Oh dear - I think other posters may be right about 10 series, though hopefully it’s just swagger
How many seasons of The Handmaid's Tale will there be?
So, how many seasons of The Handmaid's Tale will there be? According to Hulu CEO Randy Freer, maybe up to 10 seasons.
In an interview with Variety last week, Freer said, that The Handmaid's Tale series' "creative process will determine" if there are more seasons to come.
"And I think that’s one of the benefits for creators in the streaming world — shows can take a natural progression, they can live for as long as they should live or they can end," Freer continued. "I think it’s unfair sometimes in the characterization of broadcast television that we talk about a show’s been canceled after four years or seven years, whatever it is… Look, I hope, as success goes, there’s 10 seasons of The Handmaid's Tale."
In fact, this isn’t the first time executives toyed with the idea of 10 seasons. Showrunner Bruce Miller even told The Hollywood Reporter back in January, "I roughed it out to about 10 seasons when I was first working on it," though he added that they’re "not going beyond" the Margaret Atwood’s novel on which it’s based.
Could The Handmaid's Tale series last for 10 whole seasons?
So, if Freer and Miller had it their way, the series would extend beyond a Handmaid's Tale season 3. But does the Hulu original have enough juice to last for 10 seasons?
Caroline Crampton, co-host of the pop culture podcast SRSLY, told BBC that she was "barely on board with" the second season.
"I think they've lost the reason why people loved the first series and indeed loved the book — it had this very well-constructed narrative arc," she said. "When it got to the natural ending point of that person's story, it stopped." From a "quality point of view," she doesn’t think it makes sense to extend the series.