The Handmaid’s Story could have concluded in 2025, however our time in Gilead is way from over because of Hulu’s sequel sequence The Testaments.
Primarily based on Margaret Atwood’s 2019 novel of the identical identify, The Testaments is the coming-of-age story of June (Elisabeth Moss) and Luke’s (O-T Fagbenle) child Hannah. Taken from her dad and mom firstly of the Gilead regime, she was renamed Agnes and adopted by a Commander.
By the point The Testaments begins, Agnes (One Battle After One other breakout Chase Infiniti) is a teen. She and the opposite daughters of high-ranking Gilead officers are in coaching to turn into wives at an elite preparatory faculty run by Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd).
The Testaments‘ first trailer presents Agnes and her fellow college students as being similar to some other excessive schoolers. They complain about their plum-colored uniforms, play video games at recess, and stroll down the hallways in tight-knit buddy teams. That, coupled with using The Cranberries’ hit “Desires,” provides The Testaments a slight Derry Women vibe — if Derry Women have been stuffed with homicide, non secular fanaticism, and sexual violence, that’s.
Agnes’s world adjustments with the arrival of Daisy (Lucy Halliday), a convert from Canada who’s been taken into Gilead. Nevertheless, because the trailer reveals, Daisy is definitely an undercover operative attempting to save lots of the younger girls on the faculty. May she be working alongside June, who ended The Handmaid’s Story with a promise to maintain combating Gilead? Moss shouldn’t be confirmed to be starring within the present, however she is an govt producer, so a June return could also be within the playing cards.
The Testaments premieres Apr. 8 on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.
