Apr 7, 2026 1:00pm PT

‘The Testaments’ Is a Stunning Follow-Up to Hulu’s Dystopian ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: TV Review

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Set four years after the finale of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Hulu’s “The Testaments” returns viewers to Gilead. In “The Handmaid’s Tale,” June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) was forced into Gilead as a Handmaid, a fertile woman subjected to ritualized rape at the hands of the elite so that she could bear their children. The new series, created by Bruce Miller and adapted from Margaret Atwood’s novel of the same name, depicts Gilead from a different vantage. It centers on the young women who have grown up among the privileged class and are being groomed to become the pious wives of the totalitarian regime’s most powerful men. A series about girlhood, survival, rage and friendship, “The Testaments” is an exemplary follow-up to the original series. It is also a magnificent coming-of-age story that draws terrifying parallels to the modern-day experiences of women living in a misogynistic society emboldened by religious psychosis.