‘The Last of Us’ Season 2: Everything We Know So Far

Pedro Pascal a Bella Ramsey returns for more post-apocalyptic adventures on HBO’s upcoming second season The Last of Us.

Based on the 2013 video game of the same name, the series follows Joel (Pascal), an angry survivor tasked with transporting Ellie (Ramsey) across the country, 20 years after a zombie-like fungus , cordyceps, wiped out much of civilization. As they continue their journey, the unlikely duo form a vicarious father-daughter bond along the way.

The show premieres in January 2023, the series – co-created by Craig Mazin and the game’s writer and creative director, Neil Druckmann – renewed for season 2 after only two of the season’s nine episodes aired.

The second season is expected to follow the plot of the video game’s 2020 sequel, The Last of Us Part IIwhich picks up a few years after the original story. Although the show has not been picked up for a third installment, Mazin previously teased that the series team may need more than one more season to properly portray. Part IIevents.

“The amount of story left would take us more than a season to tell. But definitely, I don’t see this as something that runs on and on and on,” he said Collider in January 2023. “We don’t have that ambition. Our ambition is to tell the story that exists, as best we can, in a different medium.”

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