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Warning : This clause hold major spoiler forThe Last of Usseason 2 .
thing are go to get big , sadder , and — somehow — even darker inThe Last of Usseason 2 . That wo n’t come as much of a surprisal to those who have played 2020’sThe Last of Us Part II . The infamously dissentious game shocked actor four class ago with its unexpected bend and grim ferocity . Now , based onits late trailer , it looks likeThe Last of Usseason 2 is going to stick somewhat intimately to the bleak path lay by its parent game .
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The prevue is overflowing with images and scenes that will expect very familiar toPart IIplayers , as well as coup d’oeil of new characters like Jesse ( Young Mazino ) , Dina ( Alien : Romulusstar Isabela Merced ) , Isaac ( Jeffrey Wright ) , and — most notable of all — Abby ( Kaitlyn Dever ) . Asone observant buff recently note , the teaser also features one extremely easy - to - miss callback toThe Last of Us Part II .
The reference in question is n’t an figure of speech or a prop but a speech sound . It is specifically the shrill whimper that suddenly cuts off the trailer ’s melancholic Pearl Jam song and overtakes its second half . The exact same ringing tone is employed to outstanding force inThe Last of Us Part II‘s darkest and most infamous scenery when(again , mollycoddler alert!)Abby kills Joel with one last merciless swing music of a golf night club . Players hear the club strike Joel ’s head , and then the luxuriously - pitched whine overtakes everything in the view — except the halter breathlessness of Ashley Johnson ’s Ellie .
Last of Usfanshave been speculating for years now about how the HBO series will handle the unwieldy , fractured , and oppressively sullen story of its franchise ’s second game . At the centre of those conversation has always been Joel ’s demise . How ahead of time in the season will he die ? Will his new scenery unfold in chronological order ? Or in a staggered flashback contour like they do inThe Last of Us Part II ? Neither this Easter egg norThe Last of Usseason 2 ’s trailer answers those questions .
That say , the cellular inclusion of such a specific audio pull in it clear , in sheath the trailer ’s many recognizablePart IIscenes did n’t , that fans should expect to experience the same sort of jarring heartbreak that the 2020 game offers when the HBO series returns . The fact that the aforementioned whine get-go in the trailer during a shot of — presumptively — the fatal first confluence between Pedro Pascal ’s Joel and Dever ’s Abby only makes its reprisal here experience all the more intentional and target .
The Last of Usseason 2 is arrange to premiere on HBO sometime in 2025 .
