HBO's The Last of Us Renewed for Season 2 - IGN

The Last of Us has officially been renewed for Season 2, HBO announced today. It follows a debut that was watched by 22 cardinal viewers domestically and rapidly became a blistery taxable connected societal media.

Rumblings of a 2nd play were already underway contempt lone 2 episodes of The Last of Us having aired, led by prima Bella Ramsey who said a renewal was apt if viewership remains high.

Episode 2 pulling successful 22% much viewers connected its opening nighttime than Episode 1 – the largest week 2 assemblage maturation for immoderate HBO archetypal play ever - was seemingly capable to person the web to fastener successful a 2nd season.

“I’m humbled, honored, and frankly overwhelmed that truthful galore radical person tuned successful and connected with our retelling of Joel and Ellie’s journey,” said enforcement shaper and Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann.

“The collaboration with Craig Mazin, our unthinkable formed and crew, and HBO exceeded my already precocious expectations. Now we person the implicit pleasance of being capable to bash it again with Season 2! On behalf of everyone astatine Naughty Dog and PlayStation, convey you.”

Fellow enforcement shaper Craig Mazin added: “I’m truthful grateful to Neil Druckmann and HBO for our partnership, and I’m adjacent much grateful to the millions of radical who person joined america connected this journey. The assemblage has fixed america the accidental to continue, and arsenic a instrumentality of the characters and satellite Neil and Naughty Dog created, I couldn’t beryllium much acceptable to dive backmost in.”

The archetypal occurrence of The Last of Us was uploaded to YouTube for free up of the Season 2 announcement arsenic HBO looks to gully successful adjacent much viewers to its adaptation. While the amusement has remained largely faithful to the archetypal PlayStation game, it’s besides not been acrophobic to shingle things up, and fans tin spot however the communicative of Joel and Ellie continues (alongside Nick Offerman’s Bill) successful Episode 3 connected January 29.

In our 9/10 reappraisal of Season 1, IGN said: “HBO's The Last of Us is simply a stunning adaptation that should thrill newcomers and enrich those already acquainted with Joel and Ellie's travel alike.”

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer and acting UK quality editor. He'll speech astir The Witcher each day.