The Handmaid’s Story Releases First Look and Premiere Date for sixth Season

A take a look at the collection finale of The Handmaid’s Story has arrived!

On Wednesday, Feb. 12, the teaser and premiere date for the sixth and ultimate season of the hit collection was launched. Coming to Hulu on April 8, the conclusion proves to be probably the most intense but as Elisabeth Moss returns to her starring function as June to steer the revolution towards the totalitarian regime of Gilead.

“They believed that these clothes that they placed on our our bodies instructed the world who we’re,” June says in the beginning of the trailer. “To mark us, they put us in purple, the colour of blood. They forgot that it is also the colour of rage. The costume turned our uniform, and we turned a military.”

“One thing massive is about to occur,” Yvonne Strahovski’s Serena then declares because the handmaids get into formation after returning to Gilead.

Because the teaser involves an finish, June says: “Although we stroll by means of the valley of the shadow of dying, we are going to concern no evil.”

Per the official synopsis, season 6 will spotlight the June’s conviction for freedom.

“June’s unyielding spirit and willpower pull her again into the battle to take down Gilead. Luke and Moira be part of the resistance. Serena tries to reform Gilead whereas Commander Lawrence and Aunt Lydia reckon with what they’ve wrought, and Nick faces difficult checks of character. This ultimate chapter of June’s journey highlights the significance of hope, braveness, solidarity, and resilience within the pursuit of justice and freedom.”

The preview comes simply days after collection stars O.T. Fagbenle, who performs Luke, and Amanda Brugel, who performs Rita, introduced that the ultimate season had wrapped manufacturing. In an Instagram carousel posted on Monday, Feb. 10, Fagbenle shared photos together with his costars Moss, Strahovski, Bradley Whitford, Max Minghella, Ann Dowd, Samira Wiley, Madeline Brewer and Brugel.

“THATS A WRAP on the ultimate season of Handmaids! It’s coming quickly! Any predictions,” he captioned the publish.

The earlier week, on Tuesday, Feb. 4, Brugel posted an Instagram Reel with a collection of images and clips from the set, placing the forged and crew’s enjoyable behind the scenes moments on show.

“A long time from now, do you have to ask me what I keep in mind of you, I’ll recount my very personal liberation from a life that didn’t serve me. And the laughter. And holding fingers with Margaret,” she wrote, referring to the supply novel’s writer, Margaret Atwood.

“However most of all, with out fail, I shall keep in mind the dancing,” she continued. “That’s how love goes. #serieswrap.”

Bruce Miller, the creator and showrunner of The Handmaid’s Story, revealed that season 6 could be the final in September 2022, forward of the premiere of the fifth season.

“It has been a real honor to inform the story of Margaret Atwood’s groundbreaking novel and chillingly related world, and we’re thrilled to convey viewers a sixth and ultimate season of The Handmaid’s Story,” he mentioned. 

The ultimate season promised it will be “massive and wild” as manufacturing started in mid-2024. “It positively has final-season power,” Moss instructed TVLine in Could of that 12 months. “[It] goes to many alternative locations, and it is vitally, very shocking all through.”

The forged contains Moss (June Osborne), Strahovski (Serena Pleasure Waterford), Bradley Whitford (Commander Lawrence), Max Minghella (Nick), Ann Dowd (Aunt Lydia), O.T. Fagbenle (Luke), Samira Wiley (Moira), Madeline Brewer (Janine), Amanda Brugel (Rita), Sam Jaeger (Mark Tuello) and Ever Carradine (Naomi Putnam). 

In July 2024, it was introduced that Josh Charles could be becoming a member of the collection for the ultimate season. 

Whereas maintaining the main points of the plot for season 6 quiet, Miller teased what followers might count on from the finale, telling DigitalSpy in November 2022 that he was pissed off with the e book’s abrupt ending.

“Everyone’s like, ‘Who do you suppose you’re, writing extra?’ I’m like, ‘Oh my God, it’s all I’ve ever wished to do, to write down the remaining.’ As a result of it’s like: what the hell occurred?! Oh my God — it’s probably the most infuriating ending,” he instructed the outlet.

He added that the collection’ conclusion could be on its “personal phrases.”

“It’s one thing we by no means get with simply the way in which the enterprise is ready up,” he defined. “And in addition, extra importantly, not one thing everybody would give to the viewers.”

Moss additionally teased character dynamics prior to now, hinting that the connection between June and Serena would develop extra advanced.

“I am the primary particular person to be like, ‘Neglect June, let’s deal with Serena for this episode.’ Yvonne [Strahovski] mentioned it so properly when she mentioned, ‘There is no Serena with out June, and there is no June with out Serena,’ and that is so true,” she mentioned on the Completely happy Unhappy Confused podcast in Could 2024. “And so to me, the parallel tales, I really like that a part of the present a lot. So I completely agree with the followers on this one.”

She additionally shared that the ultimate season was crafted with followers in thoughts greater than ever earlier than.

“I really feel like this season, we’re giving it again to the viewers,” she instructed TVLine. “We positively actually have our eye on that, ensuring that it does really feel rewarding and satisfying for the followers and like what we’d wish to watch, you understand, as followers of the present.”

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The primary three episodes of season 6 of The Handmaid’s Story premiere on April 8, adopted by one episode weekly till the collection finale on Could 27. Seasons 1-5 of The Handmaid’s Story can be found to stream on Hulu.