‘The Testaments’ on Hulu: What We Know So Far About ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Sequel Adaptation

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The Hulu adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale might be over, but the streamer doesn’t plan to loosen its grip on the famed Margaret Atwood saga. Next up will be The Testaments , an adaptation of Atwood’s Handmaid’s sequel, which was published in 2019—more than three decades after its predecessor.

The Testaments takes place more than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale (in the books; the show’s timeline is different) and will pick back up inside the Republic of Gilead, a dystopian theocracy built on what former Handmaid’s Tale showrunner Bruce Miller called “a perversion, misreading of Old Testament laws and codes.” The story follows three women—A