- Network: HULU
- Series Premiere Date: Apr 8, 2026
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There’s a lot of world-building across the season’s slow-moving ten episodes, which feels like a waste given how familiar even casual TV watchers are with the original series.
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These are the interesting parts of The Testaments. .... Unfortunately, in its execution, the show struggles not to embellish, adding cheesy lingo—the girls tell one another to “plum up”—and inserting unfortunately on-the-nose needle drops.
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With the same style and sensibility come the same sins. "Testaments" veers frequently into sensationalism and guffaw-worthy ridiculousness, leaving gaping plot holes. .... If the bad is all the same as "Handmaid's," the good parts of "Testaments" are at least novel and refreshing.
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The Testaments is different enough from The Handmaid’s Tale to be engaging, yet too exhaustingly connected to that series to stand as something truly distinctive and provocative.
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Even with three narrators instead of one, “The Testaments” struggles to express anything that “The Handmaid’s Tale” hasn’t already observed.
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The show feels like another teenage drama set within an all-too-familiar landscape, and even at times like a dull and tortuous all-girl Harry Potter yarn — all that pubescent struggling and another prestige show done to death.