Why The Handmaid's Tale is ending: The real reason behind no season 7
Season six of The Handmaid's Tale is finally coming to an end and fans are having to cope with the fact that it's also the end of the series. We have been watching and waiting for years, hoping for the total destruction of the dystopian society that's taken over America to play out on screen, and as the finale neared, it seemed like it would not happen. (As it turns out, there's a reason for that. More on that later!) There's undeniably so much more story left to tell, so will season six really be the final season of The Handmaid's Tale? Well, here's what we know about why The Handmaid's Tale isn't coming back for a season seven.
I'm sorry to say but yes, after six seasons, The Handmaid's Tale is finally coming to an end. The show has already gone well beyond what the original book by Margaret Atwood covered and has taken us on a wild ride of escaping Gilead, sneaking back into Gilead, trying to take Gilead down, and doing the whole thing over again. The show's creators have said for a long time that they planned for this to be the final season, and have been building up to it for a few years now.
"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," creator, showrunner, and executive producer Bruce Miller told The Hollywood Reporter in 2022 when the final season was announced.
Again, sadly it seems extremely unlikely, but the reason for that is kinda exciting. Hulu is already working on a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale based on the book's sequel called The Testaments. It's set several years after the end of the show and will see the return of some familiar characters. It focuses on the story of three women: Agnes (AKA June's daughter Hannah), Daisy (AKA June's other daughter Nicole), and Aunt Lydia (I know, you really can never get rid of that woman).
The show is already filming and although there's no official release date yet, it's expected to come out sometime next year. So, really, we won't have to wait too long before returning to the horrifying world of Gilead. Praise be!
The Handmaid's Tale is available to watch on Channel 4 now
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