Alexis Bledel will return to “The Handmaid’s Tale” as a Season 2 series regular, and praise be
Blessed be the fruit! Not only are we getting more episodes of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, but we also just found out that Alexis Bledel will return as a Season 2 regular. Although this means things probably won’t be going well for her character, this is amazing news for fans.
In Season 1, Bledel only appears in a handful of episodes as Ofglen/Emily and is imprisoned and punished for a same-sex relationship. (Yeah, it’s a dark show.) Once Season 2 was announced, we were all wondering if the Gilmore Girls alum would return to Gilead.
Luckily, Bledel is not only returning for Season 2 of The Handmaid’s Tale, but she’s also been upped from guest star to series regular.
.@alexisbledel will walk with us as Emily for a second season. https://t.co/KcUZWJMHuX #HandmaidsTale
— The Handmaid's Tale (@HandmaidsOnHulu) June 22, 2017
No surprise, it seems like fans are pretty excited about the news, and agree that Bledel did an awesome job in Season 1:
Alexis Bledel, who did the best work of her career in #TheHandmaidsTale, will return as a series regular in Season 2 pic.twitter.com/cVYMBJHh3l
— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) June 22, 2017
watching #HandmaidsTale & wanna say how impressed I am by Alexis Bledel .She's a scene stealer. I mean WOW. Her eyes tell everything pic.twitter.com/gv7kBSHiOS
— Yota (@giota_sk) June 19, 2017
.@alexisbledel in @HandmaidsOnHulu is so so so so so so good.
— Kalhan (@KalhanR) June 20, 2017
Holy moly The Handmaids Tale is good. Alexis Bledel didn't say a word and she was incredible. Like a female Wall-E.
— Jack Faulkner (@jackfaulkner) June 11, 2017
https://twitter.com/udfredirect/status/875076709409845249
i am obsessed with gilmore girls but alexis bledel is really amazing in the handmaids tale,, it's the role she was born to play
— 𝖘𝖚𝖟𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖊 🦇🖤 (@asvpsuzie) June 1, 2017
Who knows what will happen in Gilead next season, which will be 13 episodes rather than 10. And since the show has veered away from the book in many ways, it’s difficult to predict the future of Bledel’s character (but we’ll keep theorizing all summer long anyway).
Season 2 of The Handmaid’s Tale will begin shooting this fall and will be available to stream sometime in 2018. Until then: May the Lord open.
