'Roll over and spread your legs': Unsettling new teaser for The Handmaid's Tale season two unveiled on International Women's Day

By Ross Mcdonagh For Dailymail.com

Published: 21:57 EDT, 8 March 2018 | Updated: 07:55 EDT, 9 March 2018

Hulu certainly picked an apt day to release it.

The unsettling new teaser for season two of The Handmaid's Tale was unveiled on Thursday — International Women's Day.

The brief 30-second clip is filled with grim imagery, and the voice-over is not much more comforting.

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Apt: The unsettling new teaser for season two of The Handmaid's Tale was unveiled on Thursday ¿ International Women's Day

Apt: The unsettling new teaser for season two of The Handmaid's Tale was unveiled on Thursday — International Women's Day

'Wear the red dress, wear the wings, shut your mouth, be a good girl, roll over and spread your legs,' Elisabeth Moss's Offred can be heard whispering. 'Yes, ma’am, may the Lord open.'

Baying dogs, a hangman's noose, someone being executed with a bullet to the head, and one nasty slap across the face.

The final shot shows Moss covered in blood — and it doesn't appear to be her own.

Grim: 'Wear the red dress, wear the wings, shut your mouth, be a good girl, roll over and spread your legs,' Elisabeth Moss's Offred can be heard whispering. 'Yes, ma¿am, may the Lord open.'

Grim: 'Wear the red dress, wear the wings, shut your mouth, be a good girl, roll over and spread your legs,' Elisabeth Moss's Offred can be heard whispering. 'Yes, ma’am, may the Lord open.'

Plot: The second season will pick up where the first left off, with Offred pregnant and facing discipline for defying Gilead's rules

Plot: The second season will pick up where the first left off, with Offred pregnant and facing discipline for defying Gilead's rules

Bleak: Baying dogs and a hangman's noose help set the unnerving scene

Bleak: Baying dogs and a hangman's noose help set the unnerving scene

'Seriously? What the actual f...' she asks before the trailer cuts to black.

New poster art also unveiled shows Offred, holding said wings as they burn in her hand; her red dress is seen aflame throughout the clip too. 

The second season will pick up where the first left off, with Offred pregnant and facing discipline for defying Gilead's rules.

Stoic: Ann Dowd's sour faced Aunt Lydia makes an appearance

Stoic: Ann Dowd's sour faced Aunt Lydia makes an appearance

Oppressive: Someone is seen being executed with a bullet to the head

Oppressive: Someone is seen being executed with a bullet to the head

Ouch: One nasty slap to the face also features

Ouch: One nasty slap to the face also features

While season one followed the arc of exec producer Margaret Atwood's famous 1985 novel, the second will be newly imagined.

The show picked up eight of the 13 Primetime Emmys in September, including Outstanding Drama series.  

The first two episodes of season two stream on Hulu from Wednesdsay, April 25.   

Whose? The final shot shows Moss covered in blood ¿ and it doesn't appear to be her own.

Whose? The final shot shows Moss covered in blood — and it doesn't appear to be her own.

Burning: New poster art also unveiled shows Offred, holding said wings as they burn in her hand; her red dress is seen aflame throughout the clip too

Burning: New poster art also unveiled shows Offred, holding said wings as they burn in her hand; her red dress is seen aflame throughout the clip too

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