HBO Greenlights The Final Of Us Season Two

After solely two episodes (the primary of which you’ll watch at no cost), HBO has renewed post-apocalyptic survival present The Final of Us for a second season. Information got here out this morning that the variation of Joel and Ellie’s story will proceed after it concludes its nine-episode run in March. Although there’s not a lot in the way in which of particulars about what kind a second season will take, that doesn’t imply we will’t speculate.

Probably the most pure assumption can be {that a} second season may observe the occasions of The Final of Us Half II as sequence director Neil Druckmann alluded to on Twitter alongside the announcement. The sequel focuses on an older model of Ellie after the homicide of somebody near her sends her on a revenge tour via Seattle. Nevertheless, as a result of there are such a lot of years between the story of the unique sport and its sequel, it might be cheap to perhaps wait a season or two earlier than leaping proper into that story and ready for Bell Ramsey, the actor who performs Ellie, to be a little bit bit older.

Conversely, a season that focuses on the years earlier than the occasions of Half II can be possible, and would let Ramsey play Ellie as she grows older, as properly. It could be a shake-up in format in comparison with the sport, as Half II does current these tales via flashbacks interspersed between current day segments. However altering up the construction of the story may let the present spend extra time with characters and relationships Half II needed to gloss over due to its time skip. So if HBO and Sony select to not soar proper into the sequel’s story, there’s lots of gaps to fill within the time between each video games.

HBO’s model of The Final of Us may also take a word from the video games and play with perspective. The Final of Us Half II has two protagonists in Ellie and Abby, and shifts between the 2 at a number of factors within the sport to offer the participant totally different understandings of occasions. Followers are satisfied they’ve sussed out who is likely to be enjoying Abby within the present, and I discovered myself questioning a few second season of The Final of Us that was fully about Abby and her perspective of the time we spend with Joel and Ellie within the first season. It could really feel thematically acceptable and in a position to play with sure tensions and frictions gamers really feel with the video games for these watching the present to have to take a seat with a personality who isn’t the one they’ve developed the attachment to, however I additionally marvel how HBO and Sony would play coy with the twists and turns of Abby’s story whereas additionally advertising and marketing status tv to tens of millions of individuals. I believe it might be one of many extra fascinating routes the present may go, however I do suppose it might be a problem to market, and Naughty Canine’s utilizing deceptive trailers and conserving Abby’s involvement a secret was one of many greatest sources of backlash on the time of Half II’s launch.

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Regardless of the present finally ends up doing, it’s unclear if the Final of Us video games are going to proceed previous Half II, as Naughty Canine doesn’t appear considering merely persevering with the sequence for continuity’s sake, and would want a worthwhile story to make one other sport set in its post-apocalyptic universe.