‘The Final of Us’ Will Want a 4th Season to End Its Story

Subsequent season of The Final of Us gained’t be the final of it. In a brand new interview, the present’s co-creator Craig Mazin said that the upcoming third season of the present won’t end the story of the second online game, The Last of Us Part II. “There’s no method to full this narrative in a 3rd season,” Mazin mentioned. “Hopefully, we’ll earn our preserve sufficient to return again and end it in a fourth. That’s the almost certainly consequence.”

The quote comes from an intensive interview with Collider the place Mazin, ahead of the upcoming season two finale, spoke about engaged on the third season, which HBO officially greenlit a few weeks back. “It will take without end,” Mazin mentioned about ending the occasions of the second sport within the third season. “There are pure perforations within the narrative the place you possibly can go, ‘Okay, let’s tear it right here.’ I feel there’s an honest probability that season three will probably be longer than season two, simply because the style of that narrative and the alternatives it affords us are slightly completely different. The factor about Joel’s demise is that it’s so impactful. It’s such a story nuclear bomb that it’s onerous to wander off from it. We will’t actually take a break and transfer off to the facet and do a Invoice and Frank story. I’m unsure that may essentially be true for season three. I feel we’ll have slightly extra room there.”

Audiences haven’t but seen the place season two ends, but it surely actually appears to be aiming at one of many second sport’s greatest “perforations” that Mazin mentions. Assuming the sport’s massive perspective shift is the top of this season, there’s undoubtedly much more story to go, but it surely’s a little bit of a shock to listen to Mazin flat out say they don’t wish to wrap it up subsequent season.

Fortunately, Mazin confirms that they don’t begin writing something till—not simply the upcoming season is deliberate, however even additional prematurely. “We all the time assume forward,” he mentioned. “We thought forward to season three and season 4, to attempt to get as a lot visibility as we are able to, in order that we don’t find yourself in a scenario the place we’re sitting down and entering into particulars for a season after which going, ‘Oh, man, if solely we hadn’t had that particular person say that one line or be in that spot or put on that jacket, this is able to be a lot cooler.’ So, we actually do attempt to assume issues via essentially. The problem for our first season was, how can we inform this massive story in a method that’s full and doable inside an period of time and with the price range we’ve? And with this season, it was, ‘Okay, this supply materials goes method past one season.’”

In actual fact, it would take three seasons. The season two finale of The Final of Us airs Sunday; we’ll have far more then.

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