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One The Handmaid's Tale star revealed whether they are part of the sequel series, The Testaments. Based on Margaret Atwood's book of the same name, The Handmaid's Tale focuses on a dystopian future in which women have no rights and are severely abused. The Testaments is a sequel series that is now in development, which is based on another Atwood book.

Now that The Handmaid's Tale's ending has aired, the show's viewers are focused on the upcoming sequel series. For example, many fans want to know which member of The Handmaid's Tale's cast...

There’s something oddly satisfying about dystopian shows that unite viewers from around the world to throw logic to the wind and entertain hypothetical wonderings. Dystopian thrillers and dramas normally depict a world almost completely void of human existence, with only a few remaining civilizations to save humanity. There is also the common theme of an oppressing force (i.e. the last government standing or the strongest group of survivors) that tries to control society while violating common universal morals. If you’re like me, you don’t rule out the fact that there is a horrifically realistic chance of some of these calamitous events happening in the real world.

That’s a wrap for The Testaments season 1. The filming for The Handmaid’s Tale spinoff has come to an end thanks to some photos shared from the cast.

Chase Infiniti, who will play Agnes/Hannah in the series, took to her Instagram Stories to share that the first season had wrapped. Just before this, Brad Alexander, who will play a character called Garth, also shared the exciting news.

When could The Testaments season 1 air on Hulu?

Now the series is in post-production, which for a series like this can have some CGI work. It’s not as much as something like Gen V or even Outlander, but there is certainly some work to do. It could involve some Adr work, which is the additional voice recording work, and some reshoots if needed.

However, for now, we can look at a potential release year as 2026. This would match similar timeframes of The Handmaid’s Tale,...

Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments is an incredible follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale, giving a bit of hope to the dystopian world of Gilead. However, another reading of the book indicates that the whole story may have been a retelling by June as she boards the van led by the Eyes at the end of The Handmaid’s Tale.

Both novels use a narrative device that indicates that these are retellings and published historical accounts within the fictional narrative of the books. Both end with an epilogue, where the texts are analyzed and their authenticity questioned at a symposium.

The ambiguity is more in The Testaments as it is told through three protagonists, with two of them being Offred’s daughters and one being an influential person in her life.

The Handmaid’s Tale’s Vague Ending Influences Our Reading of The Testaments A still from The Handmaid’s Tale | Credits: Hulu

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The Handmaid’s Tale concluded its critically lauded six-season run in May 2025. Now, Hulu is bringing viewers back to the same world with The Testaments, a show based on the 2019 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood. This sequel will be set 15 years after the finale of the original show and explore how Gilead has evolved through the eyes of a new generation of women.

Even though the regime is still in power, cracks of dissent and resistance are starting to appear within. Fans of The Handmaid’s Tale will find that even though the new show will have fresh faces leading it, there will be returning characters as well.

Also, it will follow the continuity of the original show. After all, Bruce Miller, who was in charge of The Handmaid’s Tale, is back for this new journey, and Elisabeth Moss will be in an executive producer role on the show.

The Handmaid’s Tale ended with the rebels victorious, but the war still not won. Hulu is taking viewers back into Gilead with the upcoming adaptation of The Testaments, based on the 2019 Margaret Atwood Handmaid’s Tale sequel novel. The series is currently filming in Toronto, and star Ann Dowd and creator Bruce Miller have been forthcoming with select plot details about The Testaments. But after the rather open-ended Handmaid’s Tale series finale in May, we have questions that still need answers. The Testaments follows three protagonists: Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd), Agnes/Hannah (Chase Infiniti), and Daisy (Lucy Halliday). The former two characters are known to Handmaid’s Tale fans, but Daisy is an unknown for those who haven’t read the book. Daisy in the book is a few years younger than Hannah, who’s a young teen at the start of the book before a short time jump.

While The Handmaid’s Tale saw the fall of Gilead in Boston, it didn’t see the end of the regime. That’s not surprising when you consider The Testaments is happening, and it’s a sequel to the original series. The Handmaid’s Tale ended with June continuing her mission to take down Gilead and find Hannah, and it means she needs to be in the sequel series.

Caution: There will be some book spoilers for The Testaments in this post.

However, she can’t be in it right away. The Testaments isn’t June’s story, and there’s a lot that needs to be covered first.

The Handmaid's Tale - “Exodus” - June and Moira execute their dangerous plan. Serena makes a big commitment. (Disney/Steve Wilkie) Ann Dowd The Testaments is the story of three women in Gilead

If you’ve read Margaret Atwood’s 2019 novel of the same name,...

