The Testaments, the highly-anticipated spin-off of The Handmaid's Tale, has released a first trailer ahead of its release in April. Starring One Battle After Another's Chase Infiniti, the series is based on the coming-of-age novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood.
Nearly one year after we bid farewell to June as The Handmaid's Tale aired its series finale, we're going back to the dystopian Gilead for another show.
With Ann Dowd returning as Aunt Lydia, The Testaments takes place 15 years after the events of the original series. Infiniti stars as June's lost daughter, Agnes, a girl living a shielded, gilded existence in Gilead.
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Thanks to a friendship with new arrival Daisy (Lucy Halliday), a Canadian student who harbours a secret, Agnes wakes up to the repressive inner workings of the society she lives in, and decides to start a rebellion.
Coming to Hulu and Disney+ on 8 April, The Testaments has released a trailer seeing Agnes gradually realising the constraints women have to endure in Gilead, whose hierarchical structure is allegorised through the teen's dollhouse.
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"It looked just like our real house," she says in the clip. "Some dolls were always busy," Agnes continues as the clip shows the Marthas, Gilead's army of house servants.
"Others were always doing the important work," she adds as the trailer shows a group of men in suits.
"And there is a little girl doll. That's me."
As glimpses of Agnes's seemingly idyllic school life with her friends play on, the trailer abruptly cuts to the girls observing a group of people hanged in the square. "I guess it's easier to accept this story than believe to the people around you are monsters," Agnes says.
Dowd introduces new student Daisy to Agnes, hoping for the two of them to become friends. The clip then flashes back to Daisy's past life in Canada, where she skateboarded free, and hints at a secret she's guarding.
"It was time for us to change things," Agnes says at the end of the trailer, as she, Daisy and Shunammite (Rowan Blanchard) walk down the school's hall with a mission on their minds.
Rounding out the cast are Mattea Conforti as Becka, Eva Foote as Aunt Estee, Kira Guloien as Rosa, Amy Seimetz as Paula, Brad Alexander as Garth, Birva Pandya as Miriam, and Zarrin Darnell-Martin as Aunt Gabbana.
The Handmaid's Tale creator Bruce Miller is back on showrunning duties, also serving as executive producer alongside OG star Elisabeth Moss.
Branded as a "defiant coming of age story", The Testaments adapts Atwood's 2019 novel, in turns hailed as a "modern masterpiece" and winner of the Booker Prize jointly with Bernardine Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other.
The Testaments releases on Disney+ and Hulu on 8 April.
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