‘The Testaments’ First Look: Hulu’s ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Spinoff Starring Ann Dowd & Rising Actress Chase Infiniti Debuts In April

Hulu‘s next chapter in “The Handmaid’s Tale” saga is the Ann Dowd-led spinoff series “The Testaments,” which sees the actress from the original show reprise the role of Aunt Lydia Clements as we’ve got our hands on a batch of first-look images as it debuts in April.

The new spinoff series also stars on-the-rise actress Chase Infiniti, who is gathering a lot of buzz surrounding her co-starring performance alongside veteran acting heavyweights Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, and Benicio Del Toro in Paul Thomas Anderson‘s Best Picture Oscar hopeful “One Battle After Another.” This led to her recent landing herself a Golden Globes nomination on Monday, a potential early signal that she’ll be shortlisted for an Oscar nomination next year.

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Others on the show’s call-sheet feature Lucy Halliday, Mabel Li, Amy Seimetz, Brad Alexander, Rowan Blanchard,  Mattea Conforti, Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Eva Foote, Isolde Ardies, Shechinah Mpumlwana, Birva Pandya, and Kira Guloien.

A logline for the Hulu show provided by the streamer:

“The Testaments” is based on Margaret Atwood’s Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name, which was published in 2019 and takes place in the dystopian theocracy of Gilead. Years after the events of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Testaments” is a coming-of-age story that finds a new generation of young women in Gilead grappling with the bleak future that awaits them. For these young women, growing up in Gilead is all they have ever known, having no tangible memories of the outside world prior to their indoctrination into this life. Facing the prospect of being married off and living a life of servitude, they will be forced to search for allies, both new and old, to help in their fight for freedom and the life they deserve.

Hailing from MGM Television, “The Testaments” was created for television by showrunner and executive producer Bruce Miller and executive produced by Warren Littlefield, Elisabeth Moss, Steve Stark, Shana Stein, Maya Goldsmith, John Weber, Sheila Hockin, Daniel Wilson, Fran Sears, and Mike Barker, who will also direct the first three episodes.

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You can view those newly released stills from “The Testaments” below, as we patiently wait for a teaser trailer from Hulu.