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The Last of Us Season 2 has dropped a new teaser to celebrate The Last of Us Day.
HBO has dropped a new teaser for The Last of Us Season 2, and it’s packed to the gills with references to Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part 2. The intense trailer features footage from next season set to the tune of Pearl Jam’s ‘Future Days’, which will be hauntingly familiar for fans of the game. Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey return as Joel and Ellie, as the duo become entangled in a suspenseful new adventure.
Watch the trailer:
The Last of Us Season 2 trailer features Seraphites, WLF faction, and more
To celebrate The Last of Us Day – the day an in-universe fungal outbreak kicked off in earnest – HBO has released a new teaser trailer for The Last of Us Season 2, which adapts the events of The Last of Us Part 2. The trailer delivers tons of familiar imagery for fans of the original game - from the guitar Joel gifts Ellie to a Stalker creeping after an unknown figure.
The trailer also gives fans a better look at new members of the series’ cast. We see Kaitlyn Dever as Abby, Isabela Merced as Dina, Young Mazino as Jesse, Jeffrey Wright as Isaac and Catherine O’Hara as a seemingly original character. Also joining the cast are Ariela Barer as Mel, Tati Gabrielle as Nora, Spencer Lord as Owen and Danny Ramirez as Manny. Gabriel Luna returns as Joel’s brother Tommy, seen in the trailer facing down a horde of Infected in the snow.
Here’s HBO’s description of The Last of Us Season 2:
After five years of peace following the events of the first season, Joel and Ellie’s collective past catches up to them, drawing them into conflict with each other and a world even more dangerous and unpredictable than the one they left behind.
This is a pretty great trailer to drop on The Last of Us Day in particular, considering that hardcore fans will be able to spot all the direct connections this season has to the Naughty Dog game. We see Abby getting saved from an Infected horde, a terrifying encounter in an underground subway tunnel, an unknown Seraphite, Isaac interrogating a prisoner and many more sequences recreated almost shot-for-shot from the game.
The Last of Us Season 2 is expected to premiere sometime in 2025. This season will be the first of potentially three seasons to adapt the events of The Last of Us Part 2, following its critically-acclaimed first season.