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The Handmaid’s Tale: When is season 4 being released in the UK?
For fans of The Handmaid’s Tale, it’s been a long two-year wait for season 4, with the season 3finale airing in 2019.
However, while viewers in America have been able to watch the new episodes on Hulu, fans in the UK have had to hold on just a little bit longer.
In the official synopsis for the new season, it’s teased that protagonist June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) faces ‘unexpected and dangerous new challenges’, which threaten to ‘destroy her most cherished relationships’.
So when will season four air in the UK and what’s going to happen in the upcoming instalments?
When will The Handmaid’s Tale season 4 air in the UK?
While the new season of The Handmaid’s Tale has been airing in the US, UK fans have had to wait patiently.
Thankfully, there isn’t much longer to go for viewers in the UK, as the season is set to premiere on Sunday June 20 at 9pm on Channel 4.
Fans will finally be able to find out what June, her husband Luke (O-T Fagbenle) and her captors the Waterfords (Joseph Fiennes and Yvonne Strahovski) have been up to since we saw them last.
The episodes will come out on a weekly basis.
What will happen in season 4?
At the end of season three, June carried out a successful operation with the help of fellow Handmaids and Marthas to smuggle a large group of children out of Gilead on a plane into Canada.
However, June decided to stay behind to try and free her eldest daughter, Hannah.
In the official synopsis for the season released by Hulu, it states that the new season ‘picks up where we left off, with June’s fight for freedom against Gilead’.
However, as can be expected, there are obstacles that she needs to overcome, as the description states that ‘the risks she takes bring unexpected and dangerous new challenges, and her desire for justice and revenge threaten to consume her and destroy her most cherished relationships’.
It was never going to be a smooth ride.
Is there a trailer?
A teaser for The Handmaid’s Tale season four was released ahead of its launch in the US.
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While the trailer shows June fighting for justice in Gilead, women continue to be imprisoned and abused in the country’s terrible, dystopian conditions.
‘My name is June Osbourne. Mine is just one voice, countless others remain unheard,’ the lead character says.
‘Women imprisoned by men who can never be heard again. It is for those women, I ask for justice.’
The first three seasons of The Handmaid’s Tale are available to watch on Amazon Prime Video and on All 4.
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