After the end of the work on the set announced in August, the second season of “The Last of Us” is getting closer and closer to the expected release for next year, finally allowing us to glimpse some precious details on the plot developments that await us. With great surprise, burning the stages on the initial predictions, the touching stories of Joel and Ellie could resume as early as the first half of 2025, as anticipated to Deadline by the president and CEO of HBO Casey Bloys during the last edition of the Emmy Awards.

Following the event, the TV channel's boss said he had high expectations for the continuation of the show, showing above all full confidence in the work done by its creator : «I've already seen The Last of Us. I think everyone will love what Craig Mazin is doing […] Obviously I've seen the dailies and read the scripts, so I have high hopes».

Last September 26th was “The Last Of Us Day”, the anniversary that for fans of the franchise commemorates the outbreak of the Cordyceps pandemic, giving rise to the events known in the video game and in the adaptation on the small screen. For the occasion, HBO has satisfied fans by releasing the second teaser trailer of “The Last of Us 2”, where we can admire for the first time the young Kaitlyn Dever and Isabela Merced in the roles of Abby and Dina, two extremely important characters in the story.

The release of the teaser was received particularly positively by the fanbase, as it would better understand the path taken by the creative staff in making the transposition. Those who have played the second chapter of the original video game know that at a certain point the narration reaches a crossroads, offering the different point of view of a second character. From what emerged after watching the video, it seems that “The Last Of Us” 2 will show the two perspectives simultaneously, focusing on the events set in Seattle and mainly adopting a type of linear narration compared to the recurring time jumps present in the game version.

With the mass echo and prestige accumulated over the years, The Last of Us has also had to deal with the unreasonable demands of some fans. In fact, the choice of roles required an extremely careful selection and the new interpreter Kaitlyn Dever seems to be well aware of this. According to the revelations of her colleague Isabela Merced during an episode of the podcast Happy Sad Confused, Dever had to resist the haters who mistreat her character since her first appearance in the video game, making her job not only doubly difficult, but forcing her to protect herself from possible verbal and physical aggression: «There are so many strange people in this world... there are people who really hate Abby, who is not a real person. Kaitlyn had to be protected by security during filming».

And remembering that the series was born from a four-handed work between the co-creator of the video game Neil Druckmann and the showrunner Craig Mazin, Merced wonders how it is possible that fans can doubt the faithfulness of the adaptation: "What confuses me is that the showrunner and the creator of the video game worked together to make this, so if you like what he did and is continuing the work, why are you angry? I'm too opinionated to be on Twitter. I see these things and I want to be a Cardi B with them".

After all, respect for the original work has already been amply demonstrated with the episodes of the first series. And as we learned at great cost in the video game, the show has also been able to accustom us to a scenario in which anyone can die at any moment. Let us recall in this regard the words of Craig Mazin released last year: "We don't necessarily do things in the same order or at the same time. In the first season we repeatedly did shocking things. People understood, watching the series, that it was a story in which no one was safe. As far as I'm concerned, anyone can die at any moment".

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