Good things take time. It may be the end of the world, but was just the beginning of the story. Season 1 of HBO’s video game adaptation starred Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey as protagonists Joel and Ellie and covered the events of the first game, with a couple of bonus stories thrown in for good measure.
But has a much bigger story, and the showrunners are prepared to stretch the narrative to explore all its possibilities. In doing so, however, Season 2 could be quite different from the freshman outing. In a conversation with , co-creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann revealed that while production for Season 2 is underway, it will be shorter than Season 1, with only seven episodes compared to Season 1’s nine.
“What we had to do from the start was figure out how to tell that story across seasons,” Mazin said. “When you do that, you look for natural breakpoints, and as we laid it out, this season, the national breakpoint felt like it came after seven episodes.” Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann may have managed to stretch two games into four seasons.
This doesn’t mean the events of will be rushed. The showrunners had previously revealed the sequel game would be depicted across two seasons, but now it’s looking like the whole show could somehow run for four seasons. “One thing is absolutely for sure, I don’t see how we could tell the story that remains after Season 2 is complete in one more season,” Mazin said.
That implies we’ll see more of what made Sea.
