In April 2017, a Hulu show premiered: The Handmaid’s Tale. And, without any effort, it changed our lives. After a year of winning a lot of awards, now the second season will debut in 04/25. As the first season was a success – with rate 95 in Rotten Tomatoes -, the expectations for the quality to continue as high as it could be
If you watched the first season and want to know what to expect of the new one, this is the right post for you. But if you are not familiar with this series, be careful: there will be a lot of spoilers here. We recommend you to watch the amazing season one and come back to this post as soon as possible – because we know you will fall in love and binge-watch it.
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Now, to what we know so far about the second season of The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s going to be a little bit longer than season one, with 13 episodes. Since the story will have a larger setting, additions to cast were made. Bradley Whitford (Get Out!) and Sydney Sweeney (Everything Sucks!) will join the lovely cast of the show, followed by some pretty amazing guest roles played by Marisa Tomei, Clea DuVall and Cherry Jones – as Offred’s mother.
It has been confirmed that we will see Ofglen, because now Alexis Bledel is a regular in the show. An interesting – and important – topic to approach here is how Bruce Miller, the series creator, demanded half of the episodes to be directed by a woman.
The Gilead world will also have new areas to be explored. Some of them we haven’t seen in the series yet, but were already approached in the masterpiece of Margaret Atwood. The writer of the book that inspired the series is still very active in the process and probably will enter in some aspects not completely explained in season one.
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One of those aspects is the relation of June with her mother. Since we don’t know how this fact will be approached, and as lovers of the book, we’ll try to not give so many spoilers. In the book, Atwood explores some really intenses feelings between June and her mother in the period before the Handmaid’s. We get to see some intimate relationships of June that goes beyond Moira, Luke and Hannah. But how this will be explored still a mystery to all of us.
And since Elizabeth Moss (Ofglen/June) revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that the plot of this season will surround motherhood, this relation between June and her mother could probably be presented. The fact that the protagonist also ends season one pregnant probably suggests that the show will center the struggle to save her children in this horror world that is Gilead – with a darker content, as usual.
Other aspect that we have merely seen in the first season and is also disjointed in the book is one scenario pretty present in the teasers of season two: The Colonies. If you got choked about how women were treated in Gilead, you will probably get even more terrified with their treatment in the colonies. In the book, there’s an expression to the person who is sent there: Unwomen. In other words, this prefix before the word “women” is really valid for you to understand how they are submitted to an life even worse than you have already seen.
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This is one of the many scenarios that Margaret Atwood created to makes us think how our reality is not so far from this fiction. But as a feminist and magnificent writer, get ready to see all of this submission becomes strength unity with the two characters present in this place, Ofglen and Janine.
If you’ve got a little anxious reading this post, we can already feel that we have fulfilled our mission, because we can share this anxiety with more fans of this wonderful series. But stay tuned and check your calendar so you do not miss it: The Handmaid’s Tale returns to conquer our hearts on April 25th. Be ready!