If The Bad Place ever existed on Earth, it would look a hell of a lot like Gilead, in our estimation. So it makes sense that The Good Place star D’Arcy Carden has joined the fold for the sixth and final season of The Handmaid’s Tale. Though production on the show has already wrapped, Hulu is only just now dropping these fascinating casting tidbits in preparation for the series’ return to our screens on April 8, 2025.
The Hollywood Reporter revealed D’Arcy Carden’s casting in The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6. She’s not the only new, familiar-to-us face to hop aboard the series in its final outing: late last year it was announced that Veep creep and fellow comedy stalwart Timothy Simons had also joined the cast in a guest-starring capacity. As it currently stands, we have no further details on either actors’ characters, but regardless of which side of the revolution they’re on, it feels safe to assume they will be draped (or suited) in some seriously striking garments as they wrap up a story that’s become increasingly too prescient since its premiere in 2017.
OK, So What Do We Know About ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 6 So Far?
Though specific details about the final season are being closely guarded, we do know that it will follow June (Elisabeth Moss) as she tries to bring the revolution to Gilead and break the red cape chains by which all birthing women are held captive. Now that June has realized her family is no longer safe in Canada, she’s reunited with Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski) and reconciled their previously toxic and fraught relationship, thanks to the latter finally realizing that if any woman is unsafe in Gilead, no woman can truly be safe. Even if they, say, align themselves with the christo-patriarchal laws of the land. It will, no doubt, be a catharsis to see the two adversaries (hopefully) band together to take Gilead down from the inside as the fanned flames of revolution continue to light a spark across the rest of the country.
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Season 6 of The Handmaid’s Tale may be the final chapter in this particular story, but it is far from the last thing we hear from the world of Gilead. It was recently reported that Maraget Atwood’s follow-up novel, The Testaments, will also get a television adaptation from the same team behind the current Hulu series. Just this past Thursday, the streamer announced the casting of a major character named Agnes — to be played by Chase Infiniti — joining the already-announced return of Aunt Lydia herself, played by Ann Dowd. That story will be set fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, and will focus on three women trying to survive Gilead as it attempts to hold onto the power that is slipping through its proverbial fingers.
I guess that also means it is safe to assume that June will not be burning the whole thing to the ground and living with her family, happily ever after, in a world freed from Gilead’s terrorism. Ain’t that just a bummer? Ah, well. Until we know how the finale shakes out, keep it locked to MovieWeb to get all your latest casting and plot details as they’re released.
Release Date
2017 – 2024
Showrunner
Bruce Miller
Writers
Bruce Miller, Margaret Atwood
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