The Handmaid’s Tale has dropped its official trailer for season 4 along with promotional images for the upcoming installment in Hulu’s hit series. Picking up from where it left off, season 4 has been long-awaited, since the previous one ended in 2019.
Hulu’s new trailer sees June seeking justice while the country of Gilead prepares for an all-out war. Faced with daunting challenges that could break her physically and mentally, June’s journey for redemption could potentially harm the relationships she holds dear to herself.
Also released by Hulu is a promotional poster for the show and a handful of still images featuring many of the characters.
Filled with chaotic and gripping moments, the trailer hints at a suspense-filled season. A teaser posted in February also mirrored the perilous journey June will have to go down after rebelling against Gilead.
Season 3 saw June become a handmaid to Commander Joseph Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) and take up the name Ofjoseph. Later, she is able to rescue many women and children and help them escape to Canada, even though the ending shows her getting shot in the woods.
The Handmaid’s Tale season 4 premieres on April 28, 2021.
Her acts of rebellion have put the government on the lookout for her. But June doesn’t seem to be in a flight and survival mode as she is on the hunt to exact justice upon the people who have wronged her.
The series is based on the dystopian novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood and takes place in an authoritarian society. The series is centered around the protagonist June Osborne, played by Elisabeth Moss. Being a fertile woman, she is made a “Handmaid” to a reproductively challenged couple, Commander Fred Waterford and his wife, Serena Joy.
As a concubine, she has to take the name of her master and thus is made to renounce her original name and become Offred. She later tries to escape to Canada to be reunited with her husband and daughter.
The series has received critical acclaim and been nominated for many awards, winning 8 Primetime Emmys. Further cast includes Yvonne Strahovski, Joseph Fiennes, Ann Dowd, Max Minghella, Alexis Bledel, and Samira Wiley, among many others.
About The Handmaid’s Tale
The Handmaid’s Tale is an American dystopian television series created by Bruce Miller for Hulu. It is based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel of the same name.
Set in the fictional dystopian state of Gilead, where fertile women are kept as “handmaids” and are subjected to child-bearing slavery, the series Offred (June Osbourne) and her fight for her freedom from Gilead, along with all the oppressed.
The series has covered four seasons worth of runtime, and the fifth season will premiere on Hulu on 14 September 2022.
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