• Hulu has renewed The Testaments for Season 2, one week before the Season 1 finale drops on May 27.
• The Handmaid’s Tale sequel has racked up over 45 million hours streamed globally on Hulu and Disney+.
• Viewership grew 76% from the premiere to episode 8, based on first-day views.
• Chase Infiniti stars as Agnes, with Ann Dowd returning as Aunt Lydia and Elisabeth Moss making a surprise guest appearance as June Osborn.
• No premiere date for Season 2 has been announced yet.

Gilead isn’t done with us yet. Hulu has officially renewed The Testaments for a second season, the streamer confirmed Wednesday — and the timing couldn’t be more dramatic. The pickup lands just one week before the Season 1 finale drops on May 27, and just hours after the season’s penultimate episode became available to stream.

“A secret we couldn’t keep any longer,” read the caption on the show’s Instagram reveal. “‘The Testaments’ will be back for Season 2 on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.”

The news shouldn’t come as a total shock. According to Deadline, the show has been on a genuine growth trajectory — not just holding steady, but actually building. Episode 4 saw a 20% viewership bump over the premiere after just one day of streaming. By episode 8, that number had climbed to 76% above where the show started. The series has now accumulated over 45 million hours streamed globally across Hulu and Disney+, and the season isn’t even finished yet. It’s also sitting at a Certified Fresh 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.

What The Testaments Is — and Why It’s Clicking

The Testaments, which debuted April 8 with three episodes, is based on Margaret Atwood’s Booker Prize-winning 2019 novel and serves as a sequel to the Emmy-winning The Handmaid’s Tale. Where that series centered on Elisabeth Moss’s June Osborn and her harrowing existence as a handmaid, this one shifts the lens to the next generation — specifically two teenage girls navigating life inside Gilead’s gilded cage.

Chase Infiniti plays Agnes, a young woman raised entirely within the regime, dutiful and pious and dressed in the purple robes of a future Commander’s wife. Lucy Halliday plays Daisy, an American who crosses into Gilead as a spy and must take on the white robes of a Pearl Girl — an outsider convert. As they move through Aunt Lydia’s elite preparatory school for future wives, where obedience is enforced with brutal divine justification, their bond quietly becomes something that could shake Gilead to its foundation.

Ann Dowd is back as Aunt Lydia, the morally complex enforcer who has become one of the most fascinating characters in this entire universe. And in what turned out to be a genuine surprise for viewers, Elisabeth Moss returned for a guest appearance, reprising her role as June Osborn — a moment that connected the two series in exactly the way fans were hoping for.

The show’s pacing has been deliberately measured. As MovieWeb’s Christine Persaud noted in her Season 1 review, “There are shocking moments that reinforce the same horrors we saw in The Handmaid’s Tale. But this is mostly traded for backstory context, restrained nuance, and setup for action that is sure to come with a second season.” That’s not a criticism so much as a description of the show’s strategy — it’s building something, and the audience has been patient enough to follow.

Part of what makes the storytelling feel so different from its predecessor is the perspective. Agnes has grown up inside Gilead. She doesn’t experience it as a horror — it’s simply the world she knows. That gap between what the audience understands and what Agnes herself understands creates a particular kind of tension, one that’s quieter than June’s fury but no less unsettling.

The Star Power Behind the Show’s Breakout Moment

Chase Infiniti’s casting brought with it an unexpected wave of attention. The show premiered on April 8, just a couple of weeks after the end of an awards season in which Infiniti went from a relative unknown to an award-winning movie star for her work in One Battle After Another. That kind of momentum is rare, and Hulu clearly benefited from the timing.

Behind the camera, The Testaments is in familiar hands. Bruce Miller, who created The Handmaid’s Tale for television, adapted Atwood’s novel and serves as showrunner. Elisabeth Moss is among the executive producers alongside Warren Littlefield, Steve Stark, Shana Stein, Maya Goldsmith, John Weber, Sheila Hockin, Daniel Wilson, Fran Sears, and Mike Barker, who directed the first three episodes and the finale. The series is produced by MGM Television and 20th Television.

The full ensemble also includes Mabel Li, Amy Seimetz, Brad Alexander, Rowan Blanchard, Mattea Conforti, Zarrin Darnell-Martin, Eva Foote, Isolde Ardies, Shechinah Mpumlwana, Birva Pandya, and Kira Guloien.

No premiere date for Season 2 has been set, and production timing hasn’t been announced. The Season 1 finale streams May 27 on Hulu and Disney+ — and based on the way this show has been building, it sounds like it’s going to leave plenty to look forward to.

