The Handmaid’s Story is sort of again — and Hulu simply launched the primary official take a look at the sixth and closing season.
Stills from the upcoming season have been launched on Tuesday, November 12, and one confirmed June (Elisabeth Moss) smiling on the digital camera, which parallels the smirk she gave through the season 5 finale. The season got here to an finish with June and Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) operating into one another on the identical prepare of Gilead refugees headed to Vancouver earlier than attempting to settle in Hawaii.
“It’s really a fairly constructive ending for the present and the season, which we don’t often do. It’s a cliffhanger,” Moss, 42, advised The Hollywood Reporter in November 2022 of the finale. “However there’s one thing constructive about it. In fact, of all of the individuals that may be on the prepare is that this one who is her different half, the opposite half of this expertise.”
Disney additionally launched a sneak peek video teasing TV exhibits popping out in 2025. Footage from The Handmaid’s Story confirmed Serena, who stated, “One thing huge is about to occur.” In response, June famous that they need to “carry them house.”
The hit Hulu sequence, which premiered in 2017, is predicated on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the identical identify a couple of dystopian future. As a consequence of low fertility charges, girls have been assigned to males for bearing kids after a second American Civil Warfare.
Moss, Strahovski, Madeline Brewer, Ann Dowd, O-T Fagbenle, Max Minghella and Samira Wiley have starred on the present since its debut. Over time, the present additionally grew to become a important success when it grew to become the primary present produced by Hulu to win a serious award and the primary sequence on a streaming community to win an Emmy for Excellent Drama Collection.
Hulu has already confirmed that season 6, which is ready to be launched in 2025, is the present’s final. The universe is increasing, although, with an adaptation of Atwood’s 2019 novel The Testaments. It was beforehand introduced that Hulu and MGM have been creating the sequel sequence, however there hasn’t been any extra information but.
Earlier than season 6 began filming earlier this yr, The Handmaid’s Story confronted a shakeup when Bruce Miller stepped down as showrunner after being with the sequence because the starting. He stays a author and govt producer however handed on his duties to govt producers Eric Tuchman and Yahlin Chang.
“We’re ending our present on our personal artistic phrases,” he advised Leisure Weekly in 2022 earlier than his departure. “Do I do know what occurs in season 6? Sure, I did take into consideration the stuff that occurs in season 6 for some time.”
The Handmaid’s Story is presently streaming on Hulu.