The Testaments Season 2 Given the Green Light

Disney announced today that the hit Hulu Original drama series The Testaments, the next chapter of the Emmy award-winning series The Handmaid’s Tale, has been renewed for a second season. Season one is now streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers in the U.S. and on Disney+ internationally.

With the season finale debuting on Wednesday, May 27, The Testaments is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and has garnered over 45 million hours streamed globally on Hulu and Disney+ to date. The series has been gaining momentum, with viewership growing week over week.

An evolution of The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments is a dramatic coming-of-age story set in Gilead. The series follows young teens Agnes, dutiful and pious, and Daisy, a new arrival and convert from beyond Gilead’s borders.

As they navigate the gilded halls of Aunt Lydia’s elite preparatory school for future wives, a place where obedience is brutally instilled and always justified by divine authority, their bond becomes the catalyst that will upend their past, present, and future.

The series is based on Margaret Atwood’s Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name and is created by showrunner and executive producer Bruce Miller and executive 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 the finale.

The Testaments is produced by MGM Television and 20th Television.

Season one stars Ann Dowd, Chase Infiniti, Lucy Halliday, 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 in a surprise guest appearance, reprising her role as June Osborn.