The acclaimed, Emmy-winning Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale will end with season six. This news comes only a week before the show’s fifth season is set to premiere on Hulu. Creator, showrunner, and executive producer Bruce Miller told The Hollywood Reporter, “It’s been a very, very, very luxurious time that I’ve had to think about what happens at the end of this story and exactly how we’d like to get there as a company. I’m very glad we’re being able to do it on our own terms because I know how lucky that makes us — all the actors and creative people who put their hearts and souls into it — to close up the play the way you want. Dropping the curtain the way you want is such a huge privilege.”
The Success and Impact of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
The Handmaid’s Tale, adapted from Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel of the same name, has been an immensely acclaimed and successful show. It has won 15 Emmy awards and has reached the top of Nielsen Streaming Ratings. According to IndieWire, the fourth season was watched for 516 million minutes between May 17 to 13 last year. The show has been particularly celebrated for touching on matters eerily prevalent in the political climate of the last half-decade.
Hulu Is Not Done With Gilead
While The Handmaid’s Tale will end with season six, Hulu is not done with the universe the series introduced us to. Hulu is set to adapt Atwood’s 2019 novel The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale.
Fans of The Handmaid’s Tale can still look forward to two more seasons, the former of which will release on Hulu on September 14.
