SPOILER ALERT! This submit accommodates particulars from Margaret Atwood’s novel The Testaments, which can allude to sure plot factors within the closing season of The Handmaid‘s Story.
The top of Hulu‘s The Handmaid’s Story is nigh, however the story of Gilead will proceed within the upcoming sequel collection The Testaments, which creator Bruce Miller tells Deadline is within the casting section and can give a really completely different perspective on the oppressive nation.
Based mostly on the novel by Margaret Atwood, The Testaments will happen a number of years after the occasions of the ultimate season of The Handmaid’s Story. The story follows the lives of three girls, Aunt Lydia (Anne Dowd), Agnes and Daisy, whose fates change into intertwined as they uncover the secrets and techniques of Gilead and the resistance towards its regime.
“It’s about rising up Gilead. It appears like precisely the alternative world. These are…essentially the most treasured women in Gilead,” Miller teased. “And but you begin to notice they’re strolling a plank as properly, identical to the Handmaids. Hannah has to take care of the June inside her [and] abruptly she begins to really feel mighty, mighty, mighty rebellious.”
Avid Handmaid’s Story viewers will know that Agnes is Gilead’s given identify for June and Luke’s daughter Hannah, who as of Season 6 is coaching to change into a Spouse. There are nonetheless some key story beats that have to play out to be able to get these characters from the place they at present stand within the authentic collection to the place they’ll be after we choose up with them in The Testaments.
Ann Dowd’s Aunt Lydia, for instance, continues to be making an attempt to play by the foundations whereas concurrently defending her Handmaids from the horrors that she’s change into an increasing number of delicate to over the previous few seasons. However, in The Testaments, she’ll be an instrumental a part of the riot.
“It is rather completely different for her this season, as a result of she has she’s making an attempt to develop her energy. She’s making an attempt to work her energy elsewhere, locations that aren’t simply with the Handmaids, however the wider world,” Miller says of the character’s Season 6 arc. “Lydia is making an attempt to do a really tough job properly, and I feel she realizes over time that these women are beneficial on their very own and is making an attempt to form of determine a strategy to do her job that she’s stated ‘I’m going to do,’ and likewise acknowledge the humanity of those women that she will’t fairly ignore.”
Pivotal to her growth this season will likely be her battle for management, at the same time as it’s seemingly slipping additional away from her.
“I feel that her stage of management is form of getting sapped by herself. She’s undercutting herself and saying, ‘I need to management these girls, however I can’t, as a result of I really feel like that’s fallacious,’ and he or she’s a really proper and fallacious particular person,” Miller explains. “However I feel that what she does, what this season brings her to, is the concept that — what occurs to somebody who enjoys management after they notice they don’t have anything? They don’t simply fold below. What occurs as we transfer ahead and as we transfer into The Testaments is she tries to get extra management.”
He continued: “What turns into somebody like Lydia, who has not simply want to be in management, however confidence and precise competence in being in management? What occurs to somebody like that? Nicely, they don’t simply sit by the wayside. They really, when you inform them no and beat them up, they take your nation.”
The primary three episodes of The Handmaid’s Story Season 6 are actually streaming on Hulu.
