‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 3 To Premiere This June
Hulu is blessing us withThe Handmaid’s Taleseason 3 premiere date. The streaming service announcedThe Handmaid’s Talewill be returning with three new episodes in June 2019, with subsequent episodes released every Wednesday. But while this season premiere date is blessedly not too far away, it does mean that the third season ofThe Handmaid’s Talewill not be in contention for the 2019 Emmy Awards.
Deadlinereports that Hulu has setThe Handmaid’s Taleseason 3 premiere date forJune 5, 2019. The streaming service announced the series return at the TCA, where Hulu SVP of Originals Craig Erwich explained the decision to delay the show’s season 3 premiere.
“We wanted to give the show as much time as possible to maintain the quality,” Erwich said. He added that he has seen the first two episodes of the upcoming season, and they are “spectacular.”
As spectacular as they are, they won’t be getting any awards recognition in 2019.The Handmaid’s Talewill be absent from this year’s Emmy’s because the season 3 premiere date has pushed the series past the eligibility date for the 2019 Primetime Awards. But that doesn’t seem to matter much to Hulu, which earned accolades for the first season ofThe Handmaid’s Tale, though last year they saw their star eclipsed by Netflix and Amazon at the2018 Emmys.
The second season ofThe Handmaid’s Talewas a drastic downgrade from season 1, taking the series on a bleak and torturous narrative arc that mostlyspun its wheels. The third season — which debuted a promising firstteaserduring the Super Bowl — takes the series even further beyond the events of Margaret Atwood’s novel, following June (Elisabeth Moss) as she gathers resistance against the dystopian regime of Gilead. The 13-episode season “will force all characters to take a stand, guided by one defiant prayer: ‘Blessed be the fight,'” according to Deadline. Hopefully the upcoming season will be an upgrade from the slog that was season 2.
The Handmaid’s Taleseason 3 premieres on Hulu on Wednesday,August 04, 2025.
