The trailer for the second season of The Last Of Us has been released, showing an emotional standoff between Ellie and Joel – watch below.
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HBO’s post-apocalyptic drama show is returning on April 13, with Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal returning as the two lead characters who are attempting to survive in a world where civilisation has been destroyed by the outbreak of a mass fungal infection.
On Saturday (March 8), the first full trailer was unveiled during a panel discussion at SXSW. It catches up with Ellie and Joel, five years after we left them at the climax of season one.
They are seen navigating their way through a forest, interspersed with glimpses of Joel explaining the reality of their world to his five-year-old nephew Benjamin. With the zombie-like creatures still on the rampage, the trailer ends on a tense, emotional exchange between Ellie and Joel, with her questioning how honest he has been with her.
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It appears to refer to the ending of season one, in which Joel refused to let doctors from the resistance take Ellie’s life as an experiment to develop their vaccine against the infection. Joel told Ellie that her immunity to the pandemic had proven useless in developing a cure, which the audience knows not to be true. “You swore…”, we hear Ellie say to him.
The show is based on the PlayStation game of the same name, with game creator Neil Druckmann co-writing the show for HBO and serving as executive producer.
The first season was a major success, becoming HBO’s second biggest premiere in over a decade after House Of The Dragon, and racking up 4.7 million viewers in the US across HBO and streaming service HBO Max.
The second season was announced before the third episode aired. “I’m humbled, honoured, and frankly overwhelmed that so many people have tuned in and connected with our retelling of Joel and Ellie’s journey,” Druckmann said. “Now we have the absolute pleasure of being able to do it again with season two! On behalf of everyone at Naughty Dog & PlayStation, thank you!”
NME awarded the first season four stars, noting: “When The Last Of Us was announced, a vocal corner of the internet exploded into anxious anticipation, some sniping that Ramsey didn’t look enough like Ellie. Gamers have been burned before by poorly conceived adaptations of their favourite titles, so they were naturally skeptical. But they needn’t have been. The Last Of Us lacks novel ideas, but when it’s this good it can get away with it.”
UK viewers will be able to watch season two on Sky Atlantic and NOW from April 13.
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