Solely every week in the past, we had been speaking about The Final of Us probably lasting 4 seasons whole and identified we by some means hadn’t acquired a definitive premiere date for season 2 but. Nicely, the wait is now over (and the actual wait begins now).
The excellent news is that it will not be a protracted one. In reality, TLOU season 2 is lower than a month away. HBO has introduced the long-anticipated second batch of episodes will kick off on April 13 on Max. That is a bit of over every week earlier than Star Wars: Andor returns to Disney Plus (April 22) with a second season of its personal, so we’ll be consuming good in late April and into Might, it appears.
HBO and Max collectively introduced the discharge date on Wednesday, February 19. It is the largest new season of tv coming to the streaming service this yr to this point. With different biggies resembling IT: Welcome to Derry, The White Louts, Hacks, Peacemaker, and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms lined up, it marks the ‘starting’ of a sizzling 2025 for Max.
The press launch additionally confirms what co-creator Neil Druckmann (additionally Naughty Canine honcho) and Craig Mazin had teased in late 2024: Season 2 will include seven episodes, making it two chapters shorter than season 1. Nevertheless, we have been advised again and again issues will likely be extra intense this time round, and anybody who performed The Final of Us: Half II will agree, even when we all know we’re getting solely a fraction of the story this yr.
New forged members being added this season embody Kaitlyn Dever as Abby, Isabela Merced as Dina, Younger Mazino as Jesse, Ariela Barer as Mel, Tati Gabrielle as Nora, Spencer Lord as Owen, and Danny Ramirez as Manny. Catherine O’Hara, who we lately liked in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, will even visitor star “in an undisclosed function” we won’t wait to see. Jeffrey Wright returns as Issac after taking part in the chief of the brutal Washington Liberation Entrance (WLF) within the recreation. They be part of co-stars Pedro Pascal as Joel, Bella Ramsey as Ellie, and Gabriel Luna as Tommy, amongst others.
