HBO has released its first teaser for the second season of The Last of Us.
HBO has released its first teaser for the second season of The Last of Us.
The teaser is short, but gives us a look at some returning and new faces coming to the second season. New faces include Kaitlyn Dever as Abby and Catherine O’Hara’s still to be named character (although previous rumours suggested her character will be called Gail).
You can check out the teaser below, towards the end of HBO’s latest sizzle reel. It starts at around the 01:15 mark. After the trailer, I will be breaking down a few bits I noticed, so please be aware of spoilers for The Last of Us Part 2 (the video game) below.
The first clip we see is panning down on a party scene, lit up by fairy lights. The back of a girl’s head can be seen, as she watches out over the dance floor.
This is Bella Ramsey’s Ellie, and the scene shown here is basically a carbon copy from that same moment in the game.
While the above footage is playing, we hear a woman’s voice asking „Did you hurt her?“, to which Pedro Pascal’s Joel replies: „No.“ The trailer then pans to Ellie’s scared arm, and her tattoo.
In the game, it is revealed that between the events of The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part 2, Ellie covers her bite mark (which she received in the shopping mall with her friend Riley during the series‘ DLC, Left Behind) first with a chemical burn and later, by getting her ex-girlfriend Cat to tattoo over the area.
The moment shared in HBO’s teasers appears to be Ellie getting the tattoo, suggesting that we may meet Cat during the show’s second season (or, this is just a brief flashback scene and Cat’s hands may be all we get to see).
After seeing Ellie’s arm, we get to see the lady who was speaking to Joel, and it’s Catherine O’Hara’s character.
