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The Last of Us season 2 has some more changes to the game's plot in store for fans, according to the showrunners
After they emotionally destroyed us with Bill and Frank's story in season one, The Last of Us showrunners are prepared to hurt us again when they expand on Eugene's story in the second game.
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One of the problems with adaptations is always that we know where the story is going to go. Millions of people played The Last of Us Part II years before the series set out to adapt the events of the game into season two of the upcoming series. While we know that the second game will form the basis of The Last of Us season two, the showrunners have been quick to assure us they’ve taken a couple of creative liberties to keep us guessing.
“There are things where we don’t have the element of surprise, perhaps, the way the games did,” Craig Mazin, co-showrunner on The Last of Us alongside Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann, said in a recent interview. “A lot of people who played the [first] game understood that Joel’s daughter was going to die very quickly in the first episode. Those people weren’t surprised. They felt it because it’s the journey.”
However, just like the first season expanded on Bill and Frank’s small part in the first game to emotionally devastate us with a standalone episode, season two of The Last of Us is going to stray from the video game’s plot where needed. The character of Eugene, who was only heard about second-hand by Ellie in The Last of Us Part II, is going to get a much bigger role in the series after Mazin saw the hints that the game laid out about his fate.
Druckmann is on board with the idea as well. “I get excited when I see these opportunities,” he said in the same interview. “I’m like, ‘Oh, I don’t know Eugene that well!’ The story we told [in the game] was somewhat superficial. The way this character comes in really gets to the heart of Joel and Ellie and their relationship.”
The Last of Us season two, which will adapt the first part of the second game in the series, is set to debut on HBO on April 13, 2025.
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