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The primary official teaser for HBO’s The Final of Us season 2 is right here, giving us a melancholy have a look at life years after the occasions of the primary season.
I will not spoil something for you: When you’re already aware of The Final of Us Half 2 then you definately’ll have a fairly good concept of what is coming, and if not, Wikipedia might help in case you simply cannot wait to search out out. Suffice it to say that life within the wake of the Cordyceps pandemic has returned to a type of normalcy, or a minimum of stability, though similar to the true world, some days are higher than others. And people less-better days, boy, they’re actually not good.
Joel is clearly struggling (you already know what you probably did) and his relationship with Ellie is equally strained—that is drama, child—however the trailer additionally pointedly options loads of rampaging zombies, gunfire, implied torture, and kinetic dangerous information throughout. I’ve to guess the aim is to deal with up-front the widespread grievance that the primary season, whereas narratively good, was a bit of missing within the motion division.
It additionally appears our guess that Catherine O’Hara’s “undisclosed function” being that of a therapist of some kind was right: The timer in the beginning of the trailer is a lifeless giveaway that this is not simply idle chit-chat over a few room-temperature Lone Stars.
It is price noting for the document that familiarity with The Final of Us Half 2 doesn’t assure spot-on insights into The Final of Us season 2. Showrunner Craig Mazin stated in 2023 that HBO’s tackle the sport will probably be completely different the place and when it must be, generally “radically” so—though I very a lot doubt that may have a lot influence on, y’know, the entire Joel enterprise. (No spoilers! I am simply saying.)
A beforehand launched teaser (which has since been taken down) stated The Final of Us season 2 could be out someday in 2024-25, however the first a part of that quantity is now off the desk. A exact launch date hasn’t been introduced, however at present’s trailer confirmed that it will not be out till someday in 2025.