'Has Trump assisted audience fascination with Gilead? Perhaps': The Testaments' creators on why the real world hasn't changed since The
Handmaid's Tale

Date:
Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Description:
Trump's first and second terms have aligned with the release of both The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments but for the creators, nothing has changed.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Tech Radar Get daily insight, inspiration and deals in your inbox Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion, top tech deals, and more. Become a Member in Seconds Unlock instant access to exclusive member
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When season 1 of The Handmaid's Tale first launched in April 2017, Donald Trump had been inaugurated as the USA's 45th President only a few months before. Almost a decade later, sequel spinoff The Testaments makes its debut 15 months into Trump's second term as the 47th President. Article continues below You may like The Testaments release date and everything about The Handmaid's Tale sequel The Testaments review: season 2 of The Handmaid's Tale spinoff is a given The Testaments episodes 1-3 release date and time on Hulu and Disney+ In that time, "The Handmaid's Tale" has been adopted as social shorthand for describing a variety of socio-political developments in the Western world, such as the overturning of the historic Roe vs. Wade legal precedent by the US Supreme Court in 2022. It almost feels as though nothing has changed between the two TV releases, yet so much has. But does creator Bruce Miller and producer Warren Littlefield feel like they're releasing the sequel spinoff into a different world? Today's best Hulu deals Get first
month free Hulu - Monthly (with Ads) $7.99 $9.99 /mth View at Hulu Get First Month Free Hulu (No Ads) $18.99 /mth View at Hulu 'The world chooses to make us relevant, and Margaret Atwood helps us bring it to life' The Testaments | Trailer | Hulu - YouTube Watch On Today's best Disney+ Bundle deals Disney+, Hulu Bundle $12.99 /mth View at Disney+ Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ Bundle - Basic $19.99 /mth View at Disney+ Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ Bundle - Premium $29.99 /mth View at Disney+ "When Margaret [Atwood] first published The Handmaid's Tale
in the 1980s, she saw what the world might turn into," Littlefield begins. "And Bruce, brilliantly, was able to adapt that. As we were halfway through making season one of The Handmaid's Tale , number 45 took office."

"Does Trump get an assist in audiences being fascinated with the world that
we brought to life? Perhaps. But I think that we always go back to Margaret's view as a worldview. That was also true when The Testaments was published a few years ago Margaret looked at again how the world was changing, and how Gilead might be still alive... but in a different place, in a different time. Get daily insight, inspiration and deals in your inbox Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion, top tech deals, and more. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our
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He continues, "Bruce and I have said for many years now, we would like to quietly go away and be irrelevant, but the themes keep pulling us back in.
The world chooses to make us relevant, and Margaret helps us bring it to life."

It's a bone-chillingly truthful answer. Perhaps we are as much to blame for why we resonate with Gilead to the extent that we do, and we can't put the complete blame on the door of world politics.

"The world has changed, Margaret saw that," Miller agrees. "That would never happen," he jokes about their work becoming irrelevant, though it feels less humorous in hindsight.

The Testaments is an extension of The Handmaid's Tale in the best way, but
it means sitting with yet more uncomfortable ideology and fiction that frequently feels too close to home. Who knows... maybe we'll learn from it this time. $82.99 /mth at Hulu $95.99 /mth at Hulu Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button!

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