The Handmaid's Tale Season 6 Trailer Will Make You Feel The Rage
June's war with Gilead begins its final battle this April.
Since The Handmaid’s Tale began, June has endured being a handmaid for the horrible Commander Waterford and Serena Joy, joined the resistance against Gilead, and finally made her way to the relative safety of Canada. Although, as fans saw in Season 5, Gilead still haunts June and the others who escaped — ironically, one of her biggest struggles to date has been trying to figure out how to leave Gilead in the past. But in Season 6, she and the show will face their biggest challenge yet: bringing June’s story to a satisfying conclusion. Hulu has announced The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 will be the show’s final season, leading to plenty of speculation about how the dark but timely series will end. And now, at long last, we have a trailer that hints at how all of it will unfold.
The show’s fifth season aired way back in 2022, walking viewers through Commander Waterford’s murder, the birth of Serena Joy’s child, and just how much the liberated handmaids’ trauma continues to impact their everyday lives. We saw a hint of how Alexis Bledel’s Emily will be written out of the story, and what June’s plan is now that she’s dispatched Commander Waterford for good.
Read on for everything you need to know about the final season of The Handmaid’s Tale.
Is there a trailer yet?
On Feb. 12, Hulu released the first official teaser for Season 6, and it makes it clear that the handmaids are now the ones out for blood.
When will The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 premiere?
We’ve come this far... and we’ll have to wait a little longer. However, it won’t be a tortuously long time — Hulu just announced The Handmaid’s Tale‘s sixth and final season will premiere with a three-episode drop on April 8. New episodes will air weekly on Tuesdays, leading up to what will undoubtedly be an explosive series finale on May 27.
What will Season 6 be about?
Season 5 proved to be an emotional rollercoaster all the way through. At one point, it looks as though Luke and June will finally be reunited with their daughter, Hannah, as a covert military operation by the Americans planned to rescue her and other young girls at a “finishing” school for future Gilead wives. Tragically, Gilead shoots down the planes before they can accomplish their mission.
It became painfully apparent that Gilead’s influence had reached Canada, with Gilead even sending a hitman to run over June with his car. Luke defends June, beating the driver up to the point that he dies from his injuries. And because nothing is ever truly just where Gilead is concerned, Luke gets arrested for killing a Canadian citizen.
Meanwhile, back in Gilead, two of June’s loved ones make potentially fatal moves. After hearing about the truck sent to run over June, Nick storms up to Commander Lawrence, punching him and saying, “You could have killed her!” He gets detained. His wife visits him in prison and breaks up with him.
As for Janine, she loses her sh*t on the Commander’s new wife, Mrs. Putnam, after Aunt Lydia tries to secure Janine a spot as their new handmaid (which would put Janine in the same house as her daughter). After her outburst, the eyes come and take her away.
As the animosity toward American refugees grows, Luke, Moira, and June decide to flee. With Tuolo’s help, they attempt to catch a train headed west to start fresh. Luke gets detained before he can get on the train, and in the final few moments of the season finale, we see June run into none other than Serena Joy with her baby — she’d escaped the controlling Canadian “safe house” couple who’d been trying to hijack her son.
So, where do we go from here? If the trailer is any indication, revolution is afoot. And if the show follows Atwood’s lead in the book, Gilead will be destroyed by the time the final credits roll. For fans who have stuck with the series since its grim first season, nothing would be more satisfying than watching the regime crumble and knowing June’s daughters will have a better future to live in.
Who will star in The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6?
No one is ever truly safe in The Handmaid’s Tale. Over the years, several main characters have either died or departed the show, and there’s no reason to believe Season 5 will be any different. From the trailer, we know we’ll once again see:
- Moss as June
- O-T Fagbenle as Luke
- Samira Wiley as Moira
- Yvonne Strahovski as Serena Joy
- Madeline Brewer as Janine
- Max Minghella as Nick
- Amanda Brugel as Rita
- Bradley Whitford as Commander Lawrence
- Ann Dowd as Aunt Lydia
Original cast member Bledel made the decision to step back from the series at the end of Season 4. However, Miller recently told Entertainment Tonight that the door has been left open for the character’s return if the actor is up for it. “That character was not at the end of her journey as far as we were concerned,” Miller said. “We’re mindful of that, from a practical standpoint, to [leave] that door open.”
Is Season 6 really the end of The Handmaid’s Tale?
The Handmaid’s Tale is ending, but Hulu isn’t finished with Gilead just yet. As revealed in a press release from Hulu, Miller is busy developing a follow-up series called The Testaments, based on Atwood’s 2019 novel of the same name. The story picks up 15 years after the events of the original book and follows three characters — one of whom is Aunt Lydia.
The show hasn’t been officially picked up to series, but there’s a strong possibility that the world of The Handmaid’s Tale will continue even after June’s story comes to a close.
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