The Handmaid’s Tale is finally coming back to our screens after over two years.
The beloved dystopian drama may be one of TV’s most challenging and confronting offerings, but it’s also one of its most rewarding. Based on the iconic novel by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale sets the scene in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, now a totalitarian state where fertile women are forced to be Handmaids who bear children for wealthy families.
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Ever since the first series premiered in 2017, we’ve been hooked on the story of June, who is given the name Offred when she is made Handmaid to Commander Fred Waterford and his wife Serena Joy. We’ve followed June’s horrifying journey for five seasons — when we left her, she was embarking on a search for her daughter, Hannah as Gilead threatened to expand beyond the borders of Canada.
Here’s everything we know about the upcoming sixth season of The Handmaid’s Tale.
What happened in The Handmaid’s Tale season 5?
A lot has happened in five seasons of The Handmaid’s Tale. At the beginning of the series, June was separated from her husband, Luke, and daughter Hannah and forced to live as a Handmaid for a powerful Gilead couple, Fred and Serena. Over the years, June has fought back against the oppressive regime. At the end of season 4, June enacted her revenge, killing Fred in the woods with a group of other Handmaids, leaving Serena in a Canadian prison.
In season 5, June finds herself at odds with some of the Handmaids who have followed her in the resistance movement — they want revenge, too, but June is more interested in getting her daughter out of Gilead. Meanwhile, Serena seems to step into Fred’s shoes as the show’s most ominous figure.
