The show picks up after the end of the book, following Offred/June as she struggles to stay alive in Gilead the third season ends with her being shot, perhaps fatally. In the Entertainment Weekly review of The Testaments, they remind readers that no, The Testaments is not connected to the world of the TV version of Handmaid’s Tale. ** Mild spoilers for The Testaments to follow, as well as major spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale ** Based on what we know, this book would seem to go against what we know about the established world of the TV series. I have yet to read The Testaments, though I will definitely be grabbing a copy when it is released next week, but based on reviews I’ve seen I’m already wondering if this is a potentially weird decision on Hulu’s part.
The Testaments picks up fifteen years after the original Handmaid’s Tale novel.” io9 is reporting that MGM and Hulu “are currently in discussions with Handmaid’s showrunner Bruce Miller about how the upcoming novel can become an important extension to the immensely popular award-winning series The Handmaids Tale. Margaret Atwood is going back to Gilead with The Testaments, her sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, and already Hulu has optioned the project and is developing it for TV.
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