After solely two episodes (the primary of which you’ll watch totally free), HBO has renewed post-apocalyptic survival present The Final of Us for a second season. Information got here out this morning that the variation of Joel and Ellie’s story will proceed after it concludes its nine-episode run in March. Although there’s not a lot in the best way of particulars about what kind a second season will take, that doesn’t imply we are able to’t speculate.
Essentially the most pure assumption can be {that a} second season might comply with the occasions of The Final of Us Half II as collection director Neil Druckmann alluded to on Twitter alongside the announcement. The sequel focuses on an older model of Ellie after the homicide of somebody near her sends her on a revenge tour via Seattle. Nevertheless, as a result of there are such a lot of years between the story of the unique sport and its sequel, it will be cheap to perhaps wait a season or two earlier than leaping proper into that story and ready for Bell Ramsey, the actor who performs Ellie, to be a little bit bit older.
Conversely, a season that focuses on the years earlier than the occasions of Half II can be possible, and would let Ramsey play Ellie as she grows older, as effectively. It could be a shake-up in format in comparison with the sport, as Half II does current these tales via flashbacks interspersed between current day segments. However altering up the construction of the story might let the present spend extra time with characters and relationships Half II needed to gloss over due to its time skip. So if HBO and Sony select to not leap proper into the sequel’s story, there’s numerous gaps to fill within the time between each video games.
HBO’s model of The Final of Us may additionally take a word from the video games and play with perspective. The Final of Us Half II has two protagonists in Ellie and Abby, and shifts between the 2 at a number of factors within the sport to present the participant totally different understandings of occasions. Followers are satisfied they’ve sussed out who may be taking part in Abby within the present, and I discovered myself questioning a few second season of The Final of Us that was solely about Abby and her perspective of the time we spend with Joel and Ellie within the first season. It could really feel thematically applicable and in a position to play with sure tensions and frictions gamers really feel with the video games for these watching the present to have to sit down with a personality who isn’t the one they’ve developed the attachment to, however I additionally marvel how HBO and Sony would play coy with the twists and turns of Abby’s story whereas additionally advertising status tv to thousands and thousands of individuals. I feel it will be one of many extra fascinating routes the present might go, however I do suppose it will be a problem to market, and Naughty Canine’s utilizing deceptive trailers and preserving Abby’s involvement a secret was one of many largest sources of backlash on the time of Half II’s launch.
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Regardless of the present finally ends up doing, it’s unclear if the Final of Us video games are going to proceed previous Half II, as Naughty Canine doesn’t appear all in favour of merely persevering with the collection for continuity’s sake, and would want a worthwhile story to make one other sport set in its post-apocalyptic universe.