The Handmaid’s Tale spinoff The Testaments is staging another revolution in Gilead — and the official trailer reveals June’s daughter is taking the lead.
Hulu released the first look on Thursday, March 5, where Chase Infiniti appears as Agnes, who was previously known as Hannah.
“I’m not really sure what year it was. I know I still had my dollhouse. It looked just like our real house,” Agnes says in a voiceover as “Dreams” by The Cranberries plays in the background. “Some dolls, we were always busy. Others were always doing the important work. There is a little girl doll. That’s me.”
The sneak peek hints that the scenes are from the past, with Agnes adding, “Back then, we still believed in this world. I guess it’s easier to accept the story than believe that the people around you are monsters.”
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Agnes’ trajectory in Gilead shifts once Daisy (Lucy Halliday) joins their school, which is run by Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd).
“I imagine Canada is very different from here. Which makes me wonder, what did you come here for?” Agnes asks Daisy, who appears to have secret intentions.
Aunt Lydia, meanwhile, is seemingly still focused on bringing “women back to their rightful place,” but not everyone believes the Gilead mission as a revolution begins.
“There comes a time when you have to take action. But you have to choose your own destiny,” Agnes teases. “We had no idea what we were capable of. It was time for us to change things.”
Based on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the same name, Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale took place in a dystopian future where low fertility rates led women to be assigned to men for bearing children. The series aired from 2017 to 2025.
The Testaments, which premieres April 8, is set 15 years later in the book (and three to four years later in the show). Dowd’s Aunt Lydia serves as the narrator as viewers are thrust back into the dystopian future. Agnes and Daisy pose as “Pearl Girls” to infiltrate Canada in an attempt to smuggle incriminating information about Gilead’s regime, while Aunt Lydia acts as a covert source within Gilead.
In addition to Infiniti, Halliday and Dowd, The Testaments stars Eva Foote, Rowan Blanchard, Kira Guloien, Amy Seimetz and Brad Alexander. Birva Pandya, Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Mattea Conforti, Shechinah Mpumlwana, Mabel Li and Isolde Ardies make up the rest of the cast.
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Creator Bruce Miller previously opened up about how closely the series would follow Atwood’s book The Testaments, hinting that ”it’s not going to track precisely” to the novel.
“Margaret writes these absolutely deliciously specific characters,” he told TVLine in 2022. “We had to go away from that in Handmaid’s, and we’re going to have to go away from that in Testaments. Testaments is certainly going to be a sequel to the show.”
More recently, The Handmaid’s Tale showrunner Yahlin Chang teased how the spinoff would be set up, telling TV Insider in March 2025 that the sixth season of The Handmaid’s Tale wrapped up certain plot points “in some very satisfying ways.”
“Any fans that are left wanting more are going to get more in The Testaments, which will be great for them,” Chang continued. “But it does conclude in some very satisfying ways many of the story lines, but not every single one.”
The Testaments premieres on Hulu April 8.
