Note: This story contains spoilers from “The Last of Us” Season 2, Episode 1.
HBO’s adaptation of the hit Naughty Dog and PlayStation video game franchise “The Last of Us” is back, with Joel and Ellie set to face off against new threats in the brutal apocalypse.
Season 2, which takes place five years after the events of the first season and is based on the original game’s 2020 sequel “The Last of Us: Part II,” finds the pair, portrayed by Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, respectively, settled down in Jackson, Wyoming.
Over the course of seven episodes, audiences will see the impact of Joel’s decision to pull Ellie out of the Firefly hospital play out as the duo is drawn into a conflict with both each other and a world that’s even more dangerous and unpredictable than the one they left.