Hulu's adaptation of The Testaments will differ from the book since The Handmaid's Tale show explores June's journey beyond the novel's ending. From Aunt Lydia's moral gray areas to the identities of The Testaments' other narrators, Hulu's Handmaid's Tale adaptation has already "spoiled" certain reveals. The Testaments could lead to a more tragic ending for June in The Handmaid's Tale season 6.

A sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, Hulu's adaptation of The Testaments will definitely differ from Margaret Atwood's book of the same name. Although Atwood wrote The Handmaid's Tale novel in 1985, she didn't pen a sequel to the dystopian classic until 2019 several seasons into Hulu's Emmy-winning Handmaid's Tale adaptation. As a result, The Handmaid's Tale show pushes beyond the boundaries of Atwood's book, which ends with a maybe-pregnant June (Elisabeth Moss) clambering into a van that's maybe headed toward Canada. As of The Handmaid's Tale season 5's ending,...