The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Breakdown: All The Easter Eggs And Video Game References

The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Breakdown

In celebration of Outbreak Day/The Last of Us Day, fans had a lot to celebrate with Sony and Steam giving fans digital collectibles and avatars, even coupons for TLOU merch. However, not to be outdone, HBO released the first trailer for Season 2 of the series, showing fans the dark days that await Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Joel (Pedro Pascal).

The trailer is stuffed with characters, references, and scenes from The Last of Us Part 2 that give us a glimpse of what is coming to the show including the Scars/Seraphites, WLF (Washington Liberation Front), and the tension building in the relationship between Joel and Ellie.

Fans have been clamoring for footage for a year now and the trailer didn't disappoint giving fans their first looks at Jesse, and Abby, and cementing some pivotal scenes from the game that will make it to the show.

While there is a lot of scenes from the game, showrunners have even promised a backstory we didn't previously experience, but the television format allows to finally tell. TLOU fans were hoping for a more concrete release date, but all we still know is sometime next year.

Now, let's take a look at the trailer and what we can expect from Season 2.

Ellie's Guitar

"Some folks call this thing here a 'gee-tar'."

Joel gifts Ellie a guitar that she doesn't accept, at first, saying she doesn't know the first thing about playing. This calls back to the first game, in which Joel promised to teach her to play. It's also clearly nodding to the second game, in which we see Ellie play the guitar.

Joel gifts her the guitar after playing Pearl Jam's Future Days, which was used for the music in the trailer. Taylor made replicas of the guitar when Part 2 hit that were an exact copy of the in-game instrument. You can even see the moth design on the neck.

Later, the guitar becomes a key symbol of their connection and the continuing theme of grief and loss.

Who Is Catherine O'Hara Playing?

Catherine O'Hara is joining up the already stacked cast with Season 2 and we're still not sure who she is playing. We got a small look at her with the teaser trailer over the summer, but now it looks like she's some sort of grief counselor or therapist.

In the trailer, she starts an egg timer and sits with Joel, asking why he thinks he did Ellie wrong. and sits with Joel about why he thinks he did Ellie wrong. In the teaser, he says it's because he saved her, but that line is gone for this trailer and she tells him to say the thing that he's afraid of out loud.

Jackson Five Years Later

At the start of TLOU2, we see that it's been five years since the end of the first game. Since that time, survivors expanded Jackson, Missouri a small, but self-sufficient establishment for themselves. There's a school, a bar, a restaurant, and everything else a small town would need.

In the first game, when Joel is reunited with his brother, Tommy, he's trying to establish a power plant. Now we see the fruit of his labors has bloomed into a safe haven for himself, his brother, and his wife, Maria along with hundreds of other townspeople.

Young Mazino As Jesse

Jesse is a farmboy who eventually found his way to the Jackson settlement and quickly became a leader of the patrol groups alongside Ellie. His relationship with Dina is on and off again, but turns serious later in the game.

In the series, Jesse is played by Young Mazino (Netflix's Beef) and will join Ellie on her quest for revenge against the WLF.

The Last Conversation

Ellie and Joel's relationship is as tense as ever after she learns the truth about the events at St. Mary's Hospital in Salt Lake City. The ramifications of saving Ellie and not giving her the choice pulls them apart, leaving their father-daughter relationship hanging on by the thinnest of threads.

Without Joel, Ellie spirals and takes her aggression out on a bigot named Seth who calls her a slur after she kisses Dina. In the game, Ellie meets Joel on his porch while he's playing guitar and he tells her Dina would be lucky to have Ellie. Ellie meets Joel's compassion and understanding with more hostility, saying she was supposed to die in the hospital.

"I would do it all over again," he tells her.

Abby Mourning Her Father

Abby Anderson is the main antagonist and Ellie's foil in TLOU2. She is on a quest for revenge, and finds it, and then finds herself on the end of Ellie's quest. The never-ending loop of grief consumes them both as they find themselves trying to one-up the amount of suffering they cause each other.

Kaitlyn Dever brings Abby to life and we'll see how the season's narrative changes, given in the games the user plays both Ellie and Abby at different times.

The Leader Of The Pack

The WLF is led by a mysterious man call Isaac, voiced by Jeffrey Wright, in TLOU2. For Season 2, the actor reprises his role as Isaac, giving us a little taste of the kind of ruthless leader he is.

Not too much is known about Isaac outside the fact he that he came to live in Seattle at some point and that he served in the United States Marine Corps.

With Wright returning to the role, it makes him the second actor from the video game series to reprise their character in the TV adaptation. The first being Merle Dandridge, who portrays Marlene.

The Seraphites And Their Religion

Alongside the Wolves and the Infected, Ellie has a new opponent to face in Season 2: The Seraphites. Commonly referred to as Scars by outsiders, these zealots mark themselves with scars symbolizing man's imperfection. They are at war with the WLF for control of Seattle.

They were led by a woman who supposedly had a vision, from which she became inspired to live an a balanced life and strive for humanity to live off the land again. The cult believes in detachment from mortal pleasures and reliance on technology.

We see some Seraphites briefly in the trailer on the hunt. In the game, they have a brutal fighting style and tend to stick to bows and arrows.

The Horde

One of the most tense moments in the game, when Abby finds herself on the run from a horde of Infected during a snowstorm. It's a chase sequence so the whole point is to try and outrun the best you can.

We see a bit more of this scene in the trailer with Abby crawling against a pressed fence with hundreds of infected on the other side. As fate would have it, this is where Joel saves her from death just as one pins her on the icy ground. Joel shoots the infected as point-blank and he shoots it point-blank, momentarily deafening Abby.

The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Breakdown: All The Easter Eggs And Video Game References

The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Breakdown: All The Easter Eggs And Video Game References

The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Breakdown: All The Easter Eggs And Video Game References

The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Breakdown: All The Easter Eggs And Video Game References

The Last Of Us Season 2 Trailer Breakdown: All The Easter Eggs And Video Game References