The Last of Us TV Show Might Be Over After Season 3

Wasn’t it always supposed to end after season 3? I don’t know why this news is so surprising.

After the horrendous 2nd season, i don't even want to see the rest of this thing

If only there was a part 3....

Probably for the best, isn’t it well *****?

I'm half surprised we're still getting season 3. How far along in development is it now?

Edit: Well it looks like it is happening in a few months. Not sure I care anymore but who knows where my brain will be by 2027.

That’s not a bad thing tbh. Season 2 fell off massively and I don’t see it recovering. Same as any third game that comes along (unless they start again with a whole new cast & writers)

I expect viewership to collapse. Any appetite for this show was already waning during season 2.

Season two was a let down to see it win at the game awards over twisted metal season 2 which wasn't even nominated was a joke.

@Zeroo if it had been doing massive numbers, they'd be handing Druckmann a blank cheque and asking him to help write a season 4 and 5.

Wrap it up! Season 2 was mostly just disappointing

@Frmknst You forgot the sarcasm tag at the end of your commemt.

This is what happens when you depart from the tone of the game so much. Should have kept Neil Druckmann on as show runner.

Still I hope they might bring Timothee Chalamet in for a small role.

The good news: it will end after the third season.
The bad news: there will be a third season.

It was a monumental mistake not to film both seasons back to back or just have one long season to cover the whole of Part 2 story, the second season being bafflingly written plus that dumb unnecessary cliffhanger killed any momentum the series had.

That last episode made Craig Mazin's previous good work look like a lucky accident.

Considering the second series is one of the worst shows I've watched over the last few years... yeah no loss there.

I wonder if Catherine O'Hara's character was supposed to be in season three? RIP to her, she's been in many classic shows and films.

Season 1, while I had some issues with, was fantastic overall. Season 2 was atrocious. Not bothering with season 3

That’s good it’s finally coming to an end. Season 2 was meh and I hope this news also means there’s no part 3 game in the works. After killing off Joel I’m happy enough to see the developers moving on from that IP for good.

Yeh I checked out mid-S2 and won’t be returning.

The casting for this thing is so off-key… I think Pedro and Bella are fine actors, but not suited for J & A.

The overall writing quality seemed to plummet also in S2. I wish they’d done more concerted fleshing out of peripheral characters …. Frank & Bill episode was really well thought out IMO

Fallout is perhaps a good example of how a show can genuinely by bolstered by an excellent cast

Praise the Lord 🙏😄

I for one am glad. Bella was just a bad cast. I think she's done alright given the fact there isn't one physical similarity to help sell her portrayal of Ellie. But it still isn't a bad show

Thank god, it was worse than fallout.

The only difference is that TLoU2 is already pretty sh*t, but what they did to New Vegas will be studied for generations.

Season two was atrocious but they had to work with crap source material! They had no hope of fixing the built in flaws. Let’s be real we all knew season would be a disaster before it was released. Part 2 was probably the biggest letdown of any media product I’ve ever known. Technically part is good and as far as gameplay is concerned! The rest of it was utter garbage

Oh well nevermind.

As far as I'm concerned the show ended after season 1, so all good. I'm not even going to watch the 3rd season even though I think Dever is a good actress (I think she is miscast as Abby).

They're playing the fools game just doing a season three.

The Bored Of Us

I don't remember if they ever talk about season 4. So it's okay to end the show with season 3. Heck, it's okay if there's no Part 3 too and let the IP take a long sleep just like Jak and Uncharted.

Good riddance.. Terrible casting.

Not a fan of either season, so I don't think I'll be bothering with season three. I'm kind of over The Last of Us in general anyway.

@Frmknst You rated Silksong 5/10 and 6/10 for KCD 2.

You might be the first person on planet earth with objectively bad taste.

Thank god.

Says it all how the 2 best episodes in both season were the ones that largely deviated from the game itself (aside from the porch scene at the end of the episode I’m talking about for S2)

Never let Craig Mazin near adaptations again, the guy is just not as talented as Chernobyl made him seem.

