'The Last of Us' HBO Series (NO GAME SPOILERS!) | Season 2 Coming 2025 With 7 Episodes |

[Blackfyre]

Craig Mazin reveals that ‘THE LAST OF US’ series may stretch to Season 4 to tell the full story of the second game. (Source: Deadline)

 

[Human Torch]

Reading that article, kinda feels to me like Mazin and Druckman are thinking about going away from the flashback style of storytelling the 2nd game has and

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just do a more linear approach. Maybe each episode is in a specific timeframe, which lets them introduce all the different factions that show up between both video games.

It also could mean they decided that the ending of season 2 is (big spoiler next)

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The golf club scene, and all of the 2nd season is a build it to it + building all the other factions/characters

Specially after reading this:

“We don’t think that we’re going to be able to tell the story even within two seasons [2 and 3] because we’re taking our time and go down interesting pathways which we did a little bit in Season 1 too,” Mazin said. “We feel like it’s almost assuredly going to be the case that — as long as people keep watching and we can keep making more television — Season 3 will be significantly larger. And indeed, the story may require Season 4.”

This was always my assumption. Primarily because

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pascal is too big of a draw to kill him off so soon.

 

[Red Shield]

Ehhh I don't think pt2 needs 4 seasons.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Ehhh I don't think pt2 needs 4 seasons.

It does if you tell it in chronological order, showing what the game missed. Makes what happens even stronger if it's the end of Last of Us 3 and not the beginning of Last of Us 2