"Knowing we couldn't reunite them, it was heartbreaking because we're certainly aware of how much the audience was longing for that. It seemed to be what was driving June over the course of the whole series," said showrunner Eric Tuchman in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
The sequel, based on Margaret Atwood's 2019 novel, is set just a few years after the events of the TV series (in the book it's 15 years) in Gilead, at the centre of which are three characters, one of whom is Hannah – or Agnes, as she was renamed – played here by One Battle After Another's Chase Infiniti.
So, as far removed from her freedom fighting mother as she can get.
But while fans will be eager for The Testaments to deliver that long-awaited reunion – and no one could argue it wouldn't feel earned – show creator Bruce Miller and executive producer Warren Littlefield discussed how they balance audience expectation and hopes with what is actually truthful to the story they are telling.
"Agnes certainly is rooting for Agnes, it's not just the audience. She wants things to work out, she would like to get together with a guy and she would like to have a life, so anything that can bring you closer to the characters and [create] simpatico with the characters is bringing you into the show.
Yet while they "embrace passionate opinion from the fan base", Littlefield added that "we may not do exactly what they're asking for in our narrative".
"The thing that's absolutely a pleasure is they [the audience] are having exactly the same discussions we are," he said. "So you have people fighting it out, [and] that's what we do all day long, is just fight it out.
"In the old days, you'd get letters seven months later, and it didn't really help you with filming."
View Green Video on the source websiteShe attends the same school as Agnes, run by none other than Aunt Lydia, where "their bond becomes the catalyst that will upend their past, present and future".
"And she's gone through so many changes, ones she's brought upon herself after being brought to her knees by June Osborne at the end of The Handmaid's Tale," she said, teasing "a different world" and a "gentler" Aunt Lydia.
The Testaments will be premiering on Disney+ in the UK on Wednesday 8 April 2026.
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