Hulu announced the official release dates of some of its original series and films, including The Handmaid's Tale Season 3. Fans will be in for a treat as the show will premiere with its first three episodes before it returns to its original weekly schedule.
The Handmaid's Tale Season 3 will be out on June 5 on Hulu. Three new episodes will be released in subsequent hours, and then it will eventually return to its original schedule, per TV Line.
The Handmaid's Tale Season 3 will continue where the previous season finale left off. June (Elisabeth Moss) decided to stay in Gilead to look out for Hannah while Emily (Alexis Blade) took her infant daughter and escaped.
Hulu revealed The Handmaid's Tale Season 3 would mostly focus on June's rebellion. It would also feature "startling reunions, betrayals and a journey to the terrifying heart of Gilead."
The recently released The Handmaid's Tale Season 3's trailer during the Super Bowl showed Ronald Reagan's 1984 political ad, Morning in America. It then turned into a mass of fire, chaos, and June's voiceover. "Wake up, America," she said. "Morning's over."
The trailer also gave everyone a glimpse of The Handmaid's Tale Season 3's characters like Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes), Serena Joy Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski), Luke (O-T Fagbenle), and Nick (Max Minghella). Fans can also expect to see more of Commander Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) in the new season as he is now a series regular.
Unfortunately, The Handmaid's Tale Season 3's late premiere makes its ineligible for the 2019 Emmy Awards. But, Hulu's senior vice president of originals Craig Erwich told journalists at the Television Critics Association press tour that they maintained the show's quality and they wanted to give it more time to maintain its high standards just like in the first and second seasons.
Meanwhile, showrunner Bruce Miller promised The Handmaid's Tale Season 3 would not go too far from Margaret Atwood's novel with the same title. "People talk about how we're beyond the book, but we're not really," he told The Hollywood Reporter.
After the novel starts, it jumps 200 years with an academic discussion at its end. It tackles what happened in those "intervening 200 years." Although it seems handled in an outline, it is still part of the book. Miller also added The Handmaid's Tale Season 3 would not go beyond the novel, but they would be covering a territory Margaret Atwood has "covered quickly, a bit more slowly."
