When is ‘The Last of Us’ Season 2 Premiering on HBO?
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Update (2/19/25): The seven-episode second season HBO’s The Last of Us will debut Sunday, April 13 at 9:00 p.m. ET on HBO and will be available to stream on Max. In addition, HBO has released new teasers posters of the three main characters of season 2; Pedro Pascal’s Joel, Bella Ramsey’s Ellie, and Kaitlyn Dever’s Abby. They all read: “Every path has a price.”
A second season of the hit HBO series The Last of Us starring Pedro Pascal has been confirmed for a release in April 2025. Co-creator, writer, and executive producer Neil Druckmann confirmed the news during Sony’s press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES®) on January 6, 2025.
A new preview was also dropped that centered on Kaitlyn Dever’s character as Abby in season 2. Returning cast includes Pedro Pascal as Joel, Bella Ramsey as Ellie, Gabriel Luna as Tommy, and Rutina Wesley as Maria.
During a preview reel of all the network’s shows premiering in 2024 and 2025, The Last of Us was included in the latter year alongside other series like The White Lotus, Euphoria, And Just Like That…, and Welcome to Derry. In the clip for The Last of Us, there’s a scene of Pascal’s Joel killing a clicker and him and Bella Ramsey’s Ellie embracing one another. Ellie also says, “We finish what we started.”
The logline for season 2 of The Last of Us also was released: “Five years after the events of the first season, 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 Variety, season 2 started production in February 2024 in Canada. Casey Bloys, Chairman and CEO of HBO and Max Content, said the Hollywood strikes had, in fact, delayed production of the second season.
Now, fans are wondering how close season 2 will mirror the second part of the video game. According to showrunner Craig Mazin, the team was able to “map out all of season 2” before the strike began but noted that production was postponed.
“I think it’s becoming essentially a near certainty that we won’t be able to start [filming] when we were hoping to start, which is upsetting,” he said. “We are all raring to go. This is what we are born to do. This is how we not only choose to live our lives, but I believe [how we] are compelled to live our lives. Otherwise, why the hell would we do this insane job? I can assure you it’s not for money.”
Remezcla called the first season “riveting” and described the characters of Joel and Ellie as the “driving force” of the series.