We now know exactly when the last season 2 comes

It was Waiting for a few years For the return of the HBO seed adaptation to the post-apocalyptic, naughty Dog cinematological trauma The last of us– Not unlike the waiting of the next chapter in the video game saga. But now, after Long, long timeWe finally know: The last of us returns on April 13.

In a new press release, HBO confirmed that Seven episode sophomore It will start just a few months from now on the slot for 9:00 pm on the cable network on Sunday, April 13, with the episodes simultaneously coming to the stream of max. To mark the news, three new posters were released, with the participation of Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsay and Newcomer Caitlin Dever Like Joel, Eli and Abby, respectively.

The last of us Season 2 Posters for Date of Issuance

Season two will take five years after the events of The last of us“Debut season, which finished with Joel makes the controversial decision to save Eli from a Firefly facility, where she was taken for experiments to develop a potential cure for the Cordicheps virus that devastated the world based on its own immunity. Starts to adapt the events of Naughty Dog 2020’s own continuation of video games The last of us part IIThe season will follow Joel and Eli when they come into conflict not only with the ever -evolving apocalyptic world around them, but also each other.

Apart from the termination of the crossed episode, the only other thing we know about the second season is that it Will cover only part from the events of Part IIInstead of fully adapting the game, as the first season did the first game. The last of us It was initially planning to work for only three seasons, but in dividing your acceptance Part II During several seasons the possibility of more than a second and third season has stayed at the tableS

“We do not think that we will be able to tell the story even within two seasons (two and three), because we take the time and go on interesting paths that we made a little in the first season,” said Shawner Craig Mazin in an interview with Deadline Last summer. “We feel that it will almost certainly happen that as long as people continue to watch and we can continue to make more television – the season three will be significantly more. And really the story can require a fourth season. “

What does this mean where the second season stops the story? Well, the fans of the game have been Speaking of this Almost as long as we are waiting for the TWP season. At least now we know that we don’t have much more time to wait before we start finding ourselves.

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