The Handmaid's Tale Podcast: The Testaments

What a thrill to once again talk to Bruce Miller, showrunner of The Testaments! His enthusiasm for the material is clear and infectious, and we hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did.

Among other things, Bruce talked about:

Why Gilead is terrified of teenage girls

Rowan Blanchard’s performance as Shunammite, and why he thinks viewers eventually came around on the character

Lydia’s motivations, including whether she really believed she was protecting the women of Gilead

The brutal stadium flashback, and the challenge of adapting such disturbing material without making viewers turn away

What Agnes remembers about her mother, and how Gilead may have manipulated the memories of stolen children

The cameos from Handmaid’s Tale characters, and whether he thinks more of The Handmaid’s Tale cast would want to return

The visual storytelling of the series, from production design and costumes to color and cinematography

Why we saw so little red this season

What it was like working with the remarkable young cast

Some intriguing hints about season two, including character backstories and a possible Gilead road trip

And a lot more!

Check out our other podcasts: If you like our coverage of The Testaments, we cover many other shows on our network at podcastica.com. 

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Another big batch of passionate, thoughtful, insightful messages from you guys. Praise be! It was a pleasure for us to go through these and respond, and think about The Testaments in new ways. We really made the right decision making these podcasts interactive, because you all really do add a lot.

As we mentioned on the podcast, there’s a chance (though not guaranteed) that we’ll be back soon with an interview with The Testaments showrunner Bruce Miller. Otherwise, we may or may not be in this feed before The Testaments season two, but we’ll definitely be back for that! 

In the meantime, here are some other podcasts of ours you might be interested in:


Dragon ‘Cast, where Wendy, Veronica, and Archmaester Renny cover HBO’s Game of Thrones follow-ups, House of the Dragon and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: https://podcastica.com/podcast/dragon-cast 


Yellowjackets wtf?, where Daphne, Wendy, Jason, and Penny cover the delightfully dark show, Yellowjackets: https://podcastica.com/podcast/yellowjackets-wtf 


Run for Your Lives, where Daphne and Pake cover all kinds of monster, disaster, and horror movies: https://podcastica.com/podcast/run-for-your-lives-podcast 


Wax Episodic, Jason’s main podcast, where he and various others cover top-tier shows like Severance, Pluribus, Fallout, Welcome to Derry, and Alien: Earth, with others to come: https://podcastica.com/podcast/wax-episodic 


Welcome to the White Lotus, where Jason, his wife Jenny, and their friend Randy cover The White Lotus: https://podcastica.com/podcast/welcome-to-the-white-lotus 


The Walking Dead ‘Cast, the one that started it all way back in 2010, where Jason, Lucy, and others cover The Last of Us, all the Walking Dead spinoffs, and our ep-by-ep Walking Dead rewatch: https://podcastica.com/podcast/walking-dead-cast 

Talk to you soon,

D, W, & J

P.S. If you want more conversation during the hiatus:

Come check out our Handmaid’s Tale: Mayday Facebook group, where we put up comment posts for each episode, at facebook.com/groups/thtmayday.

Or join our Discord where you can leave comments and chat with hosts and other listeners: https://discord.gg/6WUMt3m3qe 

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A moving, satisfying, bittersweet season finale where these girls who’ve spent the season waking up to how oppressed they and the women of Gilead have been decided to take a stand. We loved it, and we have a lot to talk about. 

A huge thank you to everyone who listened and who wrote or called in. It’s been a fantastic season of podcasting, and we really loved sharing the experience of this great new show with you guys! 

We’ve got one more episode left to go. We had intended on including all your feedback in this episode, but as we should’ve known, there’s more than enough for a standalone episode, so that should be out sometime next week. Talk to you then. 

Mentioned: 


Bruce Miller interviewed by The Hollywood Reporter: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/the-testaments-finale-creator-promises-june-hannah-reunion-1236606878/

Next up: Listener feedback for The Testaments S1E10 “Secateurs”. Let us know your thoughts!

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Daisy takes matters into her own hands. As does Becka. 

Next up: The Testaments S1E10 “Secateurs”. Let us know your thoughts!

You can email or send a voice message to [email protected].

Or check out our Handmaid’s Tale: Mayday Facebook group, where we put up comment posts for each episode, at facebook.com/groups/thtmayday.

Or join our Discord where you can leave comments and chat with hosts and other listeners: https://discord.gg/6WUMt3m3qe 

Check out our other podcasts: If you like our coverage of The Testaments, we cover many other shows on our network at podcastica.com. 

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We gathered up ALL your feedback from the last few episodes, and we’re responding. Your thoughts, theories, questions, and insights are so varied and well-considered, and absolutely add depth to the discussion about this show, so THANK YOU! Even to those of you writing in in disagreement with our style of podcasting, we appreciate you engaging in the conversation, too. 

Next up: The Testaments S1E9 “Marat Sade”. Let us know your thoughts!

You can email or send a voice message to ⁠[email protected]⁠.

Or check out our Handmaid’s Tale: Mayday Facebook group, where we put up comment posts for each episode, at ⁠facebook.com/groups/thtmayday⁠.

Or join our Discord where you can leave comments and chat with hosts and other listeners: ⁠https://discord.gg/6WUMt3m3qe⁠ 

Check out our other podcasts: If you like our coverage of The Testaments, we cover many other shows on our network at ⁠podcastica.com⁠. 

Digging our podcast? A quick, free, and easy way to show support and help bump us up in the charts is to give us a rating or a review:

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