One of the best dystopian television series ever made is experiencing a surge in streaming following its recently aired series finale. The Handmaid's Tale is currently climbing the charts on Hulu.

FlixPatrol reports thatThe Handmaid's Tale is currently at #11 on Hulu's Top 10 in the United States for June 21, 2025. The series has climbed two places, with its series finale recently hitting the streaming platform on May 27. Based on the 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale is set in a dystopian America after a second Civil War leads to the rise of a totalitarian society that subjects its fertile women (called Handmaids) into child-bearing slavery.

The Handmaid's Tale has long been a hit for Hulu since it premiered in 2017. The series ran for six seasons and aired 66 episodes, with Elisabeth Moss starring as June Osborne, a woman captured while trying to escape into Canada with her husband and daughter. She is...

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Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, based on the dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, concluded last month with the series finale, also titled “The Handmaid’s Tale.” After six seasons, it would prove difficult for creator and executive producer Bruce Miller to pen the perfect ending, he admits in the foreword to the finale script below. The episode, directed by star and EP Elisabeth Moss, struck a balance between being bittersweet and ambitious as it set up the upcoming spinoff, The Testaments.

In the finale, with the help of many former hardcore Gilead loyalists including Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski), Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) and Naomi (Ever Carradine), the underground resistance movement Mayday finally went to war with the totalitarian government. The fight for a free country will continue in The Testaments, with Dowd...

They’re going to keep coming for us,” June (Elisabeth Moss) says to her mother (Cherry Jones) in the series finale of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The rebellion that June led against Gilead has all but crushed the fascist regime’s key figures, but she knows an evil that powerful will not die quietly. Though the government is crumbling, June is still not reunited with her daughter Hannah, who was taken from her to be raised as a pious Gileadean when the dictatorship began.

It’s on that not-quite-hopeful note that the series based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel by the same name ends — a frighteningly realistic conclusion to a show that, over six seasons, has reflected the United States’ slide into autocracy and the erosion of women’s rights.

“The Handmaid’s Tale” debuted just months after President Trump started his first term, and the image of red-cloaked women...

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In the final season of The Handmaid’s Tale, no character ended up where they started. That rings true for Moira, the Gilead survivor who has been played by Samira Wiley since the Hulu series began.

Moira emerges from the dystopian saga with a new lease on life. After six seasons spent helping others and mainly fighting June’s (Elisabeth Moss) battle to get daughter Hannah back, Moira ends the series somewhat open-ended but with a vow to begin living life more for herself. “Her story has been in tandem with June’s story, and now I see her focusing on individuating and trying to figure out what her story is,” Wiley tells The Hollywood Reporter as she imagines Moira’s next steps after the series faded to black with its May 26 series finale.

Though Gilead is falling and the fictional...

[This story contains major spoilers from The Handmaid’s Tale series finale, titled “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and from The Testaments novel.]

Now that The Handmaid’s Tale has revealed its ending, a new tale is coming into focus: sequel series The Testaments.

Author Margaret Atwood and show creator Bruce Miller explained in The Hollywood Reporter‘s recent oral history on the Hulu series how Atwood’s sequel novel The Testaments, which published in 2019, set The Handmaid’s Tale series ending on a different course: The Testaments takes place after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale and centers on the young girls in Gilead who are training to be wives — and that includes Hannah (who has been renamed Agnes), the daughter of Elisabeth Moss’ starring character, June Osborne.

Because Hannah is in Gilead when The Testaments will begin, The Handmaid’s Tale couldn’t end with June reuniting with her first-born daughter, which leaves the image of Hannah being ripped...

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“The Handmaid’s Tale” ended its run on Hulu with a ratings win. The series finale gathered 4.4 million views in the U.S. in its first seven days, TheWrap has learned. This marks a 22% increase in viewership compared to the Season 6 premiere, according to Hulu’s internal data.

The critically acclaimed series starring Elisabeth Moss wrapped its run after six seasons on May 27, and has been in the Top 10 on Hulu’s Top 15 Today list every day since Season 6 premiered on April 8. It also secured the No. 1 spot on the chart every Wednesday following the release of new episodes (Hulu defines a view as total stream time divided by runtime).

The series finale, appropriately titled “The Handmaid’s Tale,” followed as June (Moss) dealt with the aftermath of a big move...

