If You Can’t Wait For The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6, Watch This New Elisabeth Moss Show In The Meantime

Summary Elisabeth Moss shines in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, which helped her win an Emmy and boosted her career to new heights.

While waiting for season 6, viewers can enjoy Moss in the cerebral thriller The Veil.

The Veil, which recalls Moss' Top of the Lake, showcases another powerful performance.

The Handmaid's Tale, Hulu's long-running dystopian drama, has launched Elisabeth Moss' already-impressive career to new heights. Based on Margaret Atwood's classic novel of the same name, The Handmaid's Tale is set in a version of the present where infertility has run rampant. Following a second civil war, the former United States is transformed into Gilead, a theonomic and totalitarian society that enslaves fertile women, known as Handmaids, to bear children for high-ranking officials. June Osborne (Moss) is one of those women, and the first few seasons of The Handmaid's Tale chronicle her efforts to escape Gilead.

Moss, who won an Emmy for her performance, is set to return as June for a sixth and final time.

The initial season of the show won a remarkable eight Emmy Awards, becoming the first-ever series produced by a streaming service to win Outstanding Drama Series. Since it debuted in 2017, The Handmaid's Tale has released five harrowing seasons, with June's TV story now extending far beyond the ending of Atwood's novel. Moss, who won an Emmy for her performance, is set to return as June for a sixth and final time. However, with The Handmaid's Tale season 6's release date up in the air, audiences may want to tune into another Elisabeth Moss series in the meantime.

The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian television series based on the 1985 novel by author Margaret Atwood. The series was created by Bruce Miller and stars Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, and Yvonne Strahovski. The show follows the story of a young handmaid as she is forced to deal with a new totalitarian government that subjugates women in this dark societal twist. Cast O-T Fagbenle , Joseph Fiennes , Alexis Bledel , Elisabeth Moss , Amanda Brugel , Bradley Whitford , Max Minghella , Ann Dowd , Samira Wiley , Madeline Brewer , Yvonne Strahovski Release Date April 26, 2017 Seasons 5 Streaming Service(s) Hulu Writers Bruce Miller , Margaret Atwood Showrunner Bruce Miller

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Elisabeth Moss' The Veil Is A Good Replacement While Waiting For The Handmaid's Tale's Return

The Limited Series Boasts Another Powerful Performance From Moss

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Written by Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things), The Veil is a six-episode limited series that stars Elisabeth Moss as veteran MI6 agent Imogen Salter and Yumna Marwan (Little Birds) as Adilah, a woman harboring a secret. The international spy thriller sees the women traveling from Istanbul to Paris to London, and chronicles their increasingly fraught relationship. In true espionage fashion, The Veil's cast of characters aren't always truthful. While one of the women has an enormous secret, the other is tasked with revealing that untold truth before lives are lost.

The Veil is certainly more of a cerebral thriller than an action-filled one...

Meanwhile, the CIA and French DGSE officers who are overseeing the whole operation are forced to put their differences aside and work together. Josh Charles, best known for his stint on The Good Wife, plays the ruthless CIA officer Max. As Salter's American liaison, his controlling nature poses more than a few problems. In withholding secrets and prizing big reveals, The Veil is certainly more of a cerebral thriller than an action-filled one — though there are still enough international set-pieces to satiate viewers. By and large, the key reason to watch The Veil is Moss' performance, which is both powerful and nuanced.

Related The Veil Review: Elisabeth Moss Gives Another Strong Performance In FX Spy Thriller That's Just Okay It may lose sight of what works best, but the themes & characterizations are crafted well enough to make for an overall satisfying viewing experience.

How The Veil Is Different From Elisabeth Moss' Past TV Show Roles

Moss Plays A Spy But Remains As Compelling As Ever

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With The Handmaid's Tale ending soon, Elisabeth Moss will likely step into a bunch of new and exciting roles. The Veil is a great example of this trend: Moss plays an MI6 agent who is so constantly undercover that she has trouble recognizing her true self. As always, Moss delivers an arresting and powerful performance, though Salter is much different from characters like June or Mad Men's Peggy Olsen. Still, Moss has played detectives before, namely in Top of the Lake, so The Veil isn't a huge stretch. If anything, Moss' characters are united by their fierce determination and resilience.

New episodes of The Veil premiere Tuesdays on FX through May 28, with next-day viewing available on Hulu.