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The Handmaid's Tale's sequel arrives with similarly eerie timing

The Testaments stars Lucy Halliday as Daisy, Ann Dowd as Aunt Lydia and Chase Infiniti as Agnes. (Supplied: Disney+)

In the halls of Aunt Lydia's premarital preparatory academy, young teens Agnes and Daisy will form a bond that will up-end their past, present and future.

That's the premise of the new television series The Testaments, based on Canadian author Margaret Atwood's novel of the same name, a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale.

While The Handmaid's Tale was about the totalitarian regime of Gilead, which stripped women of their rights during a global fertility crisis, the sequel focuses on the young women being groomed for marriage in Gilead at the elite preparatory school.

The Testaments review – brace yourself for a bloody sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale

Don’t be fooled by the lighter tone of Margaret Atwood’s follow-on. June’s daughter is now grown up in Gilead, where daily horrors are still in full swing – and Aunt Lydia is back

I had to give up on the TV adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale quite early on – the mass mock execution scene did for me – because it was too relentlessly bleak, too full of dread, too awful, too true. Margaret Atwood’s future-dystopia tale, published in 1985, drew on nothing that had not already occurred in totalitarian and tyrannical regimes around the world. Translated to the screen, the visceral terror of it all was almost too much from the very beginning.

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The trouble with Agnes MacKenzie narrating a TV series about the political antipathy that begets authoritarianism is that she has nothing to say on the matter. It’s not her fault. She’s scarcely older than Gilead, the country that has restricted her formal education to embroidery and the Old Testament. Even on the narrow subject of Agnes MacKenzie herself, Agnes confesses that she’s no expert. She doesn’t know her own age or what her new period is doing to her body. She doesn’t know the identity of her own mother.

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