Max confirms The Last of Us season 2 won't arrive until 2025

After becoming one of Max's most-streamed shows of all time and earning 24 nominations at 2023's Emmys, HBO and PlayStation Productions' The Last of Us series won't be back until 2025.That was the logical assumption because of all the lost development time caused by the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes this year, but it's now been confirmed by Max via its 2024 preview trailer, which also includes a look further into the streaming service's future.This delay isn't actually that huge, as pre-strike plans already had TLOU aiming for a late 2024 or early 2025 premiere. According to co-star Bella Ramsey, this was due to Pedro Pascal's many commitments elsewhere, as well as all the pre-production work needed to ready a much more complex second volume of episodes when it comes to things like locations and sets. Read more