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'The Handmaid's Tale' Is Officially Coming Back For a Third Season


Praise be: The Handmaid’s Tale is returning for a third season.

Hulu broke this news at its Upfronts presentation in New York City on Wednesday (May 2). Not much information about the third chapter is known at this time. After all, season two just premiered last week—to a monster audience, according to The Hollywood Reporter—and much of that is still shrouded in secrecy. Because Margaret Atwood only wrote one Handmaid’s Tale book, what’s going to happen in season two is still a mystery—which makes season three’s plot even more of a question mark.

Regardless of what happens, though, this is exciting news. The Handmaid’s Tale is one of the most poignant shows on television right now. It features an A-list crop of actors—including Elisabeth Moss, Alexis Bledel, Ann Dowd, and, this season, Marisa Tomei—and narratives that particularly resonate in our current political climate. What The Handmaid’s Tale says about how our culture treats women is something everyone needs to see. It’s necessary viewing.

We’re only two episodes into The Handmaid’s Tale season two at this point. June/Offred (Moss) has—spoiler alert—escaped from Gilead and is hiding out in the abandoned Boston Globe office. She’s still expecting a baby with Nick, a former Gilead Eye, and their relationship’s been nothing short of passionate—both in good and bad ways. Meanwhile, Emily (Bledel) is imprisoned in the Colonies and serving as a makeshift doctor to the sick women there. Interspersed with these present-day narratives are iteresting flashbacks that offer more detail about how America became Gilead. The scene where a doctor questions June about her parenting “fitness” because she let her daughter go to school with a fever is very eerie to watch.

New episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale premiere every Wednesday on Hulu.

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The Handmaid's Tale: Max Minghella On Why You Should Still Trust Nick This Season


In The Handmaid’s Tale, the 32-year-old plays Nick, a government spy and brooding love interest to Offred (Elisabeth Moss). Season one ended with (spoiler alert!) Offred being carted off to an uncertain fate. As a big, black van is about to drive her away, Nick opens the door and whispers to her, “Just go with it. Trust me.” So why, exactly, do we root for this guy again?

GLAMOUR: Last season ended on an ambiguous note. Can we really trust Nick?

MAX MINGHELLA: Yeah. I mean, I trust Nick. I stand by him! I don’t want to give anything away, but all the characters in this show are capable of doing good and bad things, which is one of the reasons it’s so compelling to watch. I think, at the root of Nick, he’s a good person. Whether he always does the right thing is a different question.

GLAMOUR: By virtue of his gender, he’s guilty until proven innocent. Thoughts?

MM: I mean, I feel all men are guilty until proven innocent, in general. Maybe that has to do with the fact that women have been subjugated for so long, or that men can be gross in a way women rarely are. Having been a man for 32 years, I’ve always had a very cynical view of my gender. I’m relieved the rest of the world is now sharing it.

GLAMOUR: The show does such a good job of showing how complicated sex can be. For example, women can still get pleasure from sex during trying times. Has the show impacted your own views about sex?

MM: I’m a big advocate of sex, and I actually like exploring it a lot! I often find myself shooting sex scenes on the show. I don’t find them to be super straightforward. We always try and make them complicated and as dense as a heavy dialogue scene. You know, there’s no reason for them to be exploitative. One of the things I thought was so fascinating when I first read this show, almost two years ago now, was that the sex in the show was often quite perverse and disturbing and multilayered, and I thought that that was a new and exciting way to approach that subject.

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GLAMOUR: Nick is the strong silent type, which can be very appealing to many women. How are you in real life?

MM: I don’t think Nick and I are super far away from each other. I mean I do think again [our showrunner] Bruce is very clever about seeing who we are as individuals and finding ways to incorporate that into the characters, especially in season two. I think we all have um an essence, which is close to who we’re playing, which makes it a lot easier.

GLAMOUR: How has being someone who listens more and understands the power of silence served you in real life—in your dating life, in any other scenarios?

MM: I don’t know if it serves me at all. I think sometimes I wish I was much more charming than I am or better in a crowd. I often feel like I don’t know what to do in sort of a large group of people, so I think I’d like to be more fun. Nick and I could both use is a bit more lightness.

GLAMOUR: You’ve said that, growing up, you were concerned with being cool. Do you regret that?

MM: I never felt “present” in high school. I was always concerned with having as much fun as possible. And I definitely thought, That’s going to be easier to do if you’re hanging out with the right people. Like, the math club is probably going to less-good parties than the football team. I don’t think I was wrong. I had an amazing time.

GLAMOUR: What’s the biggest trouble you got yourself into back then?

MM: That’s a dangerous question! I think I did cause my parents endless anxiety. I started working when I was about 16. It’s very difficult to go back living under your parents’ roof when you’ve been living on your own, and that’s when I felt a lot of tension was, but I’m going to leave out specifics…

GLAMOUR: You’ve called yourself a pop-culture whore. Go on…

MM: It’s completely true. I’m obsessed with pop culture. I really am. I’m not, like, a great intellectual. I’m a Top 40 guy, I’m really into Riverdale. I love that it’s so clean and pop-y on the surface with something so sinister underneath.

GLAMOUR: We have to ask—your best friend, Jamie Bell, married your ex-girlfriend Kate Mara. How does that work?

MM: Nobody’s ever asked me about that. I will tell you this: It’s a beautiful part of my life. I see them every single morning, and Jamie’s son is my godson. I can understand why the optics might be very confusing, but it’s not a complicated thing for us.

