The Handmaid’s Tale with Amanda Brugel
Rogue Energy
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3 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
It’s the final and sixth season of the wildly popular Hulu Series that so many of us are obsessed with! Set in the fictional- yet sometimes eerily parallel - community that has taken over the United States where women are property of the state. Everyone’s favorite “Martha” Amanda Brugel joins us to talk everything Handmaid’s Tale - from the incredible story of how she got the role, to what we can expect this season - Brugel says it’s a love letter to fans. We hope you enjoy this interview as much as we did!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Amy and T.J. And we are very excited about this edition of our podcast because it is |
| 0:10.5 | season six, the final season of Handmaid's Tale. Every woman I know is obsessed with it. We have |
| 0:17.4 | discussions about each episode after they're over. And wow, this season has already |
| 0:22.9 | begun with a bang. But I want to make sure everyone knows who's listening. We are not going to |
| 0:26.7 | give away any spoilers in case you haven't started the new season yet. But the first three episodes |
| 0:32.1 | dropped on April 8th. And then there are new episodes that roll out every Tuesday. So this is |
| 0:37.3 | exciting. It only gets sad when |
| 0:39.4 | they're all gone. So we still have so many more to consume and so many plot lines to follow. |
| 0:44.8 | And we're going to assume that if you're already listening to this episode, you're likely a fan |
| 0:50.0 | of Handmaid's Tale. But if you don't know its premise, let me give you just a quick synopsis. |
| 0:56.5 | The series is set in a fictional community, we can call it that, called Gilead. It's a society |
| 1:02.4 | that has basically taken over the United States after an environmental disaster has left |
| 1:07.9 | most women unable to have children. So it takes the few remaining fertile women and forces |
| 1:13.5 | them into sexual servitude to have children for childless couples. Essentially, women are property |
| 1:20.4 | of Gilead. And we have one of the stars from Handmaid's Tale with us. She plays Rita, who at the beginning of the series, |
| 1:28.3 | plays a Martha, which is basically a maid or a domestic worker for these Gilead families. |
| 1:34.6 | And she is the Martha for a very prominent Gilead family. And I want to say here that T.J. |
| 1:41.6 | wanted to be with us on this podcast, but he's feeling a bit under the weather. |
| 1:45.5 | So he sends his regards because he was very excited as well to be talking to the one and only |
| 1:50.9 | Amanda Bruegel. So Amanda, thank you for coming on the podcast and thank you for talking with us. |
| 1:56.2 | I'm so excited to have you on. You're welcome. I'm so excited to meet you and to discuss all that is |
| 2:02.3 | teammates. Wow. I mean, do you have these same conversations with your girlfriends, even though |
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