Gilead isn’t finished yet. Though The Handmaid’s Tale closed its final chapter on May 27 after a gripping six-season run, its legacy lives on — through the eyes of a new generation.

Hulu’s next installment, The Testaments, is not just a continuation, but a bold reimagination of Margaret Atwood’s dystopia, diving deeper into the cracks of a crumbling empire.

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If The Handmaid’s Tale was June Osborne’s story, The Testaments belong to the daughters — and the formidable Aunt who’s still standing.

“It’s about Mean Girls growing up Gilead,” says showrunner Bruce Miller, giving a stark and biting preview to Entertainment Weekly.

“It really is about what it’s like to be young and full of energy when the country is trying to turn you into something awful… When all of a sudden they’ve been telling you, ‘you are wonderful, you’re perfect,...

With The Handmaid’s Tale series finale not really being the end of the entire story of Gilead, it wasn’t surprising to find out that Naomi Putnam-Lawrence had remained behind. However, she did do a good thing, showing a sign that she knew Gilead wasn’t a safe place for girls. As Janine was returned to the Americans, Naomi brought Charlotte back as well. Yes, Charlotte, not Angela!

It’s a sign that Naomi realizes that there are a lot of issues with Gilead, especially for girls. Her marriage to Lawrence arguably helped her change her views a little, although she still often proved that she believed in Gilead now and then. Her actions were more likely in memory of Lawrence, especially as she is now twice a widow and likely going to struggle herself in Gilead. She won’t want Charlotte taken from her, so it’s safer handing her to Janine.

On Tuesday, May 27, The Handmaid’s Tale concluded its six-season run with an epic bittersweet finale that paved the way for the upcoming spin-off The Testaments. In the final season, viewers ultimately got to know which side of history a particularly complex character wanted to be on after multiple seasons of being morally ambiguous but also carrying immense guilt and regret for what Gilead became. That character is Commander Joseph Lawrence, who was introduced in Season 2 as the founder of the Colonies and one of the architects of Gilead's economy.

Portraying the Commander in The Handmaid’s Tale was Bradley Whitford. For the role, he won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2019 and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2020 and 2021. With the show now over, Whitford had a few thoughts to air regarding his character, whose humanity he questioned and that of fellow Commanders,...

With The Handmaid’s Tale concluding with its sixth season, Yvonne Strahovski is ready to move past Serena Joy, arguably one of the most compelling and layered characters in the entire show. From being one of the more primary enforcers of Gilead’s ideology to becoming one of its victims, which is par for the course for theocratic regimes, her journey as a character was riddled with complexities and nuances.

While it remains up for debate whether she changed as a person or not, as much of it is left intentionally ambiguous, originally, creator Bruce Miller intended to kill her off pretty early into season 6.

Bruce Miller initially intended to wrap Serena’s story by killing her Yvonne Strahovski as Serena Joy in The Handmaid’s Tale | Credit: Hulu

Given the parallels between Hitler’s longtime companion and wife Eva Braun, who was at the centre of a fascist system, and Yvonne Strahovski‘s Serena,...

The last season of "The Handmaid's Tale" had explosive deaths and a deadly wedding, but the final episode is slow and impressionistic, rather than the crescendo of a climactic plot. June mostly wanders around the newly liberated Boston, thinking about her past, present, and future — and even an alternate reality where the ladies of Gilead led normal lives singing karaoke to Stevie Nicks' "Landslide." A good chunk of the episode's last ten minutes is just June walking up the stairs of the Waterfords' charred home in slow-motion. By this point in the series, the use of molasses-paced montages and extreme close-ups has lost its poeticness, becoming self-indulgent and bordering on parody.

While the dialogue-heavy callbacks, reunions, and goodbye scenes are meant to reward fans, they feel very forced. Serena begs June for forgiveness; June thanks Aunt Lydia for her final act of heroism in releasing the Handmaids; Emily makes a...

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The final scene between June (Elisabeth Moss) and Luke (O-t Fagbenle) left a lot unsaid. But if you talk to the actors who play the starring wife and husband in The Handmaid’s Tale, they are pretty clear on where the show leaves them.

In a previous finale conversation with Moss, the star and director of the final episode told The Hollywood Reporter that their final conversation was one of hope. After everything they have been through over the course of the Hulu saga’s six seasons, she said they went back to the beginning. “We had this idea to play it like they were flirting with each other, like they had crushes,” she said of her scene partner. “There’s such a circular nature to the finale and absolutely I think there’s a lot of hope for the two of them.

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about The Last of Us, America’s Got Talent, The Handmaid’s Tale and more!

