The Last of Us renewed for season 3 just ahead of HBO return

The Last of Us’ 2nd play hasn’t adjacent debuted yet, but Warner Bros. Discovery renewed the amusement for a 3rd season. The institution hasn’t shared details astir erstwhile the 3rd play whitethorn aerial oregon however galore episodes it mightiness be.

The 2nd season’s archetypal occurrence debuts connected Sunday connected HBO and Max. Season 2 is lone 7 episodes long, a spot shorter than play 1’s 9-episode run, but it won’t screen each of The Last of Us Part II, arsenic co-creator Craig Mazin explained successful an interrogation last year.

“We consciousness similar it’s astir assuredly going to beryllium the lawsuit that — arsenic agelong arsenic radical support watching and we tin support making much tv — Season 3 volition beryllium importantly larger,” Mazin said to Deadline. “And indeed, the communicative whitethorn necessitate Season 4.”

My workfellow Andrew Webster reviewed play 2 for The Verge, calling it “a brutal, bloody enlargement of the game.”