The Last Of Us Season 2 To Premiere On HBO And Max On April 13th

Audiences have been clamoring for an announcement on the second season of the post-apocalyptic drama The Last of Us after production wrapped in August 2024. The video game-adapted series received mostly positive praise and gained numerous award nominations for the series and its cast, and the momentum following the first season will be carried over into the second season.

HBO announced in a press release on 19th February 2025 the official premiere date for The Last of Us Season 2, which will be on the cable network on 13th April 2025 at 9 pm ET/PT and will be available on Max to stream. They also released three new posters to promote the upcoming season featuring Pedro Pascal (Joel), Bella Ramsey (Ellie), and Kaitlyn Dever (Abby), with the tagline "Every path has a price."

The second season of The Last of Us adapts some stories and events of 2020's The Last Of Us Part 2, which many are hoping the series will better handle the narrative and thematic faux pas developer Naughty Dog had made with the game. While it may be interesting to see how the show's writers will tackle the game's material, the second season follows Joel and Ellie five years following the events of the first season, where "Joel and Ellie are drawn into conflict with each other and a world even more dangerous and unpredictable than the one they left behind," according to the official logline.

HBO also confirmed that the second season will feature seven episodes, two episodes shorter than the first season; however, as mentioned, it focuses only on parts of The Last of Us Part 2. This was confirmed in a 2023 GQ interview by showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, who directed both games.

Druckmann stated in the GQ interview that the events of the second game will encompass "more than one season," which Mazin elaborated by saying that they'll "not say how many, but more than one is factually correct." Druckmann revealed that he's most excited for "the changes" that were "discussed and seeing the [game's] story come to life again in this other version," which he thinks is "exciting because it leans into those feelings" that people had from The Last of Us Part 2, "really heavily, in a new way," he stated in the GQ interview.

The show's second season features a returning cast of Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna, and Rutina Wesley, with Kaitlyn Dever, Isabela Merced, Danny Ramirez, Young Mazino, Tati Gabrielle, Ariela Barer, Spencer Lord, and Jeffrey Wright joining the cast. Mark your calendars for 13th April 2025 for the premiere of The Last of Us Season 2 on HBO and, available to stream on Max, which international audience can check their local listing for its availability.