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After eight years on screen, Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale took its final curtain call, featuring surprising reunions, moments of forgiveness, and the possibility of new beginnings. From the unexpected return of Emily (played by Alexis Bledel), who left the show in Season 4, June surprisingly forgiving Serena, and Janine’s well-deserved happy ending, the finale offered a mix of closure and hope for the future.

Additionally, The Handmaid's Tale ending leaves the door open for June (Elisabeth Moss), Luke (O-t Fagbenle), and the Mayday resistance to potentially return in The Testaments spinoff. Fans of the award-winning series were less than satisfied, with many claiming it felt more like a warm-up to the sequel series, The Testaments, rather than a satisfying conclusion. The Handmaid's Tale ended on Hulu on May 27, 2025, and all six seasons are currently streaming there.

Why Did The Handmaid's Tale End Like That? Read full article on The Direct.

Margaret Atwood recalls MGM’s straight-to-series order in 2016 to adapt her dystopian classic novel The Handmaid’s Tale as a Hulu series as being a touch risky.

“It was a gamble. And the gamble paid off. Anybody approaching me earlier who said we wanted to make a film about The Handmaid’s Tale, I would have said, ‘Who’s going to watch that?’” she told the second annual Hollywood Reporter Women in Entertainment Canada gala at the Ritz Carlton in Toronto on Thursday.

“When it came out, a certain number of people felt it was illuminating because, surely, the United States would never, ever do such things,” the acerbic Canadian author, poet and activist said as she picked up the Icon Award at the Ritz Carlton. She talked about the success in adapting her 1985 dystopian novel just as Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale has reached the climax for its sixth and final season,...

Warning: This story contains spoilers from Season 6 of The Handmaid’s Tale.

Fresh off the series finale, The Handmaid’s Tale cast and creatives gathered Wednesday at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles to reflect on the Emmy-winning show’s full-circle moments — and to reveal a surprise guest.

Calling the final scenes of the six-season series “a very meta experience to film,” star, director, and executive producer Elisabeth Moss described the moment her character, June Osborne, walks through the ruins of the Waterfords’ home and reflects on her past as a handmaid, known as Offred, in the Boston household.

“It was a really beautiful experience, because we had a closed set just to keep it really nice and calm,” said Moss, who directed four episodes this season, including the finale, during the FYC event. “Every single member of this crew took it upon themselves that this was going to be...

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Now that The Handmaid’s Tale has finished telling its tale, Madeline Brewer can react to Janine’s ending.

The final episode had the tricky task of ending June’s (Elisabeth Moss) story while also setting up Hulu’s Gilead TV universe with the forthcoming sequel series, The Testaments. Margaret Atwood’s follow-up story to her 1985 Handmaid’s Tale novel focuses on June’s daughter, Hannah, who has been renamed Agnes in Gilead. The Testaments sequel novel, which published in 2019, influenced how series creator Bruce Miller and co-showrunners Eric Tuchman and Yahlin Chang could end the series: The show couldn’t end with June getting Hannah back, because Hannah is still in Gilead in The Testaments. But the writers did deliver another blessed mother-daughter reunion.

In the series finale “The Handmaid’s Tale,” written by Miller and directed by Moss, Aunt Lydia...

With the Emmy-winning adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid’s Tale wrapping up the six-season arc of the revolutionary June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss), fans can finally celebrate Boston’s liberation from the authoritarian clutches of Gilead. It’s been a harrowing journey for June since the show’s 2017 premiere, and she can't entirely celebrate with her daughter Hannah still behind Gilead’s borders. With Hulu hard at work on The Testaments, an adaptation of Atwood’s 2019 sequel novel set years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, audiences will get a greater degree of resolution over the future of Hannah and the rest of the women under Gilead’s thumb. Here's how The Handmaid’s Tale’s Season 6 resolution sets up for that highly anticipated follow-up.

How did The Handmaid's Tale end?

At the conclusion of The Handmaid’s Tale, the resistance group Mayday (in collaboration with the U.S. military) successfully...

The Handmaid's Tale had what almost qualifies as a happy ending. June (Elisabeth Moss) is alive, albeit still minus her daughter, and even Emily (Alexis Bledel) has made it out of Gilead. However, showrunner Bruce Miller believes that Serena Joy Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski), who tormented June in the early days of Gilead, deserved a more brutal end to her arc.

