The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Teases Joel's Fate

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  • To celebrate The Last of Us Day, HBO has released a new trailer for the second season of The Last of Us.
  • The trailer features some of the best looks yet from the show, including new footage of Abby, Isaac, Dinah, and more.
  • However, Joel is absent from most of the key scenes in the trailer, which seems to hint at his fate.



A new trailer for HBO's The Last of Us season 2 has been shared to celebrate The Last of Us Day, and there's a noticeable absence of Pedro Pascal's Joel. No prizes for guessing why.

Since The Last of Us launched in 2013, September 26 has been designated as “The Last of Us Day,” as it is the in-world date when the Cordyceps Virus outbreak occurred. In the years since the first game’s release, Naughty Dog has shared new details and announcements to mark the occasion.

Many fans thought this year's event would be a lot less significant than it used to be, considering there's no new game coming out, but that wasn't the case. HBO suddenly decided to release the first full trailer for The Last of Us Season 2, and it gives us our best look yet at the adaptation.



The Last Of Us trailer gives us a closer look at Season 2.

Although labeled a “teaser,” the latest look at The Last of Us Season 2 shows us much more than we’ve seen so far, including detailed looks at characters like Jesse, Abby, Isaac, and even the Seraphites. We also get to see key events from the second game reenacted, including Dina and Ellie making their way through an abandoned subway car, and Joel giving Ellie a guitar.

But the most notable thing about the trailer is how conspicuously absent Joel is from much of it. He appears with the therapist at the beginning, and makes a few appearances throughout, but for most of the footage, Joel is completely absent, and it seems like he won’t have as much of a presence as he did last time.


There are major spoilers for The Last of Us Part 2 ahead.

I've already binged enough, but the latest trailer clearly hints at Joel's ultimate fate at the beginning of the second game, when Abby kills him. Joel appears in a post-mortem flashback sequence (which you can see a little bit of in the trailer), but he's not as integral to the story as he was in the first season.

Of course, there was no way HBO could adapt The Last of Us Part 2 without Joel’s death, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that it’s going to happen. The new season is still set for “2025” and doesn’t have a specific release date, so we’ll have to wait anxiously to see what happens to his fate.

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