In the Full Trailer for 'The Handmaid's Tale' Season Six, "Now It's Time for Them to Be Afraid of Us"

Blessed be your streaming queue one last time, or at least until a TV version of The Testaments arrives. The Handmaid's Tale is finishing in 2025, concluding with the page-to-screen hit's sixth season. As both the first teaser trailer and the just-dropped full sneak peek at the award-winning series' last run illustrate, June (Elisabeth Moss, The Veil) is again up for a fight.

Since 2017, watching The Handmaid's Tale has meant wishing for one thing: the end of Gilead, the totalitarian, male-dominated society that rules the show's dystopian version of the United States. In the award-winning series adapted from Margaret Atwood's 1985 book, that outcome is finally coming in a way, at least for viewers for now. When June says that "this is the beginning of the end" in the new trailer, ideally she means for the way of life that she's been forced to endure — but whatever happens, this specific Gilead story will wrap up.

"Now it's time for them to be afraid of us," June also states. For the show's protagonist and her fellow red-wearing women, revolution is coming. Rallying against the oppressive status quo however possible has sat at the heart of this series since day one — and in its last season, June is back waging war. As the initial teaser trailer for season six had June note, outlining the ways that the regime has tried to push her and her fellow women down, including via their restrictive attire, "the dress became a uniform — and we became an army".

If you haven't read The Testaments, and therefore have no idea where Atwood has guided her franchise on the page from here, it's set 15 years after the events of its predecessor and also includes familiar characters. How that'll play into the end of The Handmaid's Tale on-screen obviously hasn't been revealed.

Season six's plot will chart June's battle to take down Gilead, though, plus Luke (O-T Fagbenle, No Good Deed) and Moira (Samira Wiley, Breaking News in Yuba County) joining the resistance, Serena's (Yvonne Strahovski, Teacup) efforts to change Gilead, tests for Nick (Max Minghella, Maximum Truth), and reckonings for Commander Lawrence (Bradley Whitford, The Madness) and Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd, The Friend).

The sixth season of The Handmaid's Tale debuts on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. Down Under, it streams via SBS On Demand and Neon.

Praise be for what looks like one helluva last hurrah for the show. Madeline Brewer (Space Oddity), Amanda Brugel (Dark Matter), Sam Jaeger (Wolf Man) and Ever Carradine (The Neighbourhood) also all return among the cast, with Josh Charles (Moss' The Veil co-star) a new addition.

Check out the full trailer for The Handmaid's Tale season six below:

The Handmaid's Tale season six debuts on Tuesday, April 8, streaming Down Under via SBS On Demand and Neon.

Published on March 20, 2025 by Sarah Ward

In the Full Trailer for 'The Handmaid's Tale' Season Six, "Now It's Time for Them to Be Afraid of Us"