‘The Last Of Us’ TV Bosses On “Moving The Bar Up” For Season 2 — Deadline FYC House + HBO MAX
deadline.comAward-winning writer-directors Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin joined the Deadline FYC House event on Friday to discuss their HBO record-breaking drama, The Last of Us.
Based on the video game series co-created by Druckmann, the TV series takes place two decades after modern civilization collapsed from exposure to a deadly mutable fungus.
The story follows a hardened survivor named Joel (Pedro Pascal), hired to smuggle Ellie (Bella Ramsey), a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone in hopes of uncovering the mystery—and potential cure for humanity—behind her immunity.
Since the show’s January debut, The Last of Us has continued to set records for both HBO and HBO Max. For the first four weeks, its audience grew consecutively larger after first amassing 4.7 million viewers just from its premiere episode alone, making it the largest same-day debut after House of the Dragon.
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