A Handmaid's Tale Series Refresher, and Our Season 6 Predictions

Eyes On Gilead: A Handmaid's Tale Podcast

SBS Audio

The Handmaid's Tale, Tv & Film, Podcast, Podcasts, Tv Shows, After Shows, Sbs

4.7 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

As we count down the days until the final season of The Handmaid’s Tale, the Eyes On Gilead team is here with an essential Handmaid’s Tale refresher. Don't remember everything that has happened across the five seasons? Don't worry! Our essential recap will make sure that you can pick up we left off 2.5 years ago (!), when season 6 premieres exclusively in Australia on SBS On Demand on Tuesday 8 April. Fiona has rewatched the entire series from the beginning, and she leads Haidee, Natalie and Sana through a lively recollection of the biggest moments from the past seasons. What have we forgotten? Where did we leave things? And who was "skivvy man" again? Plus, we end with BIG predictions about what might unfold in the epic final season. Will we get one right this time? This is the recap you need for the show you love, as it enters its final season. Let’s get into it.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Eyes on Gilead, an SBS podcast dedicated to The Handmaid's Tale.
0:13.1	There is a lot going on in this show, and we think it helps to talk it out.
0:17.3	And with new episodes of The Handmaid's Tale on the way, we think it helps to prepare ourselves for this epic final season.
0:24.7	But as it's the final season, we thought it good to regroup and look back across the years to some of the key moments and especially the character moments as the season kicks off, where we find them as we approach season six.
0:36.5	And do stick around because we're going to have some massive predictions about how we want
0:40.4	this show to end.
0:44.2	I'm Fiona Williams and I'm head of curation at SBS On Demand.
0:48.5	And we have been sent good weather because I am joined once again by my colleagues and fellow resistors.
0:56.1	Pady Island, channel manager of SBS on demand.
0:58.9	Hello.
1:00.1	Sana Khadar, host of ABC's All In The Mind.
1:02.8	Hi.
1:03.7	And Natalie Handley, gemologist.
1:06.1	Hi there.
1:07.4	Hello.
1:08.7	Swap journalism for gemology.
1:10.5	I have. A whole retrain. It has been two years, guys.
1:14.4	Way more sparkly career. Journalism. Blessed day, ladies. It has been two and a half years, as you
1:21.7	note, Nat, since we last had an episode of The Handmaid's Tale. And look, this show premiered in
1:27.4	2017. Eight years ago.
1:30.7	And of course, there's been staggered seasons and delays because of COVID.
1:35.1	Let's not talk about that.
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