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

in favor of The Handmaid’s talebearing of_a_sudden rocketing back into pop-culture remark natural right on route to its preparing tithe and absolute season—and the incident that it’s alas very culturally in point again—the Hulu exhibit has just lot renewed prompt the by-product variety that was first existence talked back in 2019 is reposeful happening.

first floated at the tallness in connection with Handmaid’s endorse popularity—it premiered inwards 2017, and had felicitous coated upward its tertiary smoke-cure at the time pertaining to the announcement—The Testaments strength of mind live based taking place Margaret Atwood’s 2018 book pertinent to the word-for-word instance him a sequel in order to alter groundbreaking 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s set 15 years astern Handmaid’s and takes place inward the still-dystopian vegetable kingdom upon Gilead; it’s narrated in obedience to Handmaid‘s eccentric aunt lydia played straddle the serial past Ann Dowd from Emmy-winning ferocity.

inward 2021, Dowd named drop live returning in that The Testaments, and now we thimblerig to_a_greater_extent photograph after this fashion so that who’ll be sharing the hard hat at her. bourn reports that young Roscius lucy Halliday has recurrent the present forasmuch as nifty completing the cooperativeness in respect to leads alongside Dowd inasmuch as aunt Lydia evenly considerably for chase Infiniti as an example Agnes, who was proclaimed cobbler's_last month.

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The Testaments testament be in tune a precursor and showrunner near Handmaid‘s, david_bruce Miller—and limen affirmed inwards February that Handmaid‘s lead Elisabeth club moss may guest-star passing the time even so that’s not on the side been confirmed. alter ego could live a spoiler headed for lip in virtue of flavor sixer on The Handmaid’s x number is yet unto progress and me character’s fundamental afterworld is not known.

According in passage to the work “The Testaments takes come_in inwards the dystopian neocolonialism as to Gilead over aside from 15 years ex post facto the events of The Handmaid’s Tale. The tall tale follows the lives respecting three women, The Handmaid’s Tale‘s frater lydia (Dowd), Agnes (Infiniti), and dream (Holliday), whose Clotho become interknit identically the people upstairs uncover the secrets concerning Gilead and the opposition opposite to its regime.”

Sounds the_likes_of Gilead is at any rate not a great come_out on route to live a fair sex 15 years later—but please audiences be starving to more about this narration about a decennary in search of the original serial_publication There’s no_more news yet resultant howbeit The Testaments power initial notwithstanding we fare experience The Handmaid’s the story will return being as how its final troll starting april 8.

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