‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 2: Everything we know so far

When audiences last saw Elisabeth Moss’ Offred — aka June — in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” she was being taken away from the Commander’s home in the back of a van in the Season 1 finale, her future unclear. While she questioned if she could trust Nick (Max Minghella), Moira (Samira Wiley) successfully escaped to Canada and the handmaids refused to punish Janine (Madeline Brewer) for attempting suicide.

Ahead of the show’s second season premiere Wednesday on Hulu, here’s everything we know about the new season of the drama so far from the “Handmaid’s Tale” trailer, photos and interviews. Nick’s child at the end of Season 1, and “so much of this season is about motherhood,” Moss revealed during the show’s Television Critics Association panel in January. “We’ve talked a lot about the impending birth of the child that’s growing inside of her as a bit of a ticking time bomb; the complications are really wonderful to explore. She does have the baby, but it gets taken away from her. She can’t be its mother. It makes for good drama.” Offred is also on the run, trying to escape the life of a handmaid. particular, he said, it will explore “what happened to the press” and visit The Boston Globe, along with a continuation of flashbacks to show America leading up to the revolution.

At PaleyFest, Miller revealed that as Offred/June prepares to become a mother for the second time, the show will introduce her own mother, played by Cherry Jones. He said June was a “single child of a single mother” who thought her mom had old-fashioned ideas of feminism.