Shows Like The Handmaid’s Tale to Watch While You Wait for The Final Season
After more than two years, The Handmaid’s Tale is finally returning with a new season. However, Season 6 will be its final season, set to premiere on April 8 with the first 3 episodes on Hulu.
In the final season, June’s (Elisabeth Moss) unyielding spirit and and determination pull her back into the fight to take down Gilead, while Luke (O-T Fagbenle) and Moira (Samira Wiley) join the resistance. Serena (Yvonne Strahovski) tries to reform Gilead while Commander Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) and Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) reckon with what they have wrought, and Nick faces challenging tests of character.
If you’re looking for similar shows to watch, we have 6 recommendations that all deal with oppression in some way and empowerment.
Here are 6 shows Like The Handmaid’s Tale to watch while you wait for the final season.
3% (2016-2020)
Cast: Bianca Comparato, Vaneza Oliveira, Rodolfo Valente, Zezé Motta, Fernanda Vasconcellos, Celso Frateschi, Cynthia Aparecida, Rafael Lozano, Bruno Fagundes, Laila Garin
Synopsis: “In the distant future, most of the population lives in poverty in an area known as the Inland. There is an elite group, though, that is chosen to live in a virtual paradise, the Offshore. Every year, each 20-year-old gets a chance to make it to the island paradise by taking a series of tests. Only three percent of the candidates succeed and qualify to leave the impoverished Inland area. One of the newest residents of the Offshore is Michele, a naive young woman with no family who has a strong sense of justice.”
Where to watch: Netflix (with subtitles or dubbed)
Alias Grace (2017 miniseries)
Cast: Sarah Gadon, Edward Holcroft, Anna Paquin, Rebecca Liddiard, Zachary Levi, Kerr Logan, David Cronenberg, Paul Gross
Synopsis: “Based on the 1996 Margaret Atwood novel of the same name, Alias Grace tells the story of young Grace Marks, a poor Irish immigrant and domestic servant in Upper Canada who is accused and convicted of the 1843 murder of her employer and his housekeeper.”
Where to watch: Netflix
Harlots (2017-2019)
Cast: Samantha Morton, Lesley Manville, Holli Dempsey, Jessica Brown Findlay, Eloise Smyth, Dorothy Atkinson, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Danny Sapani, Ellie Heydon
Synopsis: “Margaret Wells struggles to reconcile her roles as brothel owner and mother to daughters Charlotte and Lucy. When her business comes under attack from Lydia Quigley, a rival madam with a ruthless streak, Margaret must fight back even if it means losing her family and possibly her life.”
Where to watch: CBC Gem or BritBox (Canada), Hulu (US), Sky Go or U (UK), Stan (Australia)
Leila (2019)
Cast: Huma Qureshi, Siddharth, Rahul Khanna, Seema Biswas, Rahul Khanna, Sanjay Suri, Arif Zakaria, Ashwath Bhatt, Indu Sharma, Pallavi Batra
Synopsis: “In the forgotten margins of the segregated communities of a dystopian future, a woman searches for the daughter that she lost upon her arrest years ago.”
Where to watch: Netflix (with subtitles or dubbed)
The Man in the High Castle (2015-2019)
Cast: Rufus Sewell, Alexa Davalos, Luke Kleintank, Rupert Evans, Joel de la Fuente, Chelah Horsdal, Brennan Brown, DJ Qualls, Gracyn Shinyei, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Genea Charpentier, Arnold Chun
Synopsis: “Based on Philip K. Dick’s award-winning novel, and executive produced by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner), and Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files), The Man in the High Castle explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States.”
Where to watch: Prime Video
Orphan Black (2013-2017)
Cast: Tatiana Maslany, Dylan Bruce, Jordan Gavaris, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Kevin Hanchard, Kristian Bruun, Skyler Wexler, Evelyne Brochu, Josh Vokey, Ari Millen,
Synopsis: “A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.”
Where to watch: AMC+ or Spectrum (US), Crave or CTV (Canada), ITVX (UK), Stan (Australia)
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