The Handmaid’s Tale Just Reminded Us There’s a Sequel Series Coming

With The Handmaid’s Tale suddenly rocketing back into pop-culture consciousness due to its upcoming sixth and final season—and the fact that it’s unfortunately very culturally relevant again—the Hulu show has just set another reminder: the sequel series that was first being talked about in 2019 is still happening. First floated at the height of Handmaid’s initial popularity—it premiered in 2017, and had just wrapped up its third season at the time of the announcement—The Testaments will be based on Margaret Atwood’s 2018 book of the same name, itself a sequel to her groundbreaking 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s set 15 years after Handmaid’s and takes place in the still-dystopian realm of Gilead; it’s narrated by Handmaid‘s character Aunt Lydia, played on the series by Ann Dowd with Emmy-winning ferocity. In 2021, Dowd said she’d be returning for The Testaments, and now we have more details as to who’ll be sharing the screen with her. Deadline reports that young actress Lucy Hal ... Read full article.