The Handmaid’s Tale may have concluded in 2025, but our time in Gilead is far from over thanks to Hulu’s sequel series The Testaments.
Based on Margaret Atwood’s 2019 novel of the same name, The Testaments is the coming-of-age story of June (Elisabeth Moss) and Luke’s (O-T Fagbenle) baby Hannah. Taken from her parents at the beginning of the Gilead regime, she was renamed Agnes and adopted by a Commander.
By the time The Testaments begins, Agnes (One Battle After Another breakout Chase Infiniti) is a teenager. She and the other daughters of high-ranking Gilead officials are in training to become wives at an elite preparatory school run by Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd).
The Testaments‘ first trailer presents Agnes and her fellow students as being just like any other high schoolers. They complain about their plum-colored uniforms, play games at recess, and stroll down the hallways in tight-knit friend groups. That, coupled with the use of The Cranberries’ hit “Dreams,” gives The Testaments a slight Derry Girls vibe — if Derry Girls were full of murder, religious fanaticism, and sexual violence, that is.
Agnes’s world changes with the arrival of Daisy (Lucy Halliday), a convert from Canada who’s been taken into Gilead. However, as the trailer reveals, Daisy is actually an undercover operative trying to save the young women at the school. Could she be working alongside June, who ended The Handmaid’s Tale with a promise to keep fighting Gilead? Moss is not confirmed to be starring in the show, but she is an executive producer, so a June return may be in the cards.
The Testaments premieres Apr. 8 on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.
