The Testaments, now streaming on Hulu, picks up in the Republic of Gilead four years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale’s 2025 finale in which titular handmaid June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) is liberated from the totalitarian theocracy that forced her into sexual servitude for infertile couples, but vows to keep fighting for those still left behind, including her teenage daughter, Hannah, now known as Agnes MacKenzie after being adopted by a prominent Gilead commander a decade earlier.
The Testaments TV show puts a YA spin on the young women’s sphere of this hyperpatriarchal society, following the wide-eyed Agnes (One Battle After Another’s Chase Infiniti) as she navigates high school, burgeoning hormones, and arranged marriages alongside her friends, which include recent Gilead transplant Daisy (Lucy Halliday), a vengeful Canadian teen with ties to June.
At its core, the speculative series is about “somebody on the inside deciding they’re going to take it down,” says Atwood. That somebody is Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd), who, as the final season of The Handmaid’s Tale revealed, has gone from hard-nosed enforcer for the government to secret operative for the resistance.
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