Second year of the show, directed by Bruce Straley and Neil Druckmann, will officially debut at HBO and Max next Sunday, 13
After being a big hit on television in 2023, in addition to winning several awards in the Emmy, The Last of Us will finally return with the second season next Sunday, 13, when HBO and Max will launch the first episode, titled “Future Days“(In reference to the homonymous song of the American Rock Band Pearl Jam).
In all, the show, which will adapt the video game game The Last of Us Part II (2020), will have seven episodes. So far, it is not known whether the new phase will completely adapt the game – and some scenes and events can be left to the already confirmed season season.
The first season of the adaptation has a practically new cast (only Merle Dandridgewho interpreted Marlene In the first game, he replaced the role) in relation to games, with names like Bella Ramsey (Ellie), Pedro Pascal (Joel), Nico Parker (SARAH MILLER), ANNA TORV (Theresa “Tess” ServoPoulos), Nick Offerman (Bill), Melanie Lynskey (Kathleen Coghlan), Storm Reid (Riley), Gabriel Luna (Tommy) and Murray Bartlett (Frank).
The second year has some news among the actors and actresses: Kaitlyn Duty (Abby Anderson), Isabela Merced (Dina), Danny Ramirez (Manny), Tati Gabrielle (Daughter -in -law), Young Mazino (Jesse), between others. Jeffrey Wright will reprise the role of Isaac Dixonwho interpreted in The Last of Us Part II.
Below, see six great game spoilers that can happen in the second season of The Last of Us (Warning of possible important spoilers below):
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*Editor’s Note: The following list was made based exclusively on The Last of Us Part II. The writer did not access any episode of the second season in advance.
The fight between Joel and Ellie
The second game takes place five years after the events of the first game. Among the narratives, the relationship between changed dramatically. What was once a parallel between father and daughter became something cold and distant, with a lot of resentment. But what happened?
At the end of the first game, when Joel he takes Ellie for the base of Vagalons For the creation of healing, he discovers that doctors would need to kill the girl to get the antidote. However, the protagonist does not accept the death of the young woman, with whom she built a beautiful relationship along their way to the place of the organization. So he kills everyone who was in place and takes Ellie Back, safely.
When you wake up, she asks what happened and Joel lies: the Vagalons They failed to cure and had several other immune people there. Ellie Ask if this was really true and he lies again. Since then, the character has been hurt, after all, her life purpose (saving humanity) did not work.
At one point in flashback, the player discovers the reason for the fight between the two main characters. Ellie escapes from Jackson, safe community led by Tommyto go to the hospital where they were taken to build the healing. She finds an empty place with some marks of violence. Joel goes after her, who confronts him again for the truth. This time he tells the whole truth. Hurt, Ellie He decides to break immediately with the one who considered a father and began to avoid him on any occasion.
At the end of The Last of Us Part IIwe find out that Ellie and Joel They had a honest conversation and she decided to forgive him. However, exactly the next day, something tragic happens …
Joel dies (and traumatized a generation of video game players) for revenge
When he went to make a round with his brother, Tommy, Joel finds a group of people, led by Abbywhich is surrounded by a horde of infected, almost no chance of escaping alive. However, the pair intervenes and saves them.
When they arrive at a safe point, the brothers present themselves and speak their names. So the rescued close their faces – and Tommy and Joel They realize that they went into trouble. They knock out Tommy and shot the shot on the leg Joelwhich is surrendered.
Then, Joel discover that Abby It is, in fact, daughter of the doctor of Vagalons who was responsible for healing and was killed by the hands of Joel. Since then, she has been blinded by revenge and dedicated body and soul to find the one who murdered her father coldly.
With Tommy knocked out, Abby Take a club of golf and kill Joel slowly and painfully. While it is tortured, Joel is found by Elliewhich is quickly surrendered by the group of enemies and does not reach time to save it.
Full of bruises and blood on his face, Joel tries to talk to Elliebut he receives a fatal blow from Abby and loses life. Then, Ellie A search begins to kill the villain and all the friends who participated in his father’s death.
New factions
If the first game presented Vagalons and Hunter, The Last of Us Part II reveals two great threats in this universe: The Washington Liberation Front (WLFcreated by dissidents of Vagalons) and the Serafites (also called pejoratively Scars).
Who is part of WLF? Abby and the group that helped her kill Joel with cold-blooded. The group’s great leader is the impetuous Isaac. Already the Serafites They are a religious and more conservative organization: all members have a large scar on the face and wear similar uniforms, with a definite hierarchy.
Dina is pregnant!
Since the beginning of the second game, it is understood that Ellie and Dina They had some loving involvement in the past. However, they develop something deeper in the game. After finishing dating with Jesse, Dina It gets single again and gives a soap opera kiss in Ellie At a party in Jackson – and the next day the death of Joel occurs.
When it goes in search of revenge for the death of Joel, Ellie intended to go alone, but is surprised when Dina decides to accompany her.
The days pass and Dina It starts to act differently. A nausea here, a vomiting there, an indisposition there. When the two are established in an abandoned cinema, Dina reveals to Ellie pregnant with Jesse. Moreover, in this same narrative arch, Ellie Still reveals that it is immune.
New types of infected
As always, the sequels (whether of games, movies, series or books) need to expand the concept of what was presented at the beginning of the franchise.
In The Last of Us Part IIplayers are presented to two new types of infected by the fungus Cordyceps. However, only one of them should appear in season two, as the other appears only more to the end of the sequel.
In the middle of the game Ellie needs to face a stumble, considered the fourth stage of the evolution of the fungus next to the Bay. The difference is that the new monster has a concentration of spores on the head instead of the whole body.
Already the part of the history of Abby shows the character the most lethal infected seen throughout the franchise: The King of Ratscast by several infected who have been alive since the beginning of the apocalypse. In Part IIthe monster is trapped in a hospital, which began treating the first people who were infected in 2013 (the continuation takes place around 2038).
With a large stature, both in length and wide, The King of Rats It is formed by dozens of arms and legs – and even disentangle some infected to attack Abby.
Deaths (many deaths)
The first game of The Last of Us It has some deaths, but counting greatly increases in the continuation, whose adaptation must also show the fatal destination of some characters. In order not to lengthen too much, let’s just list names, without giving the context. They must be:
- Joel
- Isaac
- Jesse
- Jordan
- Leah
- Manny
- Honey
- Owen
- Nick
- Daughter -in -law
- Yara
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