'The Handmaid's Tale' Season 2 teaser is done playing games

Offred – June – is done with your shit.
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'The Handmaid's Tale' Season 2 teaser is done playing games
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The Handmaid's Tale just served up an International Women's Day teaser of Offred and her sisters fighting back. After a first season that explored women losing all their agency, Season 2 shows shows the women of Gilead refusing to be oppressed any longer.

The teaser is mostly a few flashes of footage and imagery – including Offred in front of a noose and a weeping Moira (Samira Wiley) – narrated with the emotionless cadence Elisabeth Moss perfected as Offred. She lists the requirements of the handmaid like commandments: "Wear the red dress, wear the wings," and eventually, "Shut your mouth, be a good girl, roll over and spread your legs, yes ma'am, may the lord open."

And then the teaser ends with a burst of frustration: "Seriously, what the actual f–"

The Handmaid's Tale Season 2 premieres April 25 on Hulu.

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Proma Khosla

Proma Khosla is a Senior Entertainment Reporter writing about all things TV, from ranking Bridgerton crushes to composer interviews and leading Mashable's stateside coverage of Bollywood and South Asian representation. You might also catch her hosting video explainers or on Mashable's TikTok and Reels, or tweeting silly thoughts from @promawhatup.


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