Renewed: The Last of Us
Two episodes down and new HBO drama is renewed for a second season.
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No surprises here with HBO renewing new dystopian series The Last of Us for a second season -after just two episodes have screened.
The series takes place twenty years after modern civilisation has been destroyed. Joel (Pedro Pascal), a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie (Bella Ramsey), a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.
Season one also features Australian stars Anna Torv as Tess, a smuggler and fellow hardened survivor and Murray Bartlett as Frank, a post-pandemic survivalist (in Monday’s upcoming episode).
Additional cast include Gabriel Luna, Nico Parker, Nick Offerman, Melanie Lynskey, Storm Reid, Merle Dandridge, Jeffrey Pierce, Lamar Johnson, Keivonn Woodard, Graham Greene, Elaine Miles, Ashley Johnson and Troy Baker.
The Last of Us screens in Australia on FOX Showcase and Binge.
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The second game’s story is too big for one season.
I think we should read this as a S2/3 greenlight 👍
That would get us to 2026 considering 18mths between seasons.
Hopefully by the end of this we’ll have a third game to move to series 4/5 and that will do. Wrap it up there and go out on a high.
The well known games title of this show should be attractive enough for a 2 season order alone. HBO would be wanting another hit show to follow GoT House of Dragons, so due to the high cost of The Last of Us season 2 was probably green lit for production from the start, for economy reasons. For me The Last of Us is showing signs of promise, but whether the current screenplay can sustain a multi-season production I’m not so sure, but then again American studios do have history making seven season shows from similar generic creative sci-fi properties.
Because one needs 7 seasons for syndication-even ‘ST Enterprise’ did end up cancelled at 5 though-the so called golden age of pay TV throwing vast sums at limited series does seem to be coming to an end-if they can’t make a season a year that bodes ill for it’s future as companies want a regular annual income.