I don’t see how they could do a sequel to tLou2, characters seemed pretty tired of everything violent by the end of the game.

They managed to turn a story about a roaring rampage of revenge that turned a good woman into a tragic monster into a comedic road trip.
"I'm going to be a daddy!"

The Last of It.

I enjoyed season one and I thought the odd episode of season 2 was great, but overall I agree that it was underwhelming compared to the first season. My personal opinion is that this is not because of a lack of quality with the source material. Also not all seasons of great TV shows are considered equal and it's a shame it's not going to have a chance to recover, even if there isn't a third game to pull from.

Good. It's Acolyte, Star Trek Academy level crap.

Not really into these game tie in shows.
But S2 seems to be getting a lot of stick.
How does this game spin off compare to others in a good or bad way.

I know there was a Halo one and now a fallout one.

I think Nintendo got it right recently by doing the big movies with Illumination.

Haven’t seen a show tank like this in some time, especially on HBO of all places. Hopefully in a decade or so they’ll try again, or even create their own story within the same world. Great stuff there, if done right.

The thing with Sony they have definitely not been on a good run over the last few years.

last of us season 2, seems to get stick

Their big AAA campaign game production isn’t what it used to be in the PS4 era.

Some terrible GAAS products and cancellations.

Selling their whole hardware entertainment enterprise to TCL.

I think this company needs a big check up from the neck up.

Thank god consoles and services, seem to be doing pretty dam good.

I loved series 1 but felt they padded the early parts a bit and rushed the ending.

Series 2 wasn't as bad as some suggest in my opinion but definitely not as good as the first.

It is telling when you watch side by side clips of the game cut scenes and the show in most cases they had already done it better at the 1st attempt

I like s1 and s2. It makes sense that they wrap it up. It is dark story and I think they told it pretty well

@OldGamer999 "Selling their whole hardware entertainment enterprise to TCL"

No they didn't

Not sure if I'm excited. The first season, while not perfect, was genuinely pretty good and was a good example of video game adaptations done right.

Then the second season came in, and the best compliment I could give it is that it made people who hated the The Last of Us part 2 actually appreciate the game due to some of the baffling decisions that were made. It's like they wanted the season to appeal to both the fans and the non-fans, only to end up a mess compared to the first season.

@PuppetMaster
Well 51% to be far.
Makes TLC the majority share holder.
Hopefully it will work out for them.
They probably needed to do something manufacturing wise.

As in the UK a Bravia 8 I I 65” is £2200 and a Samsung S90F 65” is £1600.
Then read top end reviews and the difference is tiny, yes total quality the Sony just wins it for gaming the Samsung wins it.

It’s to close and so close to be £600 more expensive.
So hopefully the TLC merger will help that.

As the great Jeremy Clarkson once said: “Oh no! Anyway…”

It was all for nothing

This getting more coverage and winning awards over Twisted Metal and Fallout is just crazy, its absolute crap, and no lose to the tv world

Whether you like part 2 or not they absolutely butchered the story and characters.
And I didn't mind Bella in S1 but s2 really highlighted how miscast she was

Four was the original plan. One might assume they're just going to extend the third series by a couple of episodes to wrap it up to the game ending.

https://www.eurogamer.net/the-last-of-us-tv-showrunner-confirms-four-season-plan-says-no-way-to-wrap-things-up-in-three

@TruestoryYep So you narrowed down a whole nation with hundreds of millions of people to a simple definition. Also you're factually wrong about these games selling well only in America, especially KCD 2.

You're in my top 5 most unpleasant first interactions with a human being ever. Congratulations.

I watched my partner play Part 2 and I honestly cannot believe boring the ***** game was after Part 1 which was so good.

For the TV series the reason why it sank was the people who never played part 1 didn't expect Joel to die in season 2 and they moaned about it.

And season 2 was awful not because of that but Ramsey just so annoyed me, and with her attacking other celebs in the real world wouldn't be surprised they want to stop to get rid

Thank god, they won’t ruin it anymore.