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Coming of age in the universe The Handmaid’s Tale It was always going to be a horror story, and the new trailer for the film Covenants It reveals how terrifying things were for girls growing up in Gilead.
Hulu has released the highly anticipated first look at the sequel to Margaret Atwood’s Emmy Award-winning series that captivated viewers for six seasons until it was signed on in May 2025. The Handmaid’s Tale It brought Elisabeth Moss’s tale full circle, but it also put protagonist June Osborn on an eye-opening journey when she vowed to never stop fighting for the return of her first daughter Hannah, who had been renamed Agnes since it was taken from her and is now growing up as a young teenager in Gilead.
Enter now Covenantsviewers meet teenager Agnes, played by Chase Infinity. The trailer shows Agnes as a “plum” (colors mean everything in Gilead), meaning she has grown up under the totalitarian regime her mother is fighting against and the growing resistance, and is training to become Gilead’s wife.
“It’s easier to accept a story than to believe that the people around you are monsters,” Agnes begins in the two-minute trailer (below) set to the popular ’90s hit “Dreams” from The Cranberries. As the trailer digs deeper into its premise, Agnes’s plum view of her world becomes darker and darker, as familiar Gilead images of this patriarchal world emerge, such as people hanging on “the wall” and wives placing the law of Gilead on their “daughters.”
But the clip ends with the main components of The Handmaid’s Tale – Resistance and hope. Agnes holds the hands of her fellow Peaches and vows to fight. “We had no idea what we were capable of,” she says, trying to smile her mother’s famously disrespectful smile. “It’s time for us to change things.”
Covenantsadapted from Atwood’s sequel novel of the same name, comes from the showrunner and executive producers of The Handmaid’s Tale series. The sequel series was created for MGM Television and 20th Television by showrunner/executive producer Bruce Miller and is executive produced by Warren Littlefield, Moss, Steve Stark, Shana Stein, Maya Goldsmith, John Weber, Sheila Hawkin, Daniel Wilson, Fran Sears and Mike Parker, the latter of whom will also direct the first three episodes and the finale.
Includes staff The Handmaid’s TaleEmmy Award-winning star Ann Dowd reprises her role as Aunt Lydia, alongside new cast members Infinity, Lucy Halliday, Mabel Lee, Amy Seimetz, Brad Alexander, Rowan Blanchard, Mattia Conforti, Zarin Darnell Martin, Eva Foote, Isolde Ardis, Sheshina Mpumlwana, Purva Pandya and Keira Gullwyn.
Although Moss has not been confirmed in the cast, she is an executive producer and June will be there for the finale. Covenants Given how The Handmaid’s Tale I finish. Covenants Picks up four years later The Handmaid’s Tale End, with a view now from the young women of Gilead. “They’ve never known a world that didn’t have Gilead in it. So, it’s not all ugly,” executive producer Warren Littlefield previously explained to THR. “As Margaret writes in the book, the school that educates these young women is Lydia’s. So we proudly embrace Ann Dowd to carry us forward and she is a very important rudder from one world to the next.”
“You have teenage wives. It’s the dynamic between girls of a certain age who are as unsettled as they can be in Gilead — with this huge sword, the Marriage of Damocles, hanging over their heads,” Miller added. (Reads THROral history of The Handmaid’s Tale For more.)
Here is the official record Covenants: “development The Handmaid’s Tale, Covenants The film is based on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the same name, and is a dramatic story set in Gilead. The series follows young teens Agnes, who is religious and devout, and Daisy, a newcomer and convert from beyond the borders of Gilead. As they navigate the gilded halls of Aunt Lydia’s elite prep school for future wives, a place where obedience is brutally instilled and always with divine justification, their bond becomes the catalyst that will upend their past, present, and future.
Covenants It will premiere on April 8 with three episodes, then release new episodes weekly on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers.
