Watch Joel and Ellie’s emotional standoff in trailer for ‘The Last Of Us’ season two

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The Last Of Us has been released, showing an emotional standoff between Ellie and Joel – watch below.READ MORE: ‘The Last Of Us’ review: an apocalyptically good video game portHBO’s post-apocalyptic drama show is returning on April 13, with Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal returning as the two lead characters who are attempting to survive in a world where civilisation has been destroyed by the outbreak of a mass fungal infection.On Saturday (March 8), the first full trailer was unveiled during a panel discussion at SXSW.

It catches up with Ellie and Joel, five years after we left them at the climax of season one.They are seen navigating their way through a forest, interspersed with glimpses of Joel explaining the reality of their world to his five-year-old nephew Benjamin.

With the zombie-like creatures still on the rampage, the trailer ends on a tense, emotional exchange between Ellie and Joel, with her questioning how honest he has been with her.Watch here:It appears to refer to the ending of season one, in which Joel refused to let doctors from the resistance take Ellie’s life as an experiment to develop their vaccine against the infection.

Joel told Ellie that her immunity to the pandemic had proven useless in developing a cure, which the audience knows not to be true.