Love it or loathe it, The Last of Us 2’s story is a complicated beast, with many overlapping threads and a lot of ground to cover. It’s perhaps not overly surprising that the director of HBO’s adaptation Craig Mazin is plotting at least two seasons of television to tell the tale – and that could potentially spill over into a third as well.
Work is currently underway on the anticipated second season, which has now been confirmed to run just seven episodes. That’s two shorter than the first season, although it’ll end at a “natural breaking point”. Our guess is that things will conclude with the showdown between Ellie and Abby in the theatre, although it depends on how exactly Mazin and co decide to adapt the plot.
Whichever way the narrative is broken up, Mazin believes he may not be able to tell the story he wants within two seasons. He suggested there are a lot of “interesting pathways” he wants to follow, so you can probably expect a deeper exploration of some of the characters, similar to how Bill and Frank got much more airtime in the first season.
The question is: how much is too much The Last of Us? Clearly, it’s going to take at least two full seasons to recap the plot of The Last of Us 2, and that’s a lot of television. Are you still excited for this show, and how do you think the second title’s tale should be adapted? Steer clear of any golf clubs in the comments section below.
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Makes sense to drag it out as long as possible until Part III comes out 🤣 although I'm not complaining, I even wish Part I had been told in 2 seasons.
The ultra violence of TLOU2 should be fun to watch. We live in a world were we have actually good vg adaptations and the most important questions of this new age are who is going to be Kratos? and is Tom Holland going to be Link or not? LOL
@GymratAmarillo Martyn Ford can be Kratos, well first off gotta see how well he does as Shao Khan in new MK movie,
But he definitely has the size for kratos, just put some paint on him,.deepen the voice all good !
Season 1 was too short, didn't focus some episodes on the main characters and none of the heavy scenes hit.
I'd say this is good news, but what saved TLOU2 was the gameplay, not the story lol, sooo...
@GymratAmarillo
I'll say something controversial, but I think Chris Hemsworth would be a great Kratos lmao.
He always plays the pretty boys, but some make up would truly change him into Kratos. He's already got the voice and he never takes roles where he's unrecognisable
I'm really excited for this, I think TV as a medium gives them the opportunity to smooth out the kinks in the narrative pacing, especially over the course of three seasons. I'm also expecting them to expand on what happens between the two games, with a slower buildup to THAT event.
Three sounds pretty excessive, I'd have expected a couple.
I really enjoyed the two games. I wasn’t a fan of some of the storyline decisions in the sequel, but overall I think they’ve been great. I just don’t have any interest in the adaptation, though I’m not sure why. Casting choices? Rehashing a story I’m familiar with? I guess for me, my gameplay experience, my extensive time with those characters is the definitive one.
I was thinking that maybe they'd do a story between the two games to give Bela a chance to grow into older Ellie... You know cover the estrangement between Joel and Ellie, show Abby finding her dad and vowing vengeance... but then I realised Bella is 20 and she's done growing!
I can see them keeping Pedro going for as long as possible as he is literally the shows selling point. My prediction is that viewing figures drop significantly amongst the crowd who have no interest in video games at that point
Lots of ways they could adapt Part 2, especially with all the Joel & Ellie flashbacks which explain their characters. Keeping roughly to the same structure as the game would keep Pedro around into S3 and S4 for those flashbacks. But I think they'd need to adhere quite closely to the game's story to give it the same emotional hits. (I just hope they do some retconning on the circumstances and character interactions leading up to the major event at the beginning of the game.)
That makes sense. The game has 3 distinct parts. Then it depends on the season length. Not sure they have enough 20-25 hours of content.
@Specky Part 1 was always going to get the short shrift, sadly. Naughty Dog's leadership favors Part 2 and doesn't want to admit the first game was simply better from a narrative perspective. All the hate for 2 has made them dig in their heels on that point. So we got a rushed season of the first game and the second's narrative will get room to breathe since it's their favorite. Would have made much more sense to do two seasons each, imo.
I suspect they'll wait as long as possible to kill Pedro Pascal. Either at the end of season 2 or sometime in season 3.
As much as I loved Part II, it did drag on for about 10 hours too long. Not that I didn’t like the ending and the decisions the characters made during those closing hours (trying to avoid spoilers here), but the gameplay sections that were placed at the end were just a little too much, imo, for a narrative heavy game. Here’s hoping that the TV show doesn’t overstay its welcome also.
Three parts is how the game played out so it would make sense to break it into 3 parts. Though really the whole concept of "season" of a tv show is really reaching it's limit when 7 episodes is a season. I'm old, 7 episodes is a "miniseries", not a series. Roots had 8 episodes, Rich Man, Poor Man had 12. That's not a season of an ongoing tv show. So when the show is over it will basically still be 1 season spread out over 4 or more years in parts. 😝
This show is going to be a mess. TV shows don't work like a video game, especially this game. I grow less and less interested. 🤷♂️
@Steel76 but the real monster... is MAN!
@glennthefrog
Yeah they're run by Twitter warriors, which makes me fear for TLOU3
@GymratAmarillo
Dave Bautista should be Kratos, he's even half Greek and is interested in his Greek heritage (the other half being Filipino) and looks the part and is a good actor.
Season 2 is only going to be 7 episodes.
This always should have been a miniseries. They are just trying to milk this for more cash. We are going to have to wait until 2030 to see Abby and Ellie fight.
They’ll drag TLOU2 out but they short changed TLOU1? So much great content emitted that could’ve bought them at least a few more episodes
I’ll take as many seasons as they’ll give me, as long as they don’t start trying to milk every angle they can with a bunch of spinoffs. I’m looking at you, TWD.
I still haven't played the last of us 2 and I kinda forgot most of what happened at 1. I remember putting it on while I was at a friend's house and remember it had a very long cutscene , so I turned it off before I actually got a chance to play it. I only turned it on just to try it out for a bit and coz I was at friends house, I didn't want to play for long. But that long cutscene put me off from playing it. I don't mind long cutscenes, but having it at the very beginning isn't a good idea. Coz sometimes people just want to see what the gameplay is like.
Dragging out this turd as long as they can
I totally believe it.
@Specky Thats not a bad shout actually. Also, check out Furiosa. He's all prostheticed up in that film. Pretty good too.
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