In particular, Fred's (Joseph Fiennes) death in No-Man's Land at the hands of the Handmaids is a key event that will accelerate the ending of the series.

Why The Handmaid's Tale Season 5 Should Be The Lastĭespite pacing issues across much of season 3, The Handmaid's Tale's narrative has finally built to a head after the ending of season 4.

Here's why The Handmaid's Tale needs to end with season 5 and how it is set up. The announcement that it will be set up by The Handmaid's Tale's final events further hastens the need for a clean transition out of the series. After moving in circles with its narrative for too long, season 4's ending finally set The Handmaid's Tale up for a worthy climax to the series. To do justice to Atwood's original vision, The Handmaid's Tale must end with season 5. Related: Handmaid's Tale Season 4 Finale Supports Serena & Mark Affair Theory Set 15 years after The Handmaid's Tale, this new narrative moves away from Offred's heroics, instead choosing to tell the story from the point of view of three different characters. These will be Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd in the Hulu series), a young girl named Agnes, and a Canadian woman called Daisy, who will all expound on the state of Gilead and the wider world.

While critical reception has dwindled, The Handmaid's Tale continues to be a streaming success, meaning Hulu has also purchased the rights to Atwood's 2019 sequel, The Testaments. Based on the 1985 novel of the same name, The Handmaid's Tale season 5 will expand further on Margaret Atwood's original dystopian narrative, still centered around renegade Handmaid June/Offred (Elisabeth Moss). The showrunners announced in August 2021 that The Handmaid's Tale team is discussing ending June's story, with the distinct possibility that season 5 could be its last. Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale is well set up to end after season 5, with the series dogged by increasingly varied critical reception to a stale and cyclical plot.

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