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    'The Handmaid's Tale' showrunner promises 'real hope and victory' from surprising places in Season 2

    by Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times Jan 19, 2018 6 minutes

    PASADENA, Calif. - Season 2 of "The Handmaid's Tale" may be moving past the narrative of the book on which it is based, but that won't prevent it from delving deeper into its dystopian setting.

    The Hulu drama, adapted from the 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood, will return on April 25. Viewers can expect to learn more about the historical events that led to the creation of Gilead and venture to the not-previously-shown Colonies, the badlands outside Gilead where prisoners essentially go to die.

    Executive producers Bruce Miller and Warren Littlefield said as much when they gathered Sunday - along with star Elisabeth Moss (June/Offred) - at the Television Critics Assn. press tour in Pasadena to discuss the new season in broad, nonspoilery terms.

    The series is set in a near future in which the U.S., amid falling birthrates, has been seized by a theocratic regime unfavorable to women's rights. Moss plays a still-fertile woman separated from her family

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