HBO har haft massiv succes med deres seriefortolkning af The Last of Us, som sidste år høstede enormt flotte anmeldelser, og blev et stort seerhit. Nu er produktionen undervejs på den anden sæson, og vi ved nu at denne kommer til at blive kortere end den første sæson.
I et interview med Deadline fortæller seriens skaber, Craig Mazin, som betragtes som værende en af de primære årsager til seriens succes, at de ledte efter et naturligt "breakpoint" i forhold til fortolkningen af The Last of Us: Part II, og det skete efter syv episoder.
"The story material that we got from Part II of the game is way more than the story material that was in the first game, so part of what we had to do from the start was figure out how to tell that story across seasons. When you do that, you look for natural breakpoints, and as we laid it out, this season, the national breakpoint felt like it came after seven episodes".
Desuden er Mazin tilsyneladende ret vild med ideen om at lave fire sæsoner i alt af The Last of Us.
"We don't think that we're going to be able to tell the story even within two seasons [2 and 3] because we're taking our time and go down interesting pathways which we did a little bit in Season 1 too. We feel like it's almost assuredly going to be the case that — as long as people keep watching and we can keep making more television — Season 3 will be significantly larger. And indeed, the story may require Season 4 (...) One thing is absolutely for sure, I don't see how we could tell the story that remains after Season 2 is complete in one more season."