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Elisabeth Moss confirms June Osborne was always going to appear in The Testaments, explaining that creator Bruce Miller and Atwood’s sequel solidified her arc from The Handmaid’s Tale. Moss notes the storyline links June to Hannah and Daisy’s infiltration of Gilead, with June mentoring Daisy as the rebellion gains momentum, and expresses interest in continuing to play the character in future seasons.
In The Testaments’ finale, Agnes comforts Becka with a kiss, leaving their feelings open to interpretation as Becka marries Garth, a rebel with Mayday ties; Agnes then sacrifices to protect Becka by revealing Becka’s father’s crimes, clearing the path for her marriage. The moment underscores a complicated, evolving bond between the two friends, while Agnes returns to Aunt Lydia’s school to face a future far from her original plans.
In the The Testaments Season 1 finale, June learns Agnes is her daughter Hannah, but pulling her back is fraught: Agnes is a teenager with a life in Colorado and has been conditioned by Gilead, making a direct reunion or extraction emotionally and practically complicated.
After The Testaments finale, Elisabeth Moss and Bruce Miller outline Season 2 plans: Agnes discovers her mother is Mayday leader June Osborne, heightening the stakes as Daisy’s true parents and Nichole’s potential sister storyline remain in play; Becka’s Mayday marriage is explored, while the writers stress a deliberate production pace to craft a strong follow-up and leave open the reveal of Daisy’s parents (and possible Nichole connections), with a Margaret Atwood cameo noted.
Bruce Miller teases a long-awaited reunion between June and Hannah/Agnes by the end of The Testaments and outlines a multi-season plan to expand beyond Gilead, including Becca and Rita’s stories and Elisabeth Moss’s schedule shaping season two, as Agnes Awakens and the resistance grows.
Elisabeth Moss says June was always going to appear in The Testaments, with the Handmaid's Tale finale dovetailing into the Hulu sequel. She discusses how the season-one ending sets up June’s ongoing fight against Gilead, the Agnes/Hannah awakening, and the Daisy–Aunt Lydia dynamic, while the writers plan Season 2’s arc and growth. Moss also notes potential directing involvement and expresses hope for a long run as The Testaments streams on Hulu.
In the Secateurs finale, Agnes learns June Osborne is her mother as Becka’s fate hangs in the balance and Mrs. Grove confesses, leading to Garth’s rise and Becka’s marriage. Daisy escapes with a plan to cultivate a small, rebellious group (with Shu and Agnes) and ignite a larger insurrection from within and beyond Gilead. The episode ends with Agnes fully embracing her identity as June’s daughter, hinting at a future Hannah Army that could challenge Gilead.
Hulu has renewed The Testaments, the Handmaid’s Tale sequel, for a second season, extending the story of Agnes and Daisy at Aunt Lydia’s elite Gilead school. Season 1 has posted strong global viewership and is nearing its finale, with Elisabeth Moss making a surprise guest appearance.
Dowd and Li unpack The Testaments’ Aunt Lydia flashback: Lydia offers herself to a future Gilead commander to prove loyalty, shoots a colleague in a test that reveals the brutality of the regime, and reveals Lydia’s abortion secret from Atwood’s sequel; her journals hint at a long-running plan to become Aunt No. 1 and to ally with June/Mayday against Gilead, reshaping our understanding of Lydia’s survival strategy and the show’s evolving power dynamics.
The Testaments' episode Stadium uses Lydia’s perspective to trace her origins and rise, showing how she helped launch the Aunt Lydia school, endures Judd’s brutal tests, and reveals a calculating pragmatism driven by survival—while she vows to document the crimes she witnesses, highlighting shifting loyalties, power dynamics, and a wary glimpse of her ultimate loyalties to the girls she once protected.
Deadline reports exclusive Disney data showing The Testaments’ Episode 4 drew about 20% more viewers than the premiere on Hulu and Disney+, with the series tallying over 11 million hours streamed globally after eight days. Because the data reflects only Episode 4’s first day, precise average views aren’t known, though it debuted in Hulu’s daily Top 15 and remains a top title for Disney’s streaming lineup. By comparison, The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 finale logged 4.4 million U.S. views in its first seven days (up 22% from the premiere). The show, based on Margaret Atwood’s novel and a sequel to Handmaid’s Tale, follows Agnes and Daisy as they navigate Gilead, with Bruce Miller as showrunner and MGM/20th Television producing.
Hulu’s The Testaments reimagines Daisy as a new Gilead insider and Mayday spy with a Toronto upbringing, while book Daisy is June’s daughter Nichole (aka Holly)—a character not in the TV series due to the show’s shorter timeline. Showrunner Bruce Miller says the changes fit the four-year TV gap, with Daisy’s spy reveal in episode 1 and deeper backstory in episode 3.
The Hollywood Reporter details how The Testaments, Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale sequel, aims to stand on its own by not reusing the familiar red cloak in season 1 and by weaving a fresh path through June’s world with new leads Daisy (Lucy Halliday) and Hannah/Agnes, while Moss returns in a supporting role. Creators Bruce Miller and Warren Littlefield explain a long-term plan—at least three seasons—built around a youth-centered awakening and evolving alliances, with Margaret Atwood’s involvement granting flexibility and depth as they expand the universe beyond Handmaid’s Tale’s direct continuity.
THR previews The Testaments as a Hulu/MGM TV adaptation, with Bruce Miller reshaping Margaret Atwood’s sequel to fit a fresh TV timeline. The first season follows Daisy (Lucy Halliday), a Toronto teen entering Gilead as a Pearl Girl, and Agnes (Chase Infiniti), Hannah’s Gilead name, as they navigate Aunt Lydia’s elite academy and the regime’s oppression while June (Elisabeth Moss) quietly returns. With a ten-episode arc featuring a new generation (Becka, Shunammite, and others) the show expands the Handmaid’s Tale universe and arrives amid timely conversations about women’s autonomy.
Hulu’s The Testaments ends its first episode with a major reveal: Daisy, the new student and covert Mayday operative, isn’t fully loyal to Gilead and has a backstory tied to June’s resistance. In episode 3, Daisy is shown to have grown up in Toronto after her parents were killed, but June explains she was actually born in Gilead and smuggled to Canada. This marks a key book-to-TV divergence: in Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments novel, Daisy is Nichole (aka Holly) and does not appear in the TV show. Series creator Bruce Miller says they aimed to follow the book’s arc while reworking Daisy’s age and role to fit the TV timeline, with the result that Holly remains safely growing up in Toronto for now.