Pedro Pascal And Bella Ramsay HBO's upcoming second season will return for more post-apocalyptic adventures our end.

Based on the 2013 video game of the same name, the series follows Joel (Pascal), a grizzled survivor tasked with transporting Eli (Ramsey) across the country, 20 years after a zombie-like fungus, Cordyceps, wipes out much of civilization. As they continue their journey, the unlikely pair form a surrogate father-daughter bond along the way.

Following the show's premiere in January 2023, the series was created by — Craig Mazin and the game's writer and creative director, Neil Druckman — was renewed for Season 2 after airing only two of the season's nine episodes.

The second season is expected to follow the plot of the video game's 2020 sequel, Our last part IIWhich picks up a few years after the main story. Although the show has not been picked up for a third installment, Mazin previously teased that the series may need more than one season to properly portray the team. Part IIIts occurrence.

“It will take us more than a season to tell the rest of the story. But obviously, I don't see it as something that goes on and on," he said Collider In January 2023. “We don't have that ambition. Our ambition is to tell the story that exists, as best we can, in a different medium."

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