<P> The first three episodes of the series premiered on April 26, 2017; the subsequent seven episodes aired on a weekly basis every Wednesday . In May 2017, the series was renewed for a second season which premiered on April 25, 2018 . </P> <P> The Handmaid's Tale has received widespread critical acclaim and its first season won eight Primetime Emmy Awards from thirteen nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series, becoming the first series on a streaming service to win an Emmy for Outstanding Series . It also won Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series--Drama and Best Actress for Elisabeth Moss . </P> <P> In May 2018, Hulu announced that the series had been renewed for a third season . </P> <P> In the near future, fertility rates collapse as a result of sexually transmitted diseases and environmental pollution . With this chaos, the totalitarian, theonomic government of "Gilead" establishes rule in the former United States in the aftermath of a civil war . Society is organized by power - hungry leaders along with a new, militarized, hierarchical regime of fanaticism and newly created social classes, in which women are brutally subjugated, and by law are not allowed to work, own property, handle money, or read . </P>

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