The Last of Us Season 2 Trailer Breaks HBO Records Nearly a Month Before It Begins

The 2nd play of The Last of Us hasn’t adjacent arrived yet, but its looming beingness is already making a splash.

The show’s astir caller trailer for Season 2, which was released during a SXSW panel, has garnered implicit 158 cardinal views crossed platforms successful conscionable 3 days, according to numbers provided by Warner Brothers Discovery. The streamer claimed this is simply a grounds for HBO and Max archetypal programming, and that this trailer has outperformed erstwhile promos for the amusement by “at slightest 160%”

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The amusement seems to lone beryllium increasing successful popularity arsenic fans caller and aged alike hold patiently for Season 2’s arrival. The Season 1 episodes are averaging “around 32 cardinal cross-platform viewers” domestically, which is simply a immense leap from the numbers of, say, Season 1’s finale. It racked up an awesome 8.2 cardinal same-day viewers crossed platforms erstwhile it aired successful March 2023, according to Deadline. Clearly, folks are excitedly getting acceptable for the adjacent limb of the communicative with a small rewatch, but this immense leap successful numbers says a batch astir conscionable however large this bid really is. It’s decidedly 1 of the astir palmy for HBO successful caller years, but the anticipation and emotion toward the amusement is undeniable with numbers similar these.

The Last of Us volition marque a five-year clip leap for Season 2, and travel Joel and Ellie arsenic they are “drawn into struggle with each different and a satellite adjacent much unsafe and unpredictable than the 1 they near behind.” Stars Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna, and Rutina Wesley are acceptable to return, with dense hitters similar Kaitlyn Dever, Isabella Merced, Catherine O’Hara, and Jeffrey Wright joining the formed alongside them this season.

At the SXSW panel, showrunners Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin confirmed “spores are back” pursuing their omission from Season 1. The trailer teased the instauration of spores aft they were near retired of Season 1; we spot Ellie, played by Bella Ramsey, presumption an infected whose enactment releases the spores.

Druckmann said determination is "an escalation of numbers and types of infected, but also, arsenic you spot successful the trailer, an escalation of the vector of however this happening spreads" successful The Last of Us Season 2, adding: "Season 1, we had this caller happening that wasn’t successful the crippled of these tendrils that spread, and that was 1 form. And past 1 changeable you spot successful this trailer, determination are things successful the air."

Mazin aboriginal confirmed "spores are back," earlier Druckmann added: "The crushed [we’re doing it now], I mean, we truly wanted to fig it out, and again, everything has to beryllium drama. There had to beryllium a melodramatic crushed of introducing it now. And determination is."

Season 2 of The Last of Us premieres April 13, 2025 connected HBO and HBO Max.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.