The first full trailer for The Last of Us Season 2 is formally right here, giving us a take a look at Ellie and Joel 5 years after the occasions of the first season.
In the new season, creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann are beginning to take viewers via the occasions of the second recreation, The Last of Us Half 2, and followers of the video games will recognise lots of acquainted faces, in addition to some new ones.
However alongside lastly seeing parts from The Last of Us Half 2 in live-action, there are additionally lots of hidden particulars and Easter eggs sprinkled all through the teaser, in addition to some model new scenes which have sparked some tin-foil hat theories. So learn on for all the pieces we caught in The Last of Us Season 2 teaser trailer and what we expect may be occurring. Don’t fear, we’ll hold issues spoiler-free, apart from at the finish the place we’ll offer you a giant ol’ warning.
Acquainted Faces and Locations
Bella Ramsey is reprising their function as Ellie. Set 5 years after the occasions of the first season, Ramsey’s Ellie is now residing in Jackson, Wyoming. In case you don’t recall, that’s the city from Episode 6 of Season 1 the place Joel is reunited along with his brother Tommy.
Talking of Joel, the teaser exhibits a Miller mailbox, illustrating that the Texan has additionally totally settled in Jackson after the occasions of season one. If their residing conditions correlate on to these from the recreation, we are able to infer that Ellie’s moved into her own residence at this cut-off date and Joel is staying close by in the city.
Whereas they have been touring companions in the first season of The Last of Us, Ellie and Joel appear extra distant in Jackson, as signaled by the stern look given by Ellie as she approaches her former journey buddy’s porch. Joel may be seen plucking away at his guitar, getting ready to have a dialog along with his proxy-daughter. For those who’ve performed the recreation, you’ll know the significance of the dialog about available right here…
Gabriel Luna additionally returns as Joel’s brother, Tommy. He was final seen welcoming Joel and Ellie to Jackson, Wyoming the place he lives as half of a bigger commune of survivors. In the teaser Tommy is holding his trusty rifle, which is smart given his expertise for long-range capturing – one thing he passes on to Ellie in the online game.
He seems to be on as one thing approaches the partitions of Jackson. Moments later, the teaser suggests Jackson comes below assault by Contaminated and we all know that Tommy has a considerably management function in the neighborhood.
Tommy is proven along with his spouse Maria performed by Rutina Wesley. Last time we noticed her she was pregnant, that means there might nicely be a small baby working round Jackson someplace. Tommy is wanting injured and the two look distraught over one thing. Given what we learn about the recreation, this may very well be about any quantity of occasions that occur, however is probably both a response to the aftermath of the contaminated assault on Jackson, or one thing a lot worse.
All through the trailer we are able to hear Future Days by Pearl Jam. That is the similar music Joel performs for Ellie at the begin of The Last of Us Half 2. Weirdly, this music is considerably of an anachronism as the music was launched in October 2013, however the zombie outbreak in the recreation started in September 2013, weeks previous to the album’s launch.
The HBO collection truly began its zombie outbreak a decade earlier in 2003. In fact, in the trailer this music is used fully non-diegetically, that means that Joel isn’t taking part in it himself right here. It could definitely be odd for him to play a music that wouldn’t have but been written by Eddie Vedder in the present’s timeline, so we marvel what grunge deep-cut he’ll go for as a substitute to keep away from creating some type of Pearl Jam paradox.
And here’s a nearer take a look at the guitar Joel items to Ellie, full with the iconic moth design on the neck. The guitar options closely in The Last of Us Half 2 as an merchandise that connects Ellie and Joel, provided that he teaches her how you can play the instrument. It symbolizes the father-daughter relationship between the two and is an everlasting half of their connection.
That moth can be seen on Ellie’s forearm tattoo that she acquired to cowl up her contaminated chew. The symbolism of the animal being is that regardless of how darkish issues get, you all the time have to attract your self to the mild in the world – one thing simpler mentioned than accomplished in the world of The Last of Us.
