The Last of Us showrunner needs a Season 4 to tell the whole story

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The Last of Us showrunner needs a Season 4 to tell the whole story

Showrunner Craig Mazin might be eyeing not just a third season, but also a fourth, for HBO’s The Last of Us, with seasons two to four potentially covering the story of the second game.

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, he was asked about the plan, as the show has been running on seven or eight hour-long episodes a season. He also touched on both that part of Episode 6 Season 2 (if you know, you know) and how it was impactful and how potentially Season 3 will have a little more room and potentially longer than S2.

“I think there’s a decent chance that Season 3 will be longer than Season 2, just because the manner of that narrative and the opportunities it affords us are a little different. The thing about

is that it’s so impactful. It’s such a narrative nuclear bomb that it’s hard to wander away from it. We can’t really take a break and move off to the side and do a Bill and Frank story. I’m not sure that will necessarily be true for Season 3. I think we’ll have a little more room there. But certainly, there’s no way to complete this narrative in a third season. Hopefully, we’ll earn our keep enough to come back and finish it in a fourth. That’s the most likely outcome.”

Considering the show has already been approved for a third season, and fact of the matter even if viewership tanks, it’ll probably float on through sheer willpower of the network wanting to make it work. Only time will tell, but we have a strong hunch now that that happened, the show’s gonna hit a bit of a rough patch.

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