"I wanted to kill her," he told The Hollywood Reporter. "Because I think she was such a horrible person and being dead on the side of the road completely anonymously [after she was pushed from the train in the season premiere, which she miraculously survived] would have been a fitting end. I had to be convinced not to throw her off that train, along with the kid."

But Season 6 co-showrunner Eric Tuchman disagreed. "That would have been a very shocking opening for the season, and a realistic thing that might happen," he said. "But we felt strongly that there was more story for Serena, that...

Note: This story contains spoilers from “The Handmaid’s Tale” Season 6, Episode 10.

“The Handmaid’s Tale” star Elisabeth Moss says the Hulu show’s “super meta” finale wasn’t quite an ending at all, but rather the beginning of June’s long fight to bring Hannah (Jordana Blake) home.

After an intense, emotional and heartbreaking Episode 9, Episode 10 titled “The Handmaid’s Tale” came in to wrap up the series with some sweet character returns, tender farewells and a final scene that serves as PSA that June will stay at the forefront of the resistance trying to take down Gilead.

“We put so much thought into it. We thought about lots of alternatives, lots of ideas,” Moss told TheWrap. “There were ideas that felt too convenient, or that wouldn’t lead to the sequel, ‘The Testaments,’ which we’re making. So there’s things that we just felt didn’t quite work. This was...

As The Handmaid's Tale comes to an end, the Hulu series' showrunner publicly addressed what happened to June's daughter Hannah (played by Jordana Blake). In the show's gripping finale, Elizabeth Moss' June took the spotlight for one last time. A significant component of this final chapter for the longtime TV character were flashes back to her interacting with her estranged daughter (who is now living in Colorado with Jason Butler Harner's Commander Mackenzie) in a time before the rise of Gilead, but in the present timeline, it was made unclear if the mother-daughter pair ever got to see each other again. 

Coming off of the Handmaid's Tale series finale, showrunner Yahlin Chang explained why June and Hannah never reunited by the end of the show, pointing to an adaptation of Magaret Atwood's sequel book, The Testaments, as one of the primary reasons that it did not happen. 

It has...

After six seasons that aired from April 26, 2017 to May 27, 2025, The Handmaid’s Tale came to an end, but unfortunately without June (Elisabeth Moss) reuniting with her kidnapped daughter, Hannah (Jordana Blake). Hannah was not seen much in the dystopian show’s final run, but she’s set to be one of the leads of the upcoming spin-off, The Testaments, which will continue the tragic story of Gilead. Production is currently ongoing for the follow-up in Toronto, Canada, and in addition to Hannah, it has already been previously confirmed that Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) is another returning central character.

Days before The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 concluded, executive producer Warren Littlefield hinted at how Lydia’s new perspective in the wake of the Jezebels' massacre will reshape her mindset going into The Testaments. Now, the spin-off’s showrunner, Bruce Miller, also the creator of the original series, is teasing how much of the character can be expected,...

After 6 seasons of politically-charged, gut-wrenching drama, The Handmaid's Tale has come to an end. With a hugely impactful 66 episodes needing to be wrapped up, Bruce Miller and co nailed the landing with an emotionally moving final outing that saw, among many other plot threads that included the shocking return of Alexis Bledel's Emily, the story of Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) and June (Elisabeth Moss) come to a quiet, affecting end.

After a long-standing bitterness amidst unfortunate circumstances left the two as enemies, the finale tied up their story in the most poignant way possible. With Serena's redemption now complete, one more apology to June was met with the one thing she could never have expected: forgiveness. Now tied by a shared experience and the indescribable bond of motherhood, this could well be the lasting memory of The Handmaid's Tale's final episode for millions of fans who had long been invested in their ever-twisting relationship.

“The Handmaid’s Tale” just ended, but between its loose ends and an imminent sequel, it sort of didn’t. “Ted Lasso” said goodbye, but now it’s coming back. “The Walking Dead” wrapped up, only to roll out a horde of zombie spinoffs. “Mission: Impossible” featured a “final reckoning,” but one reckons the movies won’t stay on the sidelines for very long.

It’s hardly a surprise that studios and producers would feel a powerful lure to extend the lives — and profitability — of valuable franchises. “Intellectual property” might not be one of those terms that freely trips off the public’s tongue, but even neophytes recognize that anything successful is apt to be replicated or revived in some form.

Still, the ostensible hedge-betting in ending TV or movie series has a way of creatively undermining finales — or really, “finales,” to the extent they often lack the finality that many...

