HBO greenlights season 2 of The Last of Us
After just two episodes (the first of which you can watch for free), HBO renewed the series about post-apocalyptic survival Last of us for the second season. It was revealed this morning that the adaptation of Joel and Ellie’s story will continue after nine episodes wrap in March. While there aren’t many details about what form the second season will take, that doesn’t mean we can’t speculate.
The most natural assumption would be that a second season could follow the events of The Last of Us Part 2 as series director Neil Druckmann mentioned on Twitter along with the announcement. The sequel focuses on an older version of Ellie after the murder of someone close to her sends her on a revenge tour of Seattle. However, since there have been so many years between the original game’s story and its sequel, it would make sense to wait a season or two before jumping right into that story and waiting for Bell Ramsey, the actor who plays Ellie. a little older.
Conversely, a season that focuses on the years leading up to the events Part II would be feasible and let Ramsey play Ellie when she gets older. It would be a shake up of the format compared to the game. Part II really presents these stories through flashbacks interspersed between today’s segments. But changing the structure of the story could allow the series to focus more on characters and relationships. Part II I had to cover it up due to a time gap. So if HBO and Sony decide not to jump right into the plot of a sequel, there will be a lot of gaps to fill in between both games.
HBO version Last of us also can take notes from games and play with perspective. The Last of Us Part 2 features two main characters in Ellie and Abby, and switches between them at several points in the game to give the player a different understanding of events. Fans convinced that they guessed who can play Abby in the seriesand I caught myself thinking about the second season Last of us it was all about Abby and her perception of the time we spend with Joel and Ellie in the first season. It would be thematically appropriate and able to play with certain tensions and frictions that players experience in games for those who watch the series to sit with a character that is not one they have developed an affection for, but I’m also interested in how HBO and Sony will keep a low profile about the vicissitudes of Abby’s story, as well as sell prestige television to millions of people. I think this would be one of the more interesting routes the show could take but I really think it would be a problem for the market and Naughty Dog used misleading trailers and kept Abby’s involvement a secret which was one of the biggest sources of negative reaction to the show. time Part IIlaunch.
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Whatever the end of the show, it’s unclear The last of us games will go on in the past Part IIsince Naughty Dog doesn’t seem to be interested in just continuing the series for the sake of continuity, and need a real story make another game in the post-apocalyptic universe.
