‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Sequel Drastically Changes Genres
Lyvie Scott
created: March 5, 2026, 9:21 p.m. | updated: March 7, 2026, 8:53 p.m.
The Republic of Gilead, an ultra-religious regime determined to bring women back to their “rightful place,” was always depicted as a hellscape in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale.
Across six seasons, we watched Handmaids in their struggle to break free and fight from the outside — but its upcoming sequel series, The Testaments, will depict a similar fight from within Gilead’s cage.
The Testaments’ first trailer has a lot of fun playing with that tension, reintroducing a character that Handmaid’s Tale fans already know well.
Handmaid’s Tale never shied away from depicting Gilead’s tools of indoctrination, but there’s something about The Testaments that makes it all feel novel again.
The heroines of The Testaments are coming into their power just as their predecessors in The Handmaid’s Tale did — and with this YA setting, hopefully their fight against Gilead won’t be quite so bleak.
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