Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments spinoff is set in the Republic of Gilead — but is it a real place?
Based on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the same name, The Handmaid’s Tale, which aired from 2017 to 2025, took place in a dystopian future where low fertility rates led women to be assigned to men for bearing children.
The series starred Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Madeline Brewer, Ann Dowd, O-T Fagbenle, Max Minghella, Samira Wiley and Amanda Brugel. On screen, the show explained Gilead as an area formed following a Second American Civil War.
The Republic of Gilead covered part...
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