Hulu renewed The Testaments one week before its Season 1 finale came out. According to Hulu, The Handmaid’s Tale spinoff’s audience grown weekly since its April 8 premiere. With Season 1 now complete, we’re looking ahead to The Testaments Season 2. What do the events of the Season 1 finale mean for Agnes (Chase Infiniti), Daisy (Lucy Halliday), Becka (Mattea Conforti), and more?
Here’s what we know about the future of The Handmaid’s Tale spinoff. Warning: The Testaments spoilers ahead!
Is The Testaments renewed for Season 2?
Yes, The Testaments Season 2 is official. Hulu says that the series has garnered over 45 million hours streamed globally on Hulu and Disney+ to date, and that it has been gaining momentum, with viewership growing week over week. Views for Episode 8 (released on May 13), were up 76% from the premiere (based on one-day views). The Testaments is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes at 88% and has held a top spot on the Hulu Top 15 Today list since premiere.
When does The Testaments Season 2 premiere?
A premiere date for The Testaments Season 2 will be announced at a later time, but it won’t come out before 2027, given the time needed for pre-production and filming.
What is The Testaments about?
Set about four years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale series finale, The Testaments is a coming-of-age story that finds a new generation of young women in Gilead grappling with the bleak future that awaits them. For these young women, growing up in Gilead is all they have ever known, having no tangible memories of the outside world before their indoctrination into this life. Facing the prospect of being married off and living a life of servitude, they will be forced to search for allies, both new and old, to help in their fight for freedom and the life they deserve.
The series focuses on Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) and students at the Gilead school for girls named after her, namely Agnes MacKenzie (Infiniti), Pearl Girl Daisy (Halliday), and their friends. Agnes is Hannah, June (Elisabeth Moss) and Luke’s (O-T Fagbenle) daughter, who was kidnapped by Gilead in The Handmaid’s Tale. Agnes has no memories of her life before Gilead, and certain unsettling events this season have made her question everything she knows about the society that raised her.
Episode 3 flashed back to Daisy’s life in Toronto before Gilead, revealing that her parents were murdered by Gilead, prompting her to meet June and join Mayday. Daisy is undercover in Gilead, and Garth (Brad Alexander) is her handler. Garth is the guardian Agnes is in love with, and she has no idea that the Gilead native is secretly working for the resistance.
Episode 6 revealed how Lydia became Aunt Lydia, the architect of the aunt social class. The backstory revealed that Lydia and Aunt Vidala (Mabel Li) knew each other as colleagues before Gilead and that Lydia had to prove her loyalty to the regime by killing Vidala, known then as Vivian. What neither of them knew was that there were no bullets in the gun. This created a chasm between the women that’s been festering every day as they work together at the Aunt Lydia School.
Here, find a deep dive into the Lydia-Vivian backstory and what it means for their characters in the present day. And check out our Testaments Season 1 finale breakdowns with Infiniti, Halliday, and Conforti.
Who is in The Testaments cast?
In addition to the actors above, The Testaments stars Amy Seimetz, Rowan Blanchard, Mattea Conforti, Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Eva Foote, Isolde Ardies, Shechinah Mpumlwana, Birva Pandya, Kira Guloien, Charlie Carrick, and Nate Corddry.
How does The Testaments Season 1 end?
Becka’s friends and the aunts scrambled to save her life after she killed her father for sexually assaulting her friends in Episode 9. In the Episode 10 finale, Aunts Lydia and Vidala (Li) revealed that the solution was for Becka’s mother to take the fall. Her mom chose to make the sacrifice to save her daughter’s life, and she was executed for it. Her execution was intercut with scenes from Becka’s wedding to Garth (Alexander), who is now a commander. He’s been working with Daisy all season as a secret Mayday operative, and Garth also knows of Agnes’s feelings for him. Becka confessed her love for Agnes in Episode 5 and then kissed her before her wedding in Episode 10. It was a first kiss and a kiss goodbye all in one.
“For Becka, we originally discussed how Becka would initiate going first for the kiss, and then Agnes would understand where she’s coming from and meet her halfway as an act of, ‘I support you, I’m here for you, I accept you, and I love you,’” Conforti told TV Insider. “But once that kiss happens, Becka is the first to pull away as an act of saying, ‘Thank you for being my friend.’ The kiss is more so a way of concluding their friendship and what they have had together in their relationship.”
Becka is now married to Garth, who she doesn’t know yet is in Mayday. Conforti thinks that Becka got the best marriage she could have hoped for in Gilead, given her sexuality and her simmering sense of rebellion. Saving Becka resulted Agnes losing the boy she loves as a marriage prospect and the end of her engagement to a high-rank commander. Agnes is now back at school with Daisy and Shu (Blanchard), but now she knows that June Osborne (Moss) is her biological mother. Halliday told us that scene where Daisy tells Agnes about June was one of the hardest to film all season.
The opening scene of The Testaments said that Agnes and her friends were destined to change history. Based on this and The Testaments book plot, another Mayday rebellion could be in store in The Testaments Season 2. Hopefully, the series leads to June and Luke being reunited with their daughter.
The Testaments, Season 2 Premiere, TBA, Hulu
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