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Margaret Atwood on 'The Testaments' and Trad Wives

TIME·Shannon Carlin·26 days ago
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Warning: Spoilers ahead for The Testaments The Handmaid’s Tale , Hulu’s six-season TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood ’s acclaimed 1985 novel, was an emblem of anti-Donald Trump resistance during his first presidential administration. As for what its sequel series, The Testaments , loosely based on Atwood’s 2019 best-seller of the same name , will represent for audiences during Trump’s second term, “that’s not up to me,” the 86-year-old author tells TIME. “Readers and viewers will make up their own minds about what it represents.” The Testaments , now streaming on Hulu, picks up in the Republic of Gilead four years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale ’s 2025 finale in which titular handmaid June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) is liberated from the totalitarian theocracy that forced her into sexual servitude for infertile couples, but vows to keep fighting for those still left behind, including her teenage daughter, Hannah, now known as Agnes MacKenzie after being adopted by a prominent Gilead commander a decade…

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