HBO’s The Final of Us is quickly approaching its second season, set to reach in April, and it positive as hell ain’t trying like a cheerful time. Those that have performed The Final of Us: Half II know it is a lengthy online game stuffed with twists and intestine punches, so it comes as no shock to listen to that the present plan is to make at the least two extra seasons after this one.
The post-apocalyptic saga grew to become a lot larger and deeper with the discharge of the second recreation in 2020, and season 2 of the present is ready to observe the identical path after its dedication to constancy, all whereas increasing on sure fronts and making a number of clever tweaks, paid off massive time with informal viewers and longtime followers alike.
“We do not have a whole or ultimate plan, however I feel it is trying like 4 seasons. I would not need to verify that, however it’s trying like this season after which two extra seasons after this and we’re executed,” present HBO drama chief Francesca Orci mentioned (through Deadline).
Craig Mazin and Naughty Canine’s Neil Druckmann, who collectively created and have been shepherding the HBO collection, teased the identical final yr. “We do not assume that we’re going to have the ability to inform the story even inside two seasons [2 and 3] as a result of we’re taking our time and go down fascinating pathways which we did a bit bit in Season 1 too,” Mazin defined.
Followers of the video games can even be effectively conscious of how the cruel world of The Final of Us is shortly expanded as new factions and a number of other new characters are launched. Whereas we could not correctly meet all of them this season, Orci made positive to spotlight how that is a big a part of what makes season 2 so fascinating: “There’s sure parts by way of the assorted factions which are competing for survival that reveal themselves as a very intriguing survivalist group, and I feel they only have a top quality to them that feels distinct in how they current it.”
We’re nonetheless ready for a definitive launch date for The Final of Us season 2, however that might change any day now with a correct full trailer that elaborates a bit on the plot and the brand new relationship dynamics whereas teasing a bunch of the brand new threats for the viewers which are stepping into blind.
For TLOU as a franchise, extra seasons of HBO’s hit collection often is the solely new addition for what’s left of the last decade, as Naughty Canine’s expansive multiplayer tackle the IP was canned in late 2023 and Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet will preserve the studio busy for the foreseeable.