![]() Where and when will the characters be at the beginning of season two? What if they did that on a season-long scale, doing a whole season before even getting to the beginning of Part 2? The first season succeeded by expanding on characters and themes in the first game. ![]() As the above questions illustrate, there are any number of narrative threads to explore in that time between the games, including life at the settlement and the ripple effect of Joel’s decision. But what if they don’t even get there at all right away? Part 2 takes place four years after the end of Part 1. It’s a massive game, so most people read that as an intent to stay loyal to it across more than one year. Craig Mazin has already revealed that it will likely take more than one season to adapt The Last of Us, Part 2. This is the big question in play before getting into spoilers. What if they don’t jump right to the events of Part 2? Joel doesn’t seem like the kind of person who can hold such a momentous event secret for long, especially if Tommy starts asking questions and the Fireflies come looking for him and Ellie. How long can Joel keep up the lie about what happened in Salt Lake City? So much of the finale is about Joel and Ellie revealing truths about their background, with Joel telling the story of his failed suicide attempt and Ellie revealing what happened with Riley. Now what drives them? What shapes their relationship other than survival? Could there be a new mission in season two? Is there still a way to use Ellie for a cure without killing her? Or could there be a new quest for Joel and Ellie to complete that gets them out of the settlement and on the road again? It seems unlikely that a show so built around a journey structure would lose that in season two and restrict itself to Jackson. So much of the first season was about Joel bringing Ellie to the Fireflies. (The nurses in that OR could have a story to tell.) What happens when news of Marlene’s murder and Ellie’s kidnapping gets back to the rest of the organization? Will they send people after Joel and Ellie? He didn’t kill all the Fireflies, and one has to presume that Marlene (Merle Dandridge) made her plans with Ellie clear to someone who wasn’t in that hospital, even if they’ve lost the surgeon tasked with saving mankind. What will the Fireflies do after Joel’s decision at the end of the first season? Can he keep his story straight with them, or will he reveal the truth about what he did to save Ellie while possibly dooming humanity? So how will that affect the immediate action back at the settlement? Are they just going to settle down and live life as a makeshift father and daughter? Tommy ( Gabriel Luna) and, one would presume, Maria ( Rutina Wesley) know about Ellie’s immunity and Joel’s mission. After revealing so much about their pasts over the course of the first season, their relationship going into the second will be built on a lie. ![]() As they’re driving back to Jackson, he dodges Ellie’s questions at first, but the final exchange features Ellie making Joel swear that the lie Joel has told her is true. ![]() He isn’t having it, killing dozens of soldiers, the doctor operating on Ellie, and even someone he once called an ally. The Fireflies plan to remove part of her brain, replicate the way it responds to Cordyceps, and mass-produce it. ![]() In “Look for the Light,” Joel discovers that the plan to save humanity includes the death of Ellie. In order to avoid potential spoilers for people who haven’t played the stunning 2020 sequel, we’re dividing the questions we have after “Look For the Light” into two parts: five questions based purely on the show, and then five that incorporate knowledge of what happens in the second game. But maybe not that much of an advantage the show became a hit by appealing to non-gamers as well, and a second season will need to balance the expectations of both sets of viewers. Unlike most between-season conjecture, though, gamers who have played The Last of Us, Part 2 have an advantage when it comes to speculating about what’s next for Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey). With the first season of HBO’s The Last of Us coming to its harrowing conclusion, fans can now begin the long game of theorizing about season two. ![]()
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