HBO's The Last of Us Will Likely Run for Four Seasons

Just finished the first season and thought it was excellent. Can't wait until season 2 and not tooong to wait!

Well seeing as I still have yet to finish the rest of TLOU 2, being as it's in my full gaming backlog, I guess I have 2 more years to completely finish the story before being spoiled by the show.

Excited for season 2 but curious how they expand it. More Abby and co moments. More flash backs of Joel? More WLF vs Serpahites? More Lev? Endless opportunities for expanding the story in interesting ways but curious nonetheless.

Can't wait for the 8K IMax remaster of Season 1 just before season 3 launches in checks notes 2027/2028

So will it be 3 seasons just for TLOU part II? I hope not, but we know it's at least 2 seasons, so hopefully Naughty Dog is releasing the 3rd installment before or alongside season 4.

They are going to really drag the pain out then huh? FOUR!!

This checks out actually. That whole section in Santa Barbra in Part 2 almost felt like another whole game lol

@Sacrosanctus I highly doubt that, i think they're gonna stretch out Part 2 into 3 seasons. Considering Intergalactic is the next game, TLOU3 is likely at least 6+ years away... glup

American shows always seem to go on for a couple of seasons longer than they should. Compare this to British shows that have six episodes spread across two seasons.

Either way, Imo, unless the series is going to diverge massively from the games, I fail to see how TLOU2 has three seasons of content to it. It's The Hobbit all over again.

Tlou 1 > season 1
Tlou 2 > season 2 and 3
TloU 3 > season 4 or it will have it's own story without waiting Part 3

@PuppetMaster be suprsied if we get pt3 much before 2040 so Imagine its own thing or drag out pt2

@PuppetMaster Is this confirmed or your prediction? I’m currently playing/finishing TLOU 1 and it could be a while before I play the second game. Can I watch season 1 without being spoiled but not season 2?

I still really think they should have split the first game into two seasons. The latter half felt rushed and lost a lot of its emotional heft, splitting into two would have helped this and also allowed for a couple more expanded character focused eps like "Long, Long Time"

This TV series will go down in history as having the worst miscast character.

@DiscoStuUK Yep. The last episode was so rushed it lost the emotional weight of the game’s ending. Not enough infected in every episode. I get that the game was taken to another level by the quiet moments, but quiet moments without enough action or danger diminishes them.

I always felt that instead of having the (if I remember correctly) 5 year time jump between the first games end, the start of the second, that when it came to the series that they should have a series or two in which they told their own stories to fill in that 5 year time jump. This would also allow Bella Ramsey to age somewhat, though truthfully, I think she was miscast anyway. I'm not saying that she didn't do a good job, but that she simply didn't look the part. It would also have allowed another season or two with Joel before... well, you know...

@VenomUK 1000% you'd be forgiven for forgetting the infected even exist by the last couple of episodes their presence is so minimal, kinda takes away from the whole 'Joel letting his personal trauma get in the way of the chance to find a cure for the infection' thing.

The removal of the action sequences involving Ellie and David also really took away from the reveal that he was a wrong 'un as well, absolutely not enough time spent building their tenuous relationship before his heel turn for it to carry any weight.

Please don't pull a GoT Mr. Druckman. Finish part 3 BEFORE Season 4. Martin is never gonna finish Winds of Winter as is.

Yeah four seasons feels a bit excessive, unless by the time they get around to season 4, who knows maybe we'll have The Last of Us 3...

@Fiendish-Beaver I'm in a similar thought. I could see this season covering the flashback sequences from Part 2 along with some other filler focused on Joel and Ellie's ongoing lives, and Abby's buildup of seeking revenge for what happened to the fireflies.

End scene of the season will be the Joel in one.

We'll probably get part 3 to finish the game series in 2028.

@Darude84 Season 1 is the first game with some change here and there. So you should finished the game before watch season 1.

season 1 felt rushed and now there going to stretch out the second game

Putting more clickers into the TV season from the game that felt like it had even less clickers than the first game, it was all Wolfs vs Ellie and Wolfs vs the Cult, w/ a couple of big set pieces, seems weird. And I could do w/o the 1 set piece in the building, added nothing to the game's story. It works in a game, gives the player something to finally do, but I don't think the audience really needs it.

If game 2 is stretched out over 3 TV seasons, which I could see them doing, that gets us close to 2030 doesn't it? Man that seems so far away. Like everything else. 😩

I was fine after one season. Guarantee it gets ridiculously silly after that. Four seasons? No way. Also, the main girl is real hard to look at.

I’m really looking forward to this. I thoroughly enjoyed the second game but I felt that a lot of arcs were underdeveloped and major plot points were rushed and/or unearned, sending its tone into the realm of pulp, something that I don’t think suits TLoU’s universe. This is a great opportunity to do narrative justice to what I consider a heavily flawed masterpiece.

My fear is that they spread the good stuff too thin.

Don't get me wrong, TLoU certainly had a good story, but most of that was the dialogue during exploration sections.

The world itself was the star of the show including the environmental story telling and the diary notes etc you'd find.

It was a very long way from a soap opera. The cutscenes for example were probably 0.1% of the overall game time.

I don't want the whole TWD tired trope of hours upon hours of soap dialogue, where two characters chat whilst the actors pretend to pick strawberries, clean weapons or plant potatoes.

It's cheap low budget stuff, but I stopped wasting my time watching such material a long time ago.

The 2nd game will likely be split in two and fleshed out with you-know-what as the ending to the 2nd season.

Maybe by the end of Season 4, Bella Ramsey will actually look their age. Nothing will top Stranger Things though, 5 seasons in 4 presidential terms.

I hope this doesn't mean the second game will be covered over the course of 3 seasons, while the first one covered 1 single season. Unless the 4th season is meant to cover a potential third game's story which in turn might mean it'll be a more straightforward story akin to TLOU1, rather than TLOU2.

I don’t mind the thought of 4 seasons. There’s likely so much backstory for each character that the game cannot explore due to the nature of gaming it could easily tell an amazing story over 4 seasons without losing the core elements of the game

@SillyBoyJudas No one has a backlog. It's called procrastination and laziness

I'm on the fence watching season 2 based on season 1. Bad pacing, poor casting, inconsistent quality of acting, often a chore to watch, with the game I was so invested in Joel & Ellie, with season 1 I didn't even care about watching the next episode that much. It had some good moments and elements for sure but nothing the vastly superior Walking Dead did in it's early years. Go watch season 1/2/3 of that instead if you haven't seen it.

Let's wait and see how Season 2 pans out first. Even though I liked the second game (up to a point) TV audiences may not be so forgiving. I also enjoyed Season 1 but still feel the casting was poor for Ellie.

@PushButtons It's called having other games you're getting through, enjoying playing games for fun instead of going through a serious story, and prioritizing other games over others. This excludes the usual excuse of "not having the time". Now go troll someone else.

@SillyBoyJudas Backlog is work terminology. You're not getting paid to play, you're paying to play