Season 1 followed the events of 2013’s Last of Us, but it made some key deviations as well like devoting an entire episode to the love story between Frank and Bill. In the Season finale, meanwhile, we saw Ellie’s mom on screen for the first time and got a clue for how Ellie is immune to the cordyceps fungus.

Season 2 seems like it’ll follow a similar formula. Mazin told The Hollywood Reporter that, “[Season 2] will be different just as [Season 1] was different.” But just how different and how much divergence will there be from the source material? Mazin said, “Sometimes it will be different radically. It won’t be exactly like the game. It will be the show that Neil and I want to make.”

One difference we know about is that Abby will not be as buff as she is in the game.

Druckmann told Entertainment Weekly that part of it came down simply to casting. “We would’ve struggled to find someone as good as Kaitlyn to play this role,” he said. He also pointed out how the game and the TV show were never aiming to offer the same kind of experience.

In the game, you play as both Ellie and Abby, and for a video game, it was important that they play differently, Druckmann said. “We needed Ellie to feel smaller and kind of maneuver around, and Abby was meant to play more like Joel in that she’s almost like a brute in the way she can physically manhandle certain things,” he said. In the TV show, though, the team is doing something else.

“That doesn’t play as big of a role in this version of the story because there’s not as much violent action moment to moment. It’s more about the drama. I’m not saying there’s no action here. It’s just, again, different priorities and how you approach it,” he said.

For his part, Mazin said he was excited by the opportunity to present Abby as someone who is “physically more vulnerable” than she was in the game, “but whose spirit is stronger.”

Druckmann went on to assure fans that Dever was the right choice for the role of Abby. “Kaitlyn has the spirit of the game in her,” Druckmann said. “When you look at Kaitlyn, there’s just something in her eyes where, even no matter what she’s experiencing, you connect. It was important that we found somebody that we could connect to the way we connect to Bella.”

Beyond that, the timeline in The Last of Us Season 2 won’t be the same as the game, but it’s not clear how just yet.

Whatever the case, Mazin has said he expects fans to revolt against HBO and The Last of Us over changes planned for Season 2.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Craig Mazin said of Season 2, “Will there be furor? Yeah, probably. I mean, there usually is, starting even with casting.”

This is nothing new. Mazin said people had a lot of negative things to say about Bella Ramsey being cast as Ellie in The Last of Us, as an example. “We knew they were the exact right person to cast and they had to go through quite a few months of people being awful on social media until they saw what we saw,” he said.

For Season 2 of The Last of Us, Mazin said there will be plot points that “shock people.” And similar to Season 1, there will be storylines in the show that were not in the game.

“I’m never gonna say there are things that are gonna happen in the show that happened in the game. You never know what we’re gonna do,” Mazin said. “But I will say that it is the adventure, the journey is the point. There are things that will shock people, things that were in the game, things that were not in the game, and that’s okay. As long as they’re purposeful, they’re not there to just simply shock. We are not interested in creating social media fear. We just want to tell the story the way we think it should be told.”

Regarding fan feedback in general, Mazin said he is only trying to do what is right for the story, even if people don’t like it.

“We don’t operate to either make people happy on social media or avoid making them upset. We just do what we think is right, and we hope that people come along for the ride and enjoy it,” he said.



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