The Testaments delivered its most unsettling episode to date.
WARNING: This article contains spoilers from The Testaments television programme and The Testaments novel by Margaret Atwood
The Testaments provided an equally disturbing viewing experience this week, continuing from the previous episode of The Handmaid’s Tale sequel, reports the Mirror.
Episode five depicted some of the Plums attending a ball, where they encountered their prospective husbands.
Agnes (played by Chase Infiniti) and her fellow Greens-Plums, who had begun menstruating, were exhibited and danced with the considerably older Commanders.
Agnes subsequently endured an uncomfortable video call with multiple Commanders, with Commander Judd (Charlie Carrick) prompting her to panic and the entire proceeding being temporarily halted.
Agnes was in love with Garth in The Testaments (Image: DISNEY)
The episode concluded with a significant revelation after it transpired that Garth (Brad Alexander) was set to become a Commander following his father being left severely brain-damaged after the events of the Boston uprising in The Handmaid’s Tale.
This signified that Garth would be permitted to marry, and Agnes held hope that she might become his Wife after forming an attachment to him.
Numerous viewers are intrigued about whom Agnes weds – here’s everything we know thus far.
Agnes found herself getting ready to marry a Commander (Image: DISNEY)
Who does Agnes marry in The Testaments?
In The Testaments novel, Agnes doesn’t marry anyone.
She is engaged to Commander Judd; however, she escapes this fate after expressing her dread at becoming a wife.
Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) facilitates Agnes’s path to becoming a Supplicant, a trainee Aunt at Ardua Hall. In the novel, Agnes becomes Aunt Victoria, and her friend Shunammite (Rowan Blanchard) ends up getting married off to Commander Judd.
In The Testaments TV show, it remains unclear who Agnes will wed at this point.
The Aunts are still deliberating over which girl will marry whom, while the Commanders are becoming acquainted with their prospective wives.
Speaking about Garth discovering he is to become a Commander, The Testaments star Brad Alexander recently told Variety that his character was “really excited” but this was “a little bit naive”.
He went on to elaborate on Garth’s outlook on marriage, given that the secret Mayday handler has been raised in Gilead and has no knowledge of the outside world.
Alexander explained: “I think he idealized [sic] marriage, as you do in Gilead, but it’s not something that’s related to love or affection.”
He revealed that in Garth’s mind, “marriage is dynastic” and served as a means to “equalize [sic] houses and privilege and money and economics”.
Fans will therefore need to wait and see how events unfold, and whether Agnes will ultimately get to marry Garth after longing for him.
