As it’s (now) written, Hulu has renewed The Testaments for a second season.
The Testaments, which is a sequel to Hulu’s smash hit The Handmaid’s Story, is described as “a dramatic coming-of-age story set in Gilead,” per the synopsis. It “follows young teens Agnes (Chase Infiniti), dutiful and pious, and Daisy (Lucy Halliday), a new arrival and convert from beyond Gilead’s borders. As they navigate the gilded halls of Aunt Lydia’s (Ann Dowd) elite preparatory school for future wives, a place where obedience is instilled brutally and always with divine justification, their bond becomes the catalyst that will upend their past, their present and their future.”
Viewership for The Testaments, like its predecessor sequence, has been robust. Season one has handed 45 million hours streamed globally on Hulu and Disney+, the streamers say, and it’s not even completed — the season finale debuts subsequent Wednesday, Could 27. The Testaments has been rising its viewers week to week. The drama’s most-recent episode, quantity eight, drew 76 % extra viewers on day one than the sequence premiere.
The Testaments, produced by MGM Tv and twentieth Tv, is predicated on Margaret Atwood’s ebook of the similar identify. It was created for tv by showrunner and government producer Bruce Miller and government produced by Warren Littlefield, Elisabeth Moss, Steve Stark, Shana Stein, Maya Goldsmith, John Weber, Sheila Hockin, Daniel Wilson, Fran Sears and Mike Barker, who directed the first three episodes and finale.
Along with Dowd, Infiniti and Halliday, the sequence stars Mabel Li, Amy Seimetz, Brad Alexander, Rowan Blanchard, Mattea Conforti, Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Eva Foote, Isolde Ardies, Shechinah Mpumlwana, Birva Pandya and Kira Guloien. Elisabeth Moss returned to the franchise in a surprise Testaments season one guest appearance, reprising her Handmaid’s Story function of June Osborn.
The Handmaid’s Story gained 15 Primetime Emmy Awards on 76 whole nominations. In 2017, it turned the primary streaming present to win the Emmy for greatest drama sequence.
