“The Last of Us” Season 2 Unveils Haunting, Taut New Trailer
We’ve got our first look at The Last of Us season 2, and it’s a taut, tense glimpse at one of television’s most compelling series next move. The trailer opens with Pedro Pascal’s Joel Miller and newcomer Catherine O’Hara as the two sit for what appears to be a therapy session. Heaven knows Joel needs it—the last time we saw him, he was seeing red in a brutal, vengeful bloodbath at a hospital where his charge, Ellie (Bella Ramsey), was moments away from being dissected.
Speaking of Ellie, we see her in her new home in the mountains, safely secured there by Joel and his rampage to free her. While our survivors look to be in a better position than they were at any point last season, the sense of security bleeds away at the one-minute mark. We see one of the infected—at one of the later, more terrifying stages of mutation—crawling toward an unsuspected potential victim.
The trailer, set to a particularly haunting version of Pearl Jam’s “Future Days,” picks up five years after the events of the first season. That means the hard-earned peace that Joel and Ellie have found will be that much more tragic to give up. “Joel and Ellie’s collective past catches up to them,” the official description reads, “drawing them into conflict with each other and a world even more dangerous and unpredictable than they left behind.”
Season two featuers a bunch of talented newcomers: Kaitlyn Dever as Abby, Isabela Merced as Dina, Young Mazino as Jesse, Ariela Barer as Mel, Tati Gabrielle as Nora, Spencer Lord as Owen, Danny Ramirez as Manny, and Jeffrey Wright as Isaac.
Why was the trailer released today? Good question—in the terrifying world of The Last of Us, September 26 was the day when the cordyceps virus outbreak first exploded in the original game by Naughty Dog.
Check out the trailer here. The Last of Us returns in 2025.
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Featured image: Pedro Pascal in “The Last of Us.” Photograph by Courtesy of HBO
