First look: The Handmaid's Tale season 2

Just days after scooping the award for best TV series at the Golden Globes and the Critics’ Choice Awards, fans have been teased with a trailer for Season 2 of The Handmaid’s Tale.

We can confirm this much: There will be blood.

Hulu’s dystopian drama is gearing up for its second run, and these first-look photos give us a glimpse of what’s next for Offred — played by Emmy winner Elisabeth Moss — and her fellow handmaids.

It seems there will be a lot of blood spilled this season as Elisabeth Moss returns as Offred. Source: Hulu
It seems there will be a lot of blood spilled this season as Elisabeth Moss returns as Offred. Source: Hulu
Fans catch a first glimpse at outside Gilead. Source: Hulu
Fans catch a first glimpse at outside Gilead. Source: Hulu

Last we saw Offred, she was pregnant and being hauled away in a Gilead van for defying Aunt Lydia’s orders... but from the looks of the photo above, which shows Offred drenched in blood and wearing a defiant stare, she’s not going away without a fight.

Season 2 will be as visually stunning as ever, as we see in the photo below, depicting what looks like a funeral, with the handmaids clad in stark black robes with red masks covering their faces:

We see a funeral for one of the handmaid's. Source: Hulu
We see a funeral for one of the handmaid's. Source: Hulu
The trailer release comes fresh off the back of their major award wins. Source: Getty
The trailer release comes fresh off the back of their major award wins. Source: Getty

Plus, Season 2 will take us to “the colonies,” the wasteland prison farm for those who don’t adhere to Gilead’s strict rules of conduct, and the photo below reveals the plantation-like atmosphere found there, with prisoners herded into a single line by stern men on horseback:

We’ll learn more when The Handmaid’s Tale returns for Season 2 in April on Hulu.

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