After nine years on air, Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale bowed out on 27 May when the tenth and final episode of season six appeared on the platform, prompting immediate reflection from star-director Elisabeth Moss and creator Bruce Miller on June Osborne’s last stand and the franchise’s future. Both stressed that the finale is a stopping point rather than an endpoint, as a series based on Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments is already in development and expected to pick up the story 15 years later.

Moss, who helmed the closing hour, called the coda “television gold,” praising its circular design that returns June to the Waterford home in a teal dress while she repeats her opening-episode monologue.

She argued that the image captures the drama’s core argument about resistance and survival. Speaking at PaleyFest LA, she added that unresolved plot threads were intentional, leaving narrative space for the forthcoming spinoff.

When it comes to redemption arcs, there was one most of us didn’t see coming in The Handmaid’s Tale series finale. It was all about Naomi Putnam-Lawrence, and now that arc needs to continue in The Testaments.

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While there was a lot of focus on redemption for Commander Lawrence and a question about Serena’s possible redemption in the final season, nobody likely expected another Wife to get a chance to redeem herself. Naomi Putnam-Lawrence spent most of the season continuing to back the idea of Gilead until a turn at the very end.

There isn’t enough time to tell if this is a true redemption arc starting, though. The good thing about this series is that some of the storylines can continue in The Testaments. After all, we know Aunt Lydia will return and continue her redemption arc,...

Elisabeth Moss is not saying goodbye to her character from The Handmaid's Tale just yet. Sure June, formerly Offred, and her cohort of rebelling handmaids have taken their proverbial final bow in the Hulu series' finale, but the actress insists that the story is not over yet. Could that be because Margaret Atwood's sequel novel, The Testaments, is also being turned into a television series from the same team behind the Moss-fronted series? In a new interview recounting the actress's feelings about the finale, the hints seem to be pointing to "yes," even if she won't be totally explicit about it.

In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Moss was nostalgic and reflective on her time playing June. In fact, Moss calls June her favorite role she's ever played. Even more so than her career-making turn as Peggy Olsen in the hit AMC series Mad Men. And according to the actress,...

There were many callbacks to earlier episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale in the series finale. While the locations are somewhat easy to get, it’s not always that easy to get former cast members. Well, the series did it, and was able to keep these cameos a complete surprise — even from those of us who saw some of the filming!

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The final episode quickly picked up with the fall of Gilead in Boston. The Guardians had to pull back, meaning that the state of Massachssets was free from Gilead control and back under American law. This allowed one character who hasn’t been seen since the end of the fourth season make a return.

There were two characters last seen earlier in The Handmaid’s Tale season 4 that were more of a surprise in the series finale. After all, these two cameos,...

The Handmaid's Tale aired its final-ever episode today on Hulu, and while it was an emotional affair, it left a lot of questions unanswered. For one, lead character June never reunited with her daughter Hannah, who has been living in the totalitarian, oppressive regime of Gilead this whole time; finding her has been one of June's main drives. And while Gilead was weakened, it did not fall.

Creator Bruce Miller explained to The Hollywood Reporter why the show ended without this thread being tied up: "I think they say it in the book: There’s plenty of stories from people who get their kids back. Those are the one-in-a-million stories we always tell. I want to tell the story about the 999,000 people who don’t get their kids back. They have to go through life and live, and it’s not easy. June is a good example of someone who...

It's still hard to believe, but The Handmaid's Tale has come to an end. Fortunately for fans, the story of Gilead and the handmaids is far from over, as the sequel seriesThe Testaments is already in the works. During an interview with Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Bruce Miller — who helmed all seasons of The Handmaid's Taleand will keep showrunning duties for The Testaments — talked about how this week's series finale ties into the next series, and commented on the possible familiar faces that we will see when the new show kicks off.

So far, we already know that Ann Dowd (The Exorcist: Believer) will reprise her role as Aunt Lydia after she went through a powerful transformation by the end of Season 6. The Testaments will also feature a character that is both old and new: June's (Elisabeth Moss) daughter Hannah, who will be raised away from her mother as "Agnes" and...

The Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale is now officially over, but a sequel series The Testaments is already in the works.

13 cast members, including one returning star, have already been revealed for the upcoming series, which is based on author Margaret Atwood‘s novel of the same name.

More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third: Aunt Lydia. Her complex past and uncertain future unfold in surprising and pivotal ways.

Find out what happened at the end of the original series!

