HBO dropped a full trailer for The Final of Us Season 2 on Saturday, March 8, and followers — particularly these accustomed to the video video games on which the post-apocalyptic drama is predicated — have goosebumps.
“Chills throughout me,” one YouTube commenter wrote. “The visuals are insane. However I do know what’s coming, and I’m not even remotely ready.”
One other mentioned, “This appears insane. … I’m gonna be an emotional wreck this season.”
Followers have additionally been highlighting particular elements of the trailer, lots of that are callbacks to the video games. Listed below are a few of these particulars.
Potential spoilers for The Final of Us Season 2 forward!
The birthday flashback
To listen to YouTube commenters inform it, the Season 2 trailer contains a pivotal second from the online game franchise, particularly 2020’s The Final of Us Half II.
“The truth that we’re a minimum of getting the birthday flashback makes me so comfortable,” one particular person wrote.
“One of many solely correctly nice bits of the second sport,” anyone else mentioned.
And a 3rd commenter wrote, “Ellie’s birthday episode gonna be the top of me.”
Spores
The Season 2 trailer additionally reveals one cordyceps-infected corpse spewing a inexperienced cloud from its mouth.
“Guys, spores are confirmed!” one commenter mentioned. “When you bear in mind, spores weren’t within the first season; now they’re in Season 2!”
The Final of Us author and co-creator Neil Druckmann informed Polygon he and his collaborators on the TV present opted to make use of cordyceps tendrils because the vector for an infection as a substitute of spores in Season 1 in order that the characters wouldn’t need to put on fuel masks on a regular basis. But it surely seems they’ve modified their thoughts for Season 2.
One other particular person wrote, “Spores? Oh, we cooked.”
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Jeffrey Wright
Jeffrey Wright has joined the forged of The Final of Us, taking part in Isaac, the identical character he voiced within the second TLOU online game.
The character is described as “the quietly highly effective chief of a big militia group who sought liberty however as a substitute has grow to be mired in an countless conflict in opposition to a surprisingly resourceful enemy,” per Selection.
“Jeffrey Wright returning as Issac goes to be legendary,” one commenter mentioned.
One other wrote, “I like when voice actors return to play their sport counterparts.”
The Nirvana music
Some followers praised the orchestral cowl of Nirvana’s “You Know You’re Proper” that underscores the trailer’s motion. Launched in 2002, the music was the final one the rock band recorded earlier than the 1994 loss of life of lead singer Kurt Cobain.
“The very fact they selected ‘You Know You’re Proper’ by Nirvana because the theme music, OMG,” one particular person wrote.
“Love that Nirvana monitor,” mentioned one other.
These final two phrases
On the finish ofThe Final of Us Season 1, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) was able to die to assist the Fireflies exploit her immunity for a cordyceps treatment. Whereas she was unconscious, nonetheless, Joel (Pedro Pascal) killed the Fireflies’ physician and took Ellie out of the hospital. Then he lied to her and mentioned that the Fireflies had discovered different immune folks and that they nonetheless couldn’t discover a treatment, and he swore to her that his phrases have been true.
In Season 2, it appears, the jig is up. The trailer ends with a tearful Ellie confronting Joel, saying, “You swore.”
That easy line of dialogue is hitting followers exhausting. “‘You swore,’ and Joel’s coronary heart broke in a thousand items,” one YouTube commenter wrote. “I really feel unhealthy for each of them — such an not possible scenario. Love this present a lot!”
One other particular person wrote, “‘You swore.’ Oh my god, that is going to be a superb season.”
The Final of Us, Season 2 Premiere, Sunday, April 13, 9/8c, HBO & Max