The Testaments’ Major Handmaid’s Tale Cameo Officially Explained by Creator

Image via Hulu The Testaments takes place around four years after The Handmaid’s Tale‘s ending, but that doesn’t mean a few familiar faces don’t appear. At least one of them is crucial to the story: Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) is still in Gilead, now running a preparatory school that the Plums attend before they’re married off to Commanders. []