When Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s seminal dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale premiered just after Donald Trump’s first inauguration, it met the political moment in a way no one could have anticipated.
In 2017, there was a collective sense of disbelief among those who opposed the new president. The Handmaid’s Tale reflected that, showing us what could happen—totalitarianism, civil war, concentration camps—if we didn’t fight back. It proved prophetic, with the final season last year premiering just as Trump was taking office for the second time and enacting an agenda that felt more and more like the fictional Gilead.
While The Handmaid’s Tale may have wrapped up its story, a sequel series has already arrived. The Testaments, based on Atwood’s 2019 novel of the same name, picks up where The Handmaid’s Tale left off and once again feels eerily relevant to the state of American politics.
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