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The Testaments Premieres on Hulu With a New Generation's View of Gilead

Episode 1 centers on girls groomed at Aunt Lydia's school to show how indoctrination works.

Overview

  • Hulu premiered The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, with a teen-centered first episode narrated by Agnes MacKenzie.
  • The plot confirms Gilead still holds power four years after the War of Massachusetts.
  • Aunt Lydia, played by Ann Dowd, runs a wife-training school that grooms commanders' daughters for obedience and marriage.
  • Her Pearl Girls program recruits converts from outside Gilead, and Agnes is told to guide a newcomer named Daisy from Toronto.
  • The premiere underscores the regime's cruelty with a shocking school punishment and features in-universe Radio Free Boston with Stephen Colbert's voice.