The Handmaid's Tale Season 6 Episode 6: Release date news, time, streaming details, and more

Elizabeth Moss in The Handmaid
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The Handmaid's Tale is back with June's story for the last time in season 6, which premiered on April 8, 2025. Season 6 of the show will see Elisabeth Moss’s June and her friends finally fighting to take down Gilead, in this intense last stretch of her story.

In the previous episode, June and her best friend, Samira Wiley’s Moira, begin their mission to take down Gilead with Janine’s help, but they also encounter some trouble. Meanwhile, Serena and Commander Wharton get ready for a new start in their lives.

The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 Episode 6 will be available to stream on April 29, 2025. It will be available to stream at midnight ET, only on Hulu.

More on this in our story.


When will The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 Episode 6 be available to watch? Details on release date, time, and streaming

As mentioned, the upcoming episode of The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6, titled Surprise, will be available to stream on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. You can watch the episode at midnight ET or on Monday, April 28, 2025, at 9 p.m. PT. However, the episode will drop at different times in different time zones. The premiere time of Season 6 Episode 6 for different time zones is as follows:

Central Time (CT)11:00 PMApril 28, 2025
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)4:00 AMApril 29, 2025
India Standard Time (IST)9:30 AMApril 29, 2025
China Standard Time (CST) 12:00 PM (Noon) April 29, 2025
Japan Standard Time (JST) 1:00 PM April 29, 2025
Australian Eastern Time (AET) 2:00 PM April 29, 2025

You can stream the new episode of The Handmaid's Tale along with the other 5 episodes of the series on Hulu by subscribing to its ad-supported plan at $9.99 per month. If you want to catch the episodes without any distraction from ads, go for the no-ads plan for $18.99 per month.

Also Read: The Handmaid's Tale Season 6 cast and character guide: Meet the new and returning actors in the final installment of the dystopian series


What happened in The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 Episode 5?

In Episode 5, titled Janine, June, and Moira begin their Mayday mission to take Gilead down and reach Jezebel’s while searching for Janine. As they inform Janine about their mission, she helps them by sharing important information about all the entrances and exits and also draws them a map.

Elsewhere, Serena and Commander Wharton go on a date where Wharton tells her about his future plans with her, making her a little sentimental, and then proposes to her by getting down on one knee.

Meanwhile, June and Moira get into trouble after their heart-to-heart conversation and Moira’s unburdening of emotions that she had kept to herself since the beginning of the episode. They finally kill the guardian who tried to force himself on Moira and look for an escape route. The help they get is from none other than Commander Lawrence.


What might happen in The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 Episode 6?

As we have seen in the previous episode of The Handmaid's Tale, Commander Lawrence helped June and Moira escape after killing a Guardian. The next episode might be a crucial one in their Mayday mission.

On the other hand, another new storyline is brewing with Serena and Commander Wharton coming together.

Elsewhere, Nick goes to see the guardian he shot in the hospital after learning from his father-in-law, Commander Wharton, that he is recovering and might identify his attacker soon. The last we see of Nick is when he closes the door and pulls the blinds of the room the guardian was in, suggesting Nick might finish the job he couldn’t earlier.


Catch The Handmaid's Tale Season 6 only on Hulu.

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Edited by Sezal Srivastava