‘The Last Of Us’ game fans are loving this “evil” promo for season two: “If you know, you know”

16 April, 2025

Pedro Pascal as Joel in The Last Of Us Part 2

Gamers who have played The Last Of Us Part 2 are loving HBO’s “evil” promo for the second season of the TV adaptation.

The second season of The Last Of Us premiered earlier this week and is set five years after the events of the first, which saw Joel (Pedro Pascal) leading Ellie (Bella Ramsey) across a post-apocalyptic America. A group of survivors known as The Fireflies believed Ellie’s blood could cure the infection that was still ravaging the world but Joel couldn’t let her sacrifice herself, so murdered a number of doctors in the brutal season finale, before lying to Ellie about what had happened.

The same thing happened in the original video game and from what we’ve seen of the second season of The Last Of Us, HBO are still sticking closely to the source material.

However gaming fans who have already played The Last Of Us Part 2 have noticed a brutal bit of foreshadowing on HBO’s streaming service Max. An advert to watch the show has been positioned next to another promoting the US Open. It might seem innocent enough but in the game, Joel is brutally murdered by Abby via a golf club.

“They’re so wrong for that,” wrote one fan. “HBO know what they’re doing,” said another. “Someone is getting a raise,” added a third.

Pascal previously teased that the second season of The Last Of Us would be “fucking heartbreaking” before calling the showrunners “sick people”. However it’s not been confirmed if the TV show will follow the events of the game.

Addressing gamers who think they know what’s going to happen in the The Last Of Us season two, showrunner Craig Mazin said: “I think you probably should expect the unexpected. We won’t always do the things you think we’re going to do.”

“Sometimes we do the things you thought we were going to do in a different way, at a different time,” he added. “All I can say is that if you give us your trust, by the time we get to the end of the season, I think you’ll be happy.”

In a four-star review of the new season, NME wrote: “At its best, The Last Of Us is unsettling enough to make you question your own hypothetical moral code. When every day is about survival and making sense of post-apocalyptic chaos, does taking a life become easier, or somehow even harder? This show doesn’t just go deep narratively – it also cuts deep emotionally.”

In other news, Xbox chief Phil Spencer is seemingly not interested in a big screen adaptation of Call Of Duty, despite the success of A Minecraft Movie.

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