Chase Infiniti and Elisabeth Moss on the Thrilling Season Finale of ‘The Testaments’—and What’s Coming in Season 2

Reported by Vogue.

When Hulu's The Testaments dropped its season finale last week, it wasn't wrapping up a standard teen drama. It was closing out ten episodes set inside a Gilead preparatory academy — run by Ann Dowd's Aunt Lydia — that culminated in a girl murdering her own father. For a show adapted from Margaret Atwood's 2019 novel, the debut season made a deliberate choice: center the story not on survival after loss, but on the moment just before everything is taken away.

According to Vogue, star Chase Infiniti — who plays 14-year-old Agnes — sees that distinction as the show's defining edge. Her character hasn't lost anything yet when we meet her, which sets The Testaments apart from The Handmaid's Tale's devastated, retrospective grief. "The special thing, to me, is the sisterhood — the friendship that these girls have and how strong it is even though it's not allowed," Infiniti says. Alongside co-star Lucy Halliday, who plays Daisy, a Toronto teenager embedded in the academy as a Mayday operative, Infiniti anchors a story about young women whose bonds are the actual act of resistance.

Lighting a New Fire

Elisabeth Moss, who spent nearly a decade starring in, producing, and eventually directing The Handmaid's Tale, came onto The Testaments almost immediately after the original series wrapped its sixth and final season. As executive producer, her mandate was clear: make it feel like its own thing. That meant pulling back on the graphic brutality the flagship series became known for — a deliberate move she pushed hard for. "We've seen a lot of that," Moss says. "I really wanted to give the audience something new." The violence in The Testaments still exists, but it's quieter, more interior — and more often delivered by the girls themselves.

Moss kept a low profile throughout the season, even her cameos kept secret, while simultaneously filming Apple TV+'s Imperfect Women. The restraint was intentional. "It would have been disingenuous to sell it as the continuation of June's story," she says, "because that's not what the show is." When asked how she felt about Infiniti and Halliday carrying the franchise forward, her answer was precise: "I didn't want them to carry the torch. I wanted them to light a new one." For 26-year-old Infiniti — who has credits alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another and Ruth Negga and Jake Gyllenhaal in Presumed Innocent — leading a show that was renewed ahead of its finale is a significant next chapter. Agnes's arc from Gilead's pampered insider to its most dangerous young insurgent, including the season's biggest reveal — that June is her biological mother — gives Season 2 an emotionally charged foundation.

Moss is being deliberately cagey about whether June returns, but she couldn't quite contain herself: "I just can't wait to see her discover how she truly is her mother's daughter." The fire, it seems, is already burning — The Testaments is done borrowing from what came before, and that's exactly the point.

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