Warning: Spoilers for The Last of Us Part 2 observe
HBO has simply given us a model new have a look at The Last of Us Season 2, which will probably be arriving on our tv screens in April of this 12 months. It’s solely a brief teaser, clocking in at slightly below a minute, however that doesn’t imply there aren’t any pictures, scenes, and characters which can be price taking a more in-depth have a look at. From a grief-ridden hospital hall to an anger-harbouring, red-drenched hospital hall, we’ve bought you coated (in addition to another non-corridor-related particulars).
In case you missed it, we already did a full in-depth breakdown of the primary Season Two trailer again in 2024, so you’ll be able to learn extra about a few of our theories about how the present may deviate from The Last of Us Part 2 recreation there. And we even had a go at predicting how this upcoming HBO season will play out when you’re within the temper for pure (educated) guesswork. But keep right here if you wish to try the 5 new particulars, in addition to comparisons between the present and Naughty Dog’s authentic recreation that we’ve picked out from the brand-new trailer.
1. Abby’s Hospital Corridor
As the teaser opens we get our first glimpse on the aftermath of The Last of Us’ most pivotal scene. An deserted hallway, bathed by a flashing pink mild, is soundtracked by an alarm sound that may little question ship shivers down the backbone of anybody who has performed the sport. Chronologically, this takes place moments after Joel’s fateful resolution to rescue Ellie from the Fireflies on the finish of season one. We see a panicked Abby – portrayed right here by Kaitlyn Dever – stroll down the hall resulting in the working theater of St Louis’ fictional St Mary’s Hospital. In that room, she’ll discover the physique of her dad, the surgeon whom Joel murdered to avoid wasting Ellie. It’s the motion that units the wheel in movement for Part 2’s and (we assume) Season 2’s story of spiraling revenge and violence.
2. Ellie’s Hospital Corridor
Speaking of revenge and violence, that’s precisely what’s happening on this scene simply earlier than the trailer ends, which reveals Bella Ramsey’s Ellie bathed in pink mild in a hall at Lakehill Seattle Hospital. This is nearly definitely a replication of the second in The Last of Us Part 2 when, having cornered certainly one of Abby’s accomplices, Nora, Ellie proceeds to unleash what can solely be described as a ferocious assault on her pleading sufferer. It’s an actual turning level for Ellie within the recreation’s story as we actually see for the primary time how unstable she has develop into, and the uncomfortable lengths she’ll go seeking vengeance.
3. Sickle Sneak Peek
The Last of Us Part 2 is persistently extremely violent, even by its predecessor’s requirements, and 20 seconds into the teaser we get our first have a look at a bladed sickle weapon, which presumably belongs to one of many Seraphites. Also often known as Scars, this cult-like faction from the sport favors extra workman-like weaponry corresponding to hammers, machetes, bows, and, on this case, sickles. This could appear to be a extremely tenuous element, however this particular device of destruction (or harvesting if that’s extra your velocity) performs a key position late in The Last of Us Part 2’s story. In a brutal showdown with a pickaxe-wielding Seraphite heavy, Abby achieves bloody victory with a Sickle, tearing aside the Seraphite’s face in a sequence that’s often harrowing.
4. A Better Look at Isaac
At the 21 second mark we get a stunning close-up of Jeffrey Wright, who performs Isaac Dixon, the chief of the Washington Liberation Front; a paramilitary organisation that Abby works with. Following within the footsteps of Season 1 actor Merle Dandridge (who performed Marlene), Wright truly reprises his position from the sport, the place he offered voice and motion-capture for Dixon in The Last of Us Part 2.
A sophisticated character consumed by battle (as many on this story are), Dixon doesn’t get a ton of display time within the recreation. Here’s hoping we get a bit extra of him within the present, in addition to extra of that fetching beard and knitwear combo.
5. The Last Dance
And lastly, at 24 seconds in, we get a have a look at probably the most memorable scenes from throughout each The Last of Us video games – the Jackson dance. Dina, performed within the HBO present by Alien Romulus’ Isabela Merced, might be seen embracing Ellie in a scene that may spark their romance. It’s an actual heat second of tenderness amongst the chilly hopelessness that the remainder of the story initiatives, which is probably going why it endures as such a memorable second.
It will probably be fascinating to see if the chronology of occasions is being performed round with right here. In The Last of Us Part Two, the dance happens proper on the finish of the story in flashback type, however we already know that Season 2 of the present shouldn’t be going to achieve that far into the timeline. The proven fact that we’re seeing it right here within the trailer means that Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin is perhaps tweaking the order we see these scenes, maybe to assist cement the emotional stakes of Ellie’s journey.
We received’t have to attend lengthy to see what modifications, if any, have been made to The Last of Us Part Two’s story, although, with Season 2 of the present only some months away now. What are you most excited to see within the upcoming episodes? Let us know within the feedback under.