The Handmaid’s Tale returns to Hulu on April 25th



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The First Trailer for 'The Handmaid's Tale' Season 2 Is Downright Haunting


Ever since The Handmaid’s Tale was renewed for a second season, we’ve been keeping our (very sharp) eyes out for more details. After all, we don’t precisely know what’s coming next: Although the series is based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, there were so many twists and turns in the first season—not to mention tweaks and outright deviations from the plot—that the second season is a mystery. Wherever things are going, though, we’re definitely on board.

We do have some clues about what’s to come: According to a press release from Hulu, the second season will center on Offred’s pregnancy as she fights to save her future child from “the horrors” of Gilead. And earlier this week, the first photos were revealed…including a glimpse of what a handmaid’s funeral looks like. The biggest clue yet, though, came today when Hulu dropped the season’s first full trailer.

Set to a very haunting version of Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth,” the trailer proves this season will just as necessary viewing. Watch, below:

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The second season feels more timely than ever, given the power dynamics and sexual politics of Gilead, the dystopian, post-U.S. world The Handmaid’s Tale is set in: The first season debuted four months after President Donald Trump—an alleged sexual assaulter in a position of governmental power—was elected; the new season will come on the heels of the #MeToo movement, a campaign that’s chronicled tens of thousands of women’s stories about sexual assault and coercion at the hands of powerful men.

Gildead, however fictional it might be, sometimes doesn’t seem so far away—apt, considering that Atwood drew upon real events past and present to spin her chilling narrative. Watching the series feels at once spell-binding, horrifying, and voyeuristic, as if we’re glimpsing our own worst-case scenario play out in front of us. Even still, it’s also utterly compelling and unmissable. Count us in for round two.

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'The Handmaid's Tale' Season Two Looks Straight-Up Horrifying


When Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale first premiered, in the shadow of Donald Trump’s election, the show felt unsettlingly prescient. For many it felt like a well-timed answer to an administration determined to police women’s bodies. But now, as the Time’s Up reckoning sweeps every industry and all corners of the world, The Handmaid’s Tale is no longer just a prestige television series; it’s absolutely necessary and important viewing, for everyone. If we don’t want our future to look like the Republic of Gilead—and I promise you, we do not—we must create change now.

The first look at season two, which premieres in April, might inspire you. Hulu just released three photos that offer a glimpse of what’s to come, and it’s…well, it’s scary. First up is this bloody nightmare vision of Offred, played by Elisabeth Moss.

PHOTO: Take Five

The next two photos are less gory, but just as impactful:

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Although these photos don’t give much away, Hulu said in a press release that season two will be shaped by Offred’s pregnancy and “her ongoing fight to free her future child from the dystopian horrors of Gilead.” So, status quo. Beyond that, we don’t know too much—season one was adapted from Margaret Atwood’s novel, but season two will enter new territory. (Atwood, however, will serve as a consulting producer to give input on the story.)

There is one clue, though: Showrunner Bruce Miller told Entertainment Weekly that the series will at some point show a handmaid’s funeral, which you can see in the photo directly above. “Everything from the design of their costumes to the way they look is so chilling,” he says of the moment. “These scenes that are so beautiful, while set in such a terrible place, provide the kind of contrast that makes me happy.”

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A 'The Handmaid's Tale' Season Two First Look Is Here


The Handmaid’s Tale season 2 is officially underway, and now we know when to expect the return of Offred, Moira, and the other citizens and defectors of Gilead. On Tuesday, Hulu announced its Emmy-winning drama will be coming back in April 2018 with a short but spooky teaser. The video, which Hulu released via the show’s official Twitter, is captioned “No turning back.” It shows a Handmaid running down a dark corridor while a menacing soundtrack plays in the background. If you get goosebumps while watching it, you’re not alone.

The teaser’s pretty short on other details for season 2, which is currently under production. Still, if the “No turning back” tagline is a clue, the next installment could mean Offred’s escape mission from Gilead was successful. (If you don’t want spoilers, turn back now.) The finale ended on a nail-biting cliffhanger, with June/Offred (Elizabeth Moss) getting picked up by Nick (Max Minghella) in a black van. Although the van belongs to the Eyes, Gilead’s secret police, Nick whispers to her to trust him. Whether Nick is really just a spy for Gilead, or a double agent for the resistance movement, was left intentionally ambiguous. If you’ve read Margaret Atwood’s novel, you’ll know that the story ends there. (The epilogue, however, suggests that Nick was, in fact, part of the resistance.)

Watch the teaser, below:

This means that while the novel’s fans were at a distinct advantage during season one, we’ll all start on equal footing as season 2 delves into uncharted territory. But we do have one tiny clue, thanks to Moss, that will probably just make you even more confused than before.

“I have been saying, about the opening [scene] of season 2, that whatever you think it’s going to be—just throw it out,” she said on Watch What Happens Now Live with Andy Cohen, according to Refinery29. It’s gone in a completely different way that I never would have expected.” So I guess if you thought Offred was screwed, you should assume the complete opposite happened, or vice versa.

Besides that, IMDB says season 2 of The Handmaid’s Tale will have 13 episodes, with members of the main cast returning for all or most of them. If you take that literally, that means Serena Joy, Commander Fred, Nick, Ofglen, Moira, and other major characters will play significant roles in Offred’s season 2 journey. But there’s lots of other possibilities for why they’ll return, like flashbacks or parallel stories. Guess we’ll have to wait until next April to find out. In the meantime, you could stream every episode of another critically acclaimed Atwood adaptation, Netflix’s historical murder-mystery psychological thriller Alias Grace.

Blessed be the binge.

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