“What I have given them, in the locked writers’ room that nobody’s allowed into - including me - is a whole new whiteboard and a bunch of new characters.

While speaking with EW, Atwood teased how elements of The Testaments may or may not be used in those forthcoming episodes: It’s only right, as they’ve done such an incredible job with the story thus far. And apparently neither can the streaming service that is the home of The Handmaid’s Tale, Hulu, as they have already picked up the rights to the next installment.

I can’t wait to hear the story it will tell. The new book from Atwood is called The Testaments, and it will pick up fifteen years after the end of the first novel, with three female narrators. While the series has already surged past the ending of June’s character (referred to in the book and much of the series as Offred – literally meaning of Fred, the commander of the house she is stationed at), and has taken liberties with the characters that surround her to fill out the story, the author of the book has written a sequel to the original story, and it will be great to hear it all in Atwood’s voice as she revisits the story herself. It’s so incredibly gripping, you can’t look away. The series feels so outlandish, yet so possible for a society at odds with the wrong people in control. The Golden Globe and Emmy-winning series follows the lead character and many women like her, as she is ripped from the society she knows and thrust into the dystopian society of Gilead, separated from her husband and daughter, and forced to become a handmaid, or surrogate, for a well-off and politically important family who cannot conceive. Mark Hamill and His Return of the Jedi Prop Lightsaber Reunite in Pop Culture Quest Clip

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