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• A source close to Chase Infiniti confirms she and Tyriq Withers are dating and she’s “in a really good place.”
• The two breakout stars have been spotted together repeatedly since October 2025, from awards season to Coachella to the F1 Grand Prix.
• Kerry Washington has been credited — by Infiniti herself — with pulling the pair together.
• Infiniti starred in Oscar Best Picture winner One Battle After Another; Withers had multiple major roles in 2025.
• Withers described himself as “very much intimately single” as recently as March, but called himself a “loverboy” at heart.

The internet manifested this one, and it actually worked. Chase Infiniti and Tyriq Withers are officially dating, a source close to the One Battle After Another actress confirmed to People on Friday — capping off months of speculation, fan theories, and some very pointed social media shipping.

“Chase is having fun and dating,” the insider said. “She’s in a really good place and enjoying herself like any young woman.”

The confirmation also comes after DeuxMoi posted photos of the pair on what appeared to be a low-key dinner date at Mamo restaurant in New York City. At this point, the only people who seemed surprised were the ones not paying attention.

From Strangers to Hollywood’s New Favorite Couple

Chase, 26, and Tyriq, 27, were both relative unknowns before 2025 changed everything for them. Infiniti broke through in One Battle After Another — the Paul Thomas Anderson epic that went on to win six Oscars including Best Picture — playing Leonardo DiCaprio’s daughter in a role that earned her serious awards buzz. Withers, meanwhile, had a banner year with roles in the I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot, the horror film Him, and the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s beloved novel Reminders of Him.

As their careers exploded in parallel, so did their orbit around each other.

Their first documented moment together came at the Academy Museum Gala in October 2025, when Withers posted a selfie with Infiniti to his Instagram grid. From there, they kept showing up at the same places — W Magazine’s Best Performances Party at Chateau Marmont in January, the NAACP Image Awards in February, Coachella in April (fans clocked that they were both pulled onstage during PinkPantheress’ set, even if neither posted about the other).

The NAACP moment became its own thing entirely. A fan-cast had gone viral imagining the two as the children of Scandal characters Olivia and Fitz, so when they ran into Kerry Washington at the ceremony, they made sure to get a photo — and then reportedly Photoshopped Tony Goldwyn in to complete the bit. The internet absolutely lost it.

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Replying to @Lele ✨ The Pope-Grant children causing a rukus in DC in an 10 episode limited series? Put me in that writer’s room. #scandal #olitz #chaseinfiniti #tyriqwithers #shondaland

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“The Internet Is the Internet”

By the time awards season hit its peak, rumors via DeuxMoi were calling their relationship “an open secret” among people in their circle. But when Infiniti was asked point-blank about it on the Oscars red carpet in March, she kept things light.

“The internet is the internet. I don’t know,” she told Entertainment Tonight with a laugh, while acknowledging that Withers is “very nice” and that the two had been “pulled together” by Washington. “We’ve just been seeing each other so frequently,” she added.

Withers, for his part, was playing it cool too. In a March interview with Cosmopolitan, he described himself as “very much intimately single” — but didn’t exactly sound like someone who wanted to stay that way. “I yearn — and that is my superpower but also my biggest flaw. I am a loverboy,” he told the magazine. He also went on The Jennifer Hudson Show that same month and reiterated the single status.

@jenniferhudsonshow

Is @tyriqwithers taken or single??? 👀

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Then May arrived and any remaining ambiguity evaporated. The two showed up together at the F1 Grand Prix in Miami on May 3, visiting Audi’s Formula 1 team garage ahead of the race — both have partnerships with the brand. A few days later, they were photographed cuddled up at GQ’s official Met Gala after-party on May 4, which Infiniti cohosted alongside F1 actor Damson Idris, LISA from Blackpink, and American Love Story‘s Paul Anthony Kelly.

And before all of that, Withers had quietly shown up to the premiere of Infiniti’s Hulu series The Testaments back in March. That’s a boyfriend move if there ever was one.

Kerry Washington, who has been the unofficial architect of this whole romance, posted a selfie with the duo at the NAACP Image Awards back in February — and Infiniti has been more than happy to give her credit. “I could credit it all to Kerry Washington,” she told ET. “She’s been pulling us together.”

As for what DiCaprio — who worked closely with Infiniti on the film that launched her career — might think of all this, Infiniti has spoken warmly about his influence on her. “I think one of the best pieces of advice I got was honestly just watching him on set and watching his gentle leadership and just complete kindness,” she told Page Six earlier this year. “I think that’s something I will cherish and take forward with me for the rest of my life.”

The fans who’ve been rooting for these two since that first Academy Museum Gala selfie? They called it months ago. Turns out the loverboy found his match.

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