After taking the world by storm in 2017, Hulu’s award-winning TV series The Handmaid’s Tale is coming back for season two. The streaming service announced that the series will premiere on April 25th with two new episodes. After that, the new episodes of the show will be released each Wednesday. You can check out the brand new trailer for the series below.
Season two will have 13 episodes with a focus on Offred’s pregnancy and her ongoing fight to make a brighter future for her future child. Although there will be some slight departures from the source material, the creators promised that the following season will maintain the essence of Margaret Atwood’s story.
“I don’t think anything we do is post-Atwood,” said showrunner Bruce Miller. “I think we’re all living in a currently Atwood world. In the first season, we diverted quite a bit from the book in ways that people didn’t notice. That made me feel really good. In season 2, we saved a lot of things we couldn’t cover in season 1. We kept a nice long list. It’s an expansion of that world. We were noodling around in that world and just going further, not exiting that world at all.”
The star of the show, Elisabeth Moss, also talked about season two, saying it will be darker than the previous one.
“There’s a lot of good funny bits,” she said. “It is a dark season, though. I would say arguably it’s darker than season 1, if that’s possible.”
Based on the 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale premiered on Hulu on April 26, 2017, and received widespread critical acclaim. The series won numerous awards including eight Emmys and two Golden Globes.
