{"id":459535,"date":"2026-05-21T05:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T05:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/459535\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T05:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T05:02:17","slug":"the-testaments-renewed-for-season-2-at-hulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/459535\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Testaments&#8217; Renewed for Season 2 at Hulu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-testaments\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-testaments\" data-tag=\"the-testaments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Testaments<\/a>\u201d has been renewed for Season 2 at <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/hulu\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hulu\" data-tag=\"hulu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hulu<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe series, which serves as followup to \u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale,\u201d originally debuted in April. The renewal news comes just ahead of the Season 1 finale, which is scheduled to drop on May 27. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe series stars Ann Dowd, Chase Infiniti, 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. \u201cHandmaid\u2019s Tale\u201d star Elisabeth Moss returned in a surprise guest appearance, reprising the role of June Osborn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe logline for the show states that the series follows \u201cyoung teens Agnes (Infiniti), dutiful and pious, and Daisy (Halliday), a new arrival and convert from beyond Gilead\u2019s borders. As they navigate the gilded halls of Aunt Lydia\u2019s (Dowd) elite preparatory school for future wives, a place where obedience is instilled brutally and always with divine justification, their bond becomes the catalyst that will upend their past, their present, and their future.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLike \u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale,\u201d \u201cThe Testaments\u201d is based on Margaret Atwood\u2019s novel of the same name. Bruce Miller created the series and serves as executive producer and showrunner. Warren Littlefield, Moss, Steve Stark, Shana Stein, Maya Goldsmith, John Weber, Sheila Hockin, Daniel Wilson, Fran Sears and Mike Barker also executive produce. Barker also directed the first three episodes and finale. \u201cThe Testaments\u201d is produced by MGM Television and 20th Television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe Testaments\u201d has received mostly favorable reviews from critics since it launched, while audiences have currently streamed over 45 million hours of the show globally across Hulu and Disney+, per Disney. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Testaments\u201d has been renewed for Season 2 at Hulu. The series, which serves as followup to \u201cThe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,3287,61,60,97465,282],"class_list":["post-459535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-hulu","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-the-testaments","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}