Simply after this, we see an actual copy of an early scene from the recreation the place Joel is singing the aforementioned Pearl Jam music to Ellie, persevering with the present’s behavior of recreating cherished recollections shot-for-shot from its supply materials.
New characters for Season Two
We’re going to see both Ellie or Joel play the guitar fairly just a few occasions this season, absolutely. Right here Ellie is taking part in a guitar she finds in a Seattle music store for Dina. Possibly it’s pleasant, perhaps it’s one thing extra.
In the recreation, this elective second sees Ellie play Tackle Me by A-Ha. Though it’s not a required half of the gameplay, this second is one of the most memorable from the video games.
In the second season of The Last of Us, Dina is performed by Isabella Merced. You would possibly acknowledge her from Alien Romulus. Whereas she’s additionally somebody who grew up after the outbreak and is ready to maintain her personal in phrases of survival, she’s bought a really totally different outlook on life than Ellie, exhibiting that many individuals have tailored otherwise to the post-apocalyptic world.
Younger Mazino from Netflix’s Beef might be taking part in Jesse, one other resident of Jackson who’s launched in The Last of Us Half 2. A good friend to each Ellie and Dina, we suspect that Jesse may be extra essential in the third season if certainly HBO decides to separate up the second recreation into a number of seasons.
This shot of Ellie and Dina using round the city’s perimeters as half of a routine safety obligation echoes an early mission from the recreation, by which Ellie and Dina tackle a scouting mission round Jackson.
You possibly can see an contaminated strategy Ellie on this one scene. It definitely seems to be like the retailer that Dina and Ellie should combat their approach out of when patrolling the outskirts of Jackson in the recreation. However whereas this second serves as a tutorial phase in The Last of Us Half Two, it precedes a series of occasions that may alter Ellie’s life without end.
One other recreation of a second from the recreation, this time early on in Seattle the place Ellie and Dina journey via the metropolis’s underground subway tunnels. The crimson mild matches that of the recreation as they encounter a number of contaminated and clickers. We’ve been promised much more contaminated in season two of the present, and this can be a nice instance of the horror they bring about.
A shot of Ellie’s knife, the one left to her by her mom may be seen her. Ellie’s mother was a much bigger half of the HBO collection than in the online game, so maybe the present will increase even additional on Ellie’s relationship along with her mom in the second season. We can also see the return of Ashley Johnson, who performed Ellie’s mom in the HBO collection and voiced Ellie in the video video games as additional pages from the American Dream prequel comedian could also be referenced.
Ellie could be very upset about one thing. Realizing this story, it may very well be one of a quantity of issues however we’ll take a swing and assume we’d know what second this follows. We gained’t spoil that one right here, although. For those who assume you recognize, then be a part of the membership.
Kaitlyn Dever makes her first look as Abby, as Catherine O’Hara’s anonymous character (extra on her in a bit) asks Joel, “What did you do?” Which if you recognize, you recognize.
It’s also possible to see a series hanging from the fence publish behind Abby, which can be a nod to at least one of the collectible canine tags from The Last of Us Half 2, in order that’s a enjoyable easter egg if that’s the case.
Abby is trapped between a wall and a collapsing fence, below siege from contaminated. It is a shot-for-shot recreation of a sequence from The Last of Us Half 2’s opening hours.
A mysterious stranger with a gun saves Abby from an Contaminated. Who’s it? Primarily based on what we all know from the recreation it’s probably Joel who’s come to assist.
Two horses are seen galloping, probably away from the contaminated horde. Shot in the darkish guess it’s Joel, Abby, and Tommy.
That is our first take a look at a Seraphite, typically often called “Scars”. They’re a cult-like group from Seattle and one of the enemy factions Ellie fights in opposition to in the recreation. They’re additionally the enemies of the WLF (Washington Liberation Entrance), who Abby is a member of.