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Elisabeth Moss, who plays June Osborne in The Handmaid’s Tale, explained why she thinks the show’s final scene is “honestly perfection.” Based on the book by Margaret Atwood, this show has been one of the most prolific adaptations within the dystopian genre because of its powerful message and terrifying warning. After eight years, the TV show has come to an end, offering closure to the characters in The Handmaid’s Tale.

Actress Elisabeth Moss joined the TV show in 2017, pouring her heart and soul into the project. Now that it has ended, Moss has shared with Vanity Fairthat she sees the final scene as “perfection.” She said this:

"The series’ ending scene is honestly perfection. And I would never have settled for anything less than perfection when it came to this ending. We return back to the beginning,...

Wow. It's been a long journey with June and the world of The Handmaid's Tale. And now, it's officially over which is hard to believe. That's right, The Handmaid's Tale season 7 is not happening and that was the end of that chapter. Back when the sixth season was renewed, it was shared that it would be the final season as well. However, the story doesn't end there.

Even though the main Hulu series starring Elisabeth Moss is over, the tale, pun intended, will continue with the already confirmed spin-off series. If the new show follows the book it's based on, then The Testaments will feature a time jump from where season 6 of the main drama ended. We won't give away too many spoilers, though you can expect it to center on Aunt Lydia, as well as older Hannah and Nichole/Holly.

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After six wonderful seasons, The Handmaid's Tale comes full circle. The question was always whether Gilead would start to fall before The Testaments began.

Caution: This post contains Spoilers for The Handmaid's Tale series finale.

There was a lot riding on The Handmaid’s Tale season 6, episode 10. It needed to bring closure to June’s story, but it also couldn’t completely shut down the Gilead regime considering what we know of The Testaments. The writers had a lot to deliver, and arguably, it worked.

The episode opened off the back of the explosive penultimate episode. With the High Commanders gone, Boston fell to May Day. We didn’t get to see the fighting in the street, but we did learn that it took nine days for it to happen. Somewhere along the line, Janine was taken by Gilead, with June and Mark working tirelessly to find her.

It wasn’t just Boston that fell,...

The following contains spoilers for The Handmaid's Tale, Season 6, Episode 10, "The Handmaid's Tale."

The Handmaid's Tale ended the same way it began - with two women walking down the street. The first woman in question was June, played by Elisabeth Moss, while the second was someone Handmaid's Tale fans never thought they would see again - Alexis Bledel's Emily.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor explained why Emily's return was important. "It felt right to bring closure to Emily's journey and offer the audience a sense of completion," she said. "Bruce [Miller, showrunner] put together such a kind and talented group, and so many of the original crew were still there in Season 6. The production runs like a well-oiled machine - everyone brings their best. I'm excited to see what they create in [sequel series] The Testaments."

Bledel dropped out of the show after Season 5 and her character's absence was...

Warning: This article includes Spoilers for the series finale of The Handmaid's Tale!

Even though Alexis Bledel left the show four years earlier, The Handmaid’s Tale star returned for the finale, and now she’s explaining why. The dystopian story ran for six seasons, coming to a close with the series finale on May 27, 2025. Throughout most of the show's run on Hulu, Alexis Bledel's Emily was a staple of the story.

This made it all the most shocking when Bledel chose to leave The Handmaid's Tale. Narratively, they chalked the decision up to Emily leaving her loved ones in Canada so that she could go back to fight against Gilead – a noble decision that feels perfectly in character.

Although Bledel left after season 4, the Og handmaid returned for the finale of The Handmaid’s Tale, explaining to The Hollywood Reporter the reason why. She said this of her decision to return:

It was an immediate yes.

Note: This story contains spoilers from “The Handmaid’s Tale” Season 6, Episode 10.

The sun has set on Gilead. For now.

After six seasons, Hulu’s critically acclaimed series “The Handmaid’s Tale” has reached its endpoint, which is really more of a pause until the story picks up again in spinoff series “The Testaments.” And that’s what it felt like as June Osborne narrated the eponymous final episode, summing up the surviving characters’ next steps.

Not an end. Just a breather.

O-t Fagbenle and Elisabeth Moss in “The Handmaid’s Tale.” (Disney/Steve Wilkie)

Obviously, with a spinoff in the works, it was never an option to end “The Handmaid’s Tale” with the fall of Gilead. The finale was always going to be open-ended, allowing for Gilead to come back bigger and badder than ever in “The Testaments.” And while it’s a foregone conclusion that the spinoff will build on the original,...

Spoiler Alert !!!Spoiler for The Handmaid's Tale Season finale!

