Now We Know Precisely When The Final of Us Season 2 Is Coming

It’s been a couple years waiting for the return of HBO’s seminal adaptation of Naughty Canine’s post-apocalyptic, cinematic trauma simulator The Final of Us—not in contrast to ready for the subsequent chapter in a online game saga. However now, after a long, long time, we lastly know: The Final of Us is again April 13.

In a brand new press launch HBO confirmed that the seven-episode sophomore season will start simply a few months from now within the 9 p.m. ET/PT slot on the cable community on Sunday, April 13, with episodes concurrently releasing to stream on Max. To mark the information, three new posters had been additionally launched, that includes Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, and series newcomer Kaitlyn Dever as Joel, Ellie, and Abby, respectively.

The Final of Us Season 2 Launch Date Posters

Season two will decide up 5 years after the occasions of The Final of Us‘ debut season, which ended with Joel making the controversial resolution to avoid wasting Ellie from a Firefly facility the place she had been taken for experimentation to develop a possible remedy to the cordyceps virus that had ravaged the world, primarily based on her personal immunity. Starting to adapt the occasions of Naughty Canine’s personal 2020 online game sequel The Final of Us Half II, the season will comply with Joel and Ellie as they arrive into battle with not simply with the ever-evolving apocalyptic world round them, but additionally one another.

Except for its truncated episode depend, the one different sure factor we learn about season two to this point is that it will only cover part of the occasions of Half II, fairly than utterly adapting the sport as season one did for the primary sport. The Final of Us had initially planned to solely run for 3 seasons, however in splitting its tackle Half II throughout a number of seasons, the chance for greater than only a second and third season has remained on the table.

“We don’t assume that we’re going to have the ability to inform the story even inside two seasons [two and three] as a result of we’re taking our time and go down fascinating pathways which we did a bit bit in season one too,” showrunner Craig Mazin stated in an interview with Deadline final summer time. “We really feel prefer it’s virtually assuredly going to be the case that—so long as folks maintain watching and we are able to maintain making extra tv—season three can be considerably bigger. And certainly, the story could require season 4.”

What meaning for the place season two pauses the story? Nicely, sport followers have been speculating about that virtually so long as we’ve been ready for season twp. At the very least now we all know that we don’t have for much longer to attend earlier than we begin discovering out ourselves.

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