The Seraphites worship the Prophet, a girl who had a imaginative and prescient that people ought to return to residing off of the land once more, and abandon trendy expertise. This mural is in reference to her.
In the similar approach the first season of The Last of Us explored the lives of peripheral characters like Invoice in additional element, maybe we’ll see extra backstory for The Prophet – how she turned a saint to her following, and how she establishes the Seraphites in Seattle?
It is a shot of the WLF breaching a room. The WLF’s reliance on weaponry and brute pressure is the polar reverse of the nature-embracing Seraphites, and we anticipate to see this dynamic play out in larger element when Ellie and Dina make their option to Seattle and see these two factions up shut.
Ellie is seen returning hearth with an computerized rifle, a weapon she wields in the recreation. It’s unclear, although, whether or not she’s firing at the WLF troopers in the shot earlier than. The magic of enhancing!
A captured Seraphite is chained to a wall. Their captor is the chief of the WLF, Isaac Dixon, performed by Jeffrey Wright. Wright reprises his function from the recreation, by which he voiced and mo-capped Dixon. This isn’t the first time this has occurred in The Last of Us HBO collection as Merle Dandridge additionally performed the live-action model of Marlene, chief of the Fireflies, whom she voiced in The Last of Us Half 1.
Issues Not From the Game
It was beforehand introduced that Catherine O’Hara, finest identified most lately from reprising her function as Delia Deetz in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, can be becoming a member of the forged of The Last of Us in Season 2. Nonetheless, particulars of her character weren’t revealed. It now seems that she might be taking part in an authentic character, seemingly a therapist. She’s launched speaking to Pedro Pascal’s Joel, who we see with longer hair right here. He additionally seems to be grappling along with his actions from the finish of the first season, therefore why he may be in search of out O’Hara’s presumed therapist in residence in Jackson, Wyoming.
We don’t know who she is for certain, although. Might it even be that she’s the aforementioned Seraphite prophet? A protracted shot, seeing as she’s lengthy lifeless in the recreation, however it wouldn’t be the first time the present has made a giant change. Trailers may be artful and she may not truly even be talking to Joel on this scene, in spite of everything.
That is one other second not seen in the recreation is a horde of contaminated charging in direction of Jackson. Is that this why Tommy was seen carrying his rifle earlier?
The contaminated horde from earlier return as they slam into the barricades of Jackson. It’s price noting that no such occasion happens in the recreation, so we’re seeing one thing new right here. This will play into the concept that the occasions of the recreation could also be modified to mirror authentic idea artwork of Abby being welcomed into the neighborhood of Jackson as she, Tommy, and Joel escape from the oncoming horde we noticed them escaping from earlier.
Right here’s the place we going to enter spoiler territory for the recreation, so for those who haven’t performed it, we’d suggest you cease watching now.
SPOILER WARNING
In The Last of Us Half 2, Abby shockingly places an finish to Joel’s newfound homely existence by introducing his cranium to a golf membership. All of it occurs in a short time, however Druckmann later defined early drafts of the story we totally different, and that “Abby joined the neighborhood and you have been taking part in as this new character till she betrayed Joel in a while. And it simply did not work as a result of Joel dying is the inciting incident, and you need to get to the inciting incident as rapidly as you possibly can.”
Might we see that model of occasions happen in season two of the present? The reality {that a} horde of contaminated is charging towards Jackson might imply that Joel and Abby are being chased again to the settlement as a substitute of the chalet, which is the setting of his online game demise. Clearly, it’s all guesswork at this level, however it could be an fascinating approach for the season to go and give us a bit of extra valuable Pedro Pascal time.
And that’s all the recreation particulars we noticed in the first trailer for The Last of Us Season 2. Will Joel educate Ellie Future Days, a music that shouldn’t exist in the collection? Possibly it’ll be a special Pearl Jam music, or one thing else altogether. Tell us in the feedback what you assume it may very well be. The return of this model of the apocalypse will arrive in the type of seven episodes on HBO someday in 2025.