dystopian theocracy of Gilead greater than 15 years after the occasions of The Handmaid’s Story. The story follows the lives of three girls, The Handmaid’s Story‘s Aunt Lydia (Dowd), Agnes (Infiniti), and Daisy (Holliday), whose fates grow to be intertwined as they uncover the secrets and techniques of Gilead and the resistance towards its regime.”

Feels like Gilead remains to be not an excellent place to be a girl 15 years later—however will audiences be hungry for extra of this story almost a decade after the unique sequence? There’s no information but on when The Testaments may premiere, however we do know The Handmaid’s Story will return for its remaining spherical beginning April 8.

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