Overview
- Episode 7 brings back Amanda Brugel’s Rita in flashbacks, where she helps prepare teen recruit Daisy to pose as a Pearl Girl and gather intel for Mayday.
- Rita warns Daisy about Gilead’s methods and lays out ground rules for survival, framing the risks of acting as an embedded operative inside the regime.
- The series confirms a key change from Margaret Atwood’s novel by making Daisy not the daughter of June and Nick, a shift enabled by setting the show only about four years after The Handmaid’s Tale.
- The spinoff continues to weave in legacy ties, with Ann Dowd anchoring as Aunt Lydia and Elisabeth Moss having appeared earlier in a brief role that connects Daisy to Mayday.
- The Testaments streams weekly on Hulu in the U.S. and on Disney+ for international viewers, sustaining momentum built by midseason episodes that deepen the Mayday and Lydia storylines.