The First Trailer for 'The Handmaid's Tale' Season 2 Is Finally Here
Ever since The Handmaid's Tale was renewed for a second season, we've been keeping our (very sharp) eyes out for more details. After all, we don't precisely know what's coming next: Although the series is based on Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel, there were so many twists and turns in the first season—not to mention tweaks and outright deviations from the plot—that the second season is a mystery. Wherever things are going, though, we're definitely on board.
We do have some clues about what's to come: According to a press release from Hulu, the second season will center on Offred's pregnancy as she fights to save her future child from "the horrors" of Gilead. And earlier this week, the first photos were revealed...including a glimpse of what a handmaid's funeral looks like. The biggest clue yet, though, came today when Hulu dropped the season's first full trailer.
Set to a very haunting version of Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth," the trailer proves this season will just as necessary viewing. Watch, below:
The second season feels more timely than ever, given the power dynamics and sexual politics of Gilead, the dystopian, post-U.S. world The Handmaid's Tale is set in: The first season debuted four months after President Donald Trump—an alleged sexual assaulter in a position of governmental power—was elected; the new season will come on the heels of the #MeToo movement, a campaign that's chronicled tens of thousands of women's stories about sexual assault and coercion at the hands of powerful men.
Gildead, however fictional it might be, sometimes doesn't seem so far away—apt, considering that Atwood drew upon real events past and present to spin her chilling narrative. Watching the series feels at once spell-binding, horrifying, and voyeuristic, as if we're glimpsing our own worst-case scenario play out in front of us. Even still, it's also utterly compelling and unmissable. Count us in for round two.
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