‘The Last of Us’ Will Need a 4th Season to Finish Its Story

Next season of The Last of Us won’t be the last of it. In a new interview, the show’s co-creator Craig Mazin said that the upcoming third season of the show will not finish the story of the second video game, The Last of Us Part II. “There’s no way to complete this narrative in a third season,” Mazin said. “Hopefully, we’ll earn our keep enough to come back and finish it in a fourth. That’s the most likely outcome.” The quote comes from an extensive interview with Collider where Mazin, ahead of the upcoming season two finale, spoke about working on the third season, which HBO officially greenlit a few weeks back. “It would take forever,” Mazin said about finishing the events of the second game in the third season. “There are natural perforations in the narrative where you can go, ‘Okay, let’s tear it here.’ I think there’s a decent chance that season three will be longer than season two, just because the manner of that narrative and the opportunities it affords us are a little differe ... Read full article.