Lucy Halliday leads The Handmaid's Tale sequel The Testaments as Daisy, a teenager from Toronto, Canada who is working undercover inside Gilead as a pearl girl. The Hulu original picks up a few years after the end of The Handmaid's Tale, shifting the franchise from the original series ending into a new phase of the same power structure.
That move keeps the story inside the world Margaret Atwood built, but it also changes the audience's entry point: Daisy comes from outside Gilead while operating inside it, which gives the sequel a built-in split identity. In this story world, the Sons of Jacob have already bombed the capital, taken over the government in the United States, and formed Gilead, where women are separated into Wives, Handmaids, and Aunts.
Agnes MacKenzie and Daisy
Chase Infiniti plays Agnes MacKenzie, another central teenager in The Testaments, and the setup links the sequel directly to June Osborne's family line. The series keeps the focus on younger characters rather than treating the show as a simple extension of Elisabeth Moss's run, which gives Hulu a way to widen the franchise without discarding the original.
Daisy is also tied to the rebellion group Mayday, which was formed by refugees and survivors from the United States. That detail matters because the character is not just moving through Gilead; she is moving through it with an outside network behind her, even while she hides in plain sight as a pearl girl.
Pearl girl in Gilead
The pearl girl role is the sharpest example of how the sequel uses status and disguise as narrative machinery. Daisy being from Toronto, Canada and undercover inside Gilead gives the story a cross-border pressure point, while Becka Grove, played by Mattea Conforti, adds another young figure already marked by Gilead's rules because she has had her first period.
That structure turns The Testaments into more than a follow-on title. The series is building on the original's birth-rate collapse, but its real move is to show how Gilead's categories still shape every character's options years after the first story ended.
Few years later
The sequel's timeline is the cleanest business signal here: The Testaments is not a reboot, and it is not a detached spin-off. It is a direct continuation set a few years later, which means Hulu is using a known brand to extend the same world rather than resetting it.
For viewers, that means the main question is no longer whether Gilead exists; it does. The question now is how Daisy, Agnes MacKenzie, and the rebellion move through a system built to control women, and the answer will come from the sequel's own timeline rather than from the ending of The Handmaid's Tale.
