{"id":21998,"date":"2025-01-07T11:06:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T16:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/hbo-slates-the-last-of-us-season-two-debut\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T11:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T16:12:24","slug":"hbo-slates-the-last-of-us-season-two-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/hbo-slates-the-last-of-us-season-two-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Slates The Last of Us Season Two Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HBO has slated the debut of the seven-episode second season of <em>The Last of Us<\/em> for April.<\/p>\n<p>Set five years after the events of the first season, the new episodes see Joel and Ellie drawn into conflict with each other in a world even more dangerous than the one they left behind. Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey return as Joel and Ellie, respectively, alongside new cast members such as Kaitlyn Dever and Isabela Merced.<\/p>\n<p>The returning cast features Gabriel Luna and Retina Wesley, while the new cast also includes Young Mazino, Ariela Barer, Tati Gabrielle, Spencer Lord, Danny Ramirez and Jeffrey Wright. Catherine O\u2019Hara also guest stars.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Last of Us<\/em> series, based on the video game franchise of the same name developed by Naughty Dog for PlayStation consoles, is written and executive produced by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann. It is a co-production with Sony Pictures Television and is also executive produced by Carolyn Strauss, Jacqueline Lesko, Cecil O\u2019Connor, Asad Qizilbash, Carter Swan and Evan Wells, as well as writer and co-executive producer Halley Gross.<\/p>\n<p>Season two will air on HBO and stream on Max in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBO has slated the debut of the seven-episode second season of The Last of Us for April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":21999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[431,8272,5930,174,3750],"class_list":["post-21998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-hbo","tag-max","tag-naughty-dog","tag-sony-pictures-television","tag-the-last-of-us","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HBO Slates The Last of Us Season Two Debut - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/hbo-slates-the-last-of-us-season-two-debut\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HBO Slates The Last of Us Season Two Debut - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"HBO has slated the debut of the seven-episode second season of The Last of Us for April.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/hbo-slates-the-last-of-us-season-two-debut\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-01-07T16:06:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-07T16:12:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/01\/HBO-TheLastofUsSeasonTwo-0125.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"394\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/hbo-slates-the-last-of-us-season-two-debut\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/hbo-slates-the-last-of-us-season-two-debut\/\",\"name\":\"HBO Slates The Last of Us Season Two Debut - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-07T16:06:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-07T16:12:24+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/hbo-slates-the-last-of-us-season-two-debut\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/hbo-slates-the-last-of-us-season-two-debut\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/hbo-slates-the-last-of-us-season-two-debut\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"HBO Slates The Last of Us Season Two Debut\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\",\"name\":\"TVDRAMA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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