A Riveting New Teaser Confirms “The Last of Us” Season 2 Arriving on HBO in April
The second season of HBO and Sony Pictures TV’s gripping drama The Last of Us will sink its teeth into our eyeballs this April, Sony confirmed Monday night at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
A riveting new one-minute teaser for the series was released on Monday, revealing glimpses of what’s to come and confirming that April showers will also bring April zombies (one assumes that in the world of The Last of Us, flowers still bloom in May.) The teaser gives us a look at Kaitlyn Dever playing Abby, a well-known character from the video game series who is new to the show. “It doesn’t matter if you have a code like me,” she says, walking down a shadowy hallway with a gun in her hand. “There are some things everyone agrees are just wrong.”
We also see a glimpse of Jeffrey Wright’s Isaac, another character from the video game series who is making his first appearance in the show. The teaser gives us glimpses of season one stars Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), and ends with hundreds, if not thousands, of the infected slamming themselves into a snowy refuge’s protect walls.
We’ve learned in the full trailer for season 2 that the action picks up five years after the first season’s events. Season 2’s logline confirms that “Joel and Ellie are drawn into conflict with each other and a world even more dangerous and unpredictable than the one they left behind.” In the full-length trailer, we were also introduced to Catherine O’Hara’s new character, seemingly playing a therapist who we find working with Joel. We all know Joel needs therapy—he’s done things he never thought he’d have to to survive the outbreak. Once Ellie was made his charge, he only had to dig deeper and go darker, including capping season one with a vengeful bloodbath at a hospital where Ellie was moments away from being dissected for the zombie serum she seemed to possess in her blood.
The trailer also revealed Ellie in her new home in the mountains, safely secured there by Joel after he went on his rampage to free her. Although everyone appears to be in a better place than the one we left them, the trailer also gave us a glimpse of one of the infected—at one of the later, more terrifying stages of mutation—crawling toward an unsuspected potential victim.
In The Last of Us, safety is an illusion, and most codes, even codes of morality, eventually get broken.
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