Two very totally different however fan-favorite collection have simply been ordered by Hulu and Paramount+: the previous has commissioned The Testaments, a follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale, and Paramount has commissioned a second season of the Dexter spin-off Dexter: Original Sin.
Production of The Testaments will start this week on April 7 however there are not any dates for Original Sin simply but.
What do we all know up to now about The Testaments?
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Based as soon as once more on the books by Margaret Atwood, The Testaments takes place 15 years after The Handmaid’s Tale within the bleak theocracy of Gilead.
Elisabeth Moss is government producing, and Deadline says that the hope is for her to visitor star within the sequel by reprising her function as June Osborne.
That’s not assured, although. The Handmaid’s Tale begins its last season on April 8, and the story that tells might or might not make it inconceivable for June to return.
The new drama is a coming-of-age story centred on a brand new technology of younger Gilead girls. In addition to the principal solid of Chase Infiniti as Agnes, Lucy Halliday as Daisy, Ann Dowd as Aunt Lydia, Rowan Blanchard as Shunammite and Mattea Conforti as Becka, it additionally introduces 9 new actors: Mabel Li, Amy Seimetz, Brad Alexander, Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Eva Foote, Isolde Ardies, Shechinah Mpumlwana, Birva Pandya, and Kira Guloien.
These younger girls have by no means recognized life earlier than Gilead, and the present follows their battle to seek out freedom.
Expectations are actually excessive for this collection: The Handmaid’s Tale seasons 1-5 have been glorious and critiques for the e book The Testaments have been glowing. Writing in The Guardian, Anne Enright mentioned “The Testaments is Atwood at her finest… to learn this e book is to really feel the world turning”.
What do we all know up to now about Dexter: Original Sin season 2?
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Dexter: Original Sin is not fairly so literary and it is so much much less dystopian. As with the primary season it stars Patrick Gibson because the titular killer in his late teen years, with occasions going down roughly 15 years earlier than the unique collection begins.
Season 1 was set in 1991 Miami the place Dexter is refining his slaying abilities with the assistance of adoptive dad Harry, performed by Christian Slater. Harry teaches him a killing code and the way to keep away from being caught by the cops – which turns out to be useful as Dexter hsa simply began interning on the Miami Metro PD.
Although the present has attracted pretty middling critiques it was Showtime‘s most-streamed collection in 10 years so a sequel was extremely doubtless.
If you have already loved season one and might’t watch for the writers to complete your subsequent Dexter repair, you’ll be able to stream Dexter: New Blood, starring Michael C Hall, on Paramount+within the US, UK and Australia. The unique Dexter is on Netflix within the US and UK.