The Handmaid’s Tale series adaptation has finally reached its end after 6 seasons and 66 episodes. The finale, sharing the same title as the show, gave us a full-circle moment as June returns to the ruins of the Waterford house and starts chronicling her entire journey.

However, The Handmaid’s Tale TV show missed out on a significant event that almost everyone anticipated to occur by its finale, June and Hannah’s reunion. Many fans were left heartbroken after it did not happen. But as per Elizabeth Moss, June going full rebel for Hannah can be an exciting possibility for the upcoming show on The Testaments.

Why could The Handmaid’s Tale not feature the most-awaited reunion? Elizabeth Moss in The Handmaid’s Tale | Credits: Hulu

The Handmaid’s Tale, based on Margaret Atwood’s bestselling novel by the same name, features a dystopian future where fertile...

The creator of Hulu's The Handmaid's Taleopens up about why the series finale was so much less explosive than the episodes leading up to it.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, The Handmaid's Tale creator Bruce Miller was asked about the drastic shift to a more subdued finale from the overtly tense tone established in the two episodes preceding it. "I was trying to think of it in the context of being the last episode of a series, not the finale, but the last episode of a series," Miller explained. "And really capping the series in a way that was totally correct for your experience."

"I think in a lot of ways it was mostly a contemplative experience of trauma, not a bombastic one," Miller continued. "So looking back on the show, I would say probably the most memorable moments for me are June sitting, still thinking about something — oftentimes that...

One of The Handmaid’s Tale's most significant characters made an unexpected return in the intense series finale, and fans still can’t get over it. The final episode of the Hulu series began streaming on Tuesday, May 27, and in it Alexis Bledel reprised her role as Emily, years after taking her leave. Bledel’s character is heard saying, “Blessed be the fruit,” shocking June (Elisabeth Moss) as she looks into a window marked with the words “Freedom” in the final episode.

Bledel spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about her return, which was an idea from series creator Bruce Miller, who wrote the final episode, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which was directed by Moss. The Gilmore Girls alum praised the team involved in the entirety of The Handmaid’s Tale while also admitting that she didn’t hesitate when offered the cameo role, as it felt right for Emily. She said:

“It was an immediate yes.

After eight years and six seasons, Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale came to an epic conclusion today after 66 episodes. While not everything was tied up into a neat little bow, it managed to deliver a worthy finale that leaves enough room for fans to look forward to the sequel series, The Testaments, that's to come later. Reactions have been swift online, with many praising the show for its commitment to quality, though as the saying goes, you can't please everyone.

"The final season of The Handmaid's Tale is some of the finest television I've ever seen,” said X user @WendyClapp1. Meanwhile, @lifeinpolaroid had a message for the haters out there, adding:

"People being mad about the ending of The Handmaid's Tale series while also claiming to be big fans of the book & sequel have me questioning if they've even read the books."

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[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale series finale.] The Handmaid’s Tale came to an end after six seasons on Tuesday, May 27. While June (Elisabeth Moss) and Luke (O-t Fagbenle) were tragically not reunited with their kidnapped daughter, Hannah (Jordana Blake), Hannah’s story isn’t over yet. She will be a main character in the upcoming spinoff, The Testaments, which is currently in production in Toronto. And we know that Hannah, who was renamed Agnes by her Gilead parents, will still be living in Gilead in the spinoff. With June and Luke still alive and fighting for Mayday and fighting to find Hannah in The Handmaid’s Tale series finale’s end, the door is open for them to appear in the spinoff centering their daughter. Hannah was seen in The Handmaid’s Tale series finale, but only in flashbacks and in a vision June had of her daughter in the episode’s...

Warning: Major Spoilers ahead for The Handmaid's Tale season 6, episode 10!The Handmaid's Tale showrunners Yahlin Chang and Eric Tuchman explain the one June reunion that couldn't happen in the series finale and why the storyline wasn't fully resolved. At the end of The Handmaid's Tale season 6, Boston is liberated from Gilead's rule thanks to June (Elisabeth Moss) and other Handmaids killing the city's Commanders. In the finale's last scene, she returns to the burned-down Waterford house to record her story. However, the show doesn't reunite her with her daughter, Hannah (Jordana Blake), her fight to save her daughter from Gilead still ongoing when the show concludes.

Speaking with the Los Angeles Times, Chang and Tuchman explained that The Handmaid's Tale couldn't reunite June with Hannah because of The Testaments. They explained how Hannah's important role in the sequel series prevented the reunion, something they struggled with because of how much...