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Spoilers for the second season of "The Handmaid's Tale" below.Season two of "The Handmaid’s Tale" went out in spectacular fashion, with June deciding to stay in Gilead to rescue Hannah after seeing baby Holly (now Nichole) to safety with the help of Serena, Emily and a host of watchful Marthas. With myriad possibilities open for storytelling in season three (welcome to the rebellion, Commander Lawrence!), here’s everything we know so far.1) Season three is officially happening.Hulu renewed "The Handmaid’s Tale" for a third season back in May, just one week into the show’s season two run.2) Elisabeth Moss is coming back, of course. She posted an Instagram on the day of Hulu’s renewal with the caption, "We’re coming for ya’ season 3!!!"3) There’s no release date yet.But since seasons one and two aired in April 2017 and 2018, respectively, we'll likely see season three in April 2019 if the show remains on schedule.4) Season three will be about June's fight.In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, showrunner Bruce Miller said June is "ready to fight" to get Hannah out of Gilead alive — and damage the regime in the process. "She's ready to rise up, and ready to take some chances and use all the skills she's learned over the last three years," he said. 5) The show will chronicle Emily and Nichole's escape out of Gilead.Miller confirmed to CNN that we'd see their journey, though he didn't explicitly say whether or not they'd make it, necessarily. "There's a lot of people who want her, including the whole country of Gilead — if she happens to get out," he said. "She's the next generation that they're all doing all of this for."CNN reports Miller also said that Serena might be having some regrets about her decision to let Nichole go.6) Aunt Lydia's alive!Producer Warren Littlefield confirmed to EW that Aunt Lydia survived Emily's knife attack, and actress Ann Dowd will return for season three. Miller told CNN that the incident will "transform" Lydia. Hopefully this means fans will finally get her back story. 7) Commander Lawrence will be back. In an interview with reporters, Miller said (per CNN), that Bradley Whitford's unnerving yet shockingly rebellious Commander Lawrence, “the architect of Gilead’s economy,” will get a lot more screen time in season three. "You never know what he's willing to do and what he's not willing to do," Miller said, expanding on Lawrence's erratic behavior in his interview with THR: "He seems a little gone, with a glint in his eye. So that makes him very tough to predict, what he's going to do. He can be helpful, or not so helpful. That's the kind of character we like, someone who is interesting and consistent, but in the end, unpredictable in some really basic and important ways." 8) As will Rita, of course.The hero of the finale will hopefully get more screen time in season three, and actress Amanda Brugel says she's ready for it. "At the end of season two, I know where she’s going," Brugel told Vulture. "Now I have her voice, so I’m ready to use it."9) The show could ultimately have 10 seasons.Back in January, Miller told The Hollywood Reporter he has 10 seasons planned out which would incorporate — spoiler alert! — the fall of Gilead, which Atwood describes at the end of her book. "The book starts, then jumps 200 years with an academic discussion at the end of it, about what's happened in those intervening 200 years. It's maybe handled in an outline, but it's still there in Margaret's novel," Miller said. "We're not going beyond the novel; we're just covering territory she covered quickly, a bit more slowly."But in the newer THR interview, Miller clarified that he really just wants to tell a good story: "I don't like TV shows that dribble off or overstay their welcome," he said. " When we get to the end of 'Handmaid's Tale,' I want it to be a beautiful piece of fiction, like the book, that you put a little bow around and you can put it on your shelf next to the book, and that it feels like a story well told from beginning to end."