Craig Mazin, the showrunner behind HBO’s acclaimed live-action TV adaptation of The Final of Us, has confirmed the group is working to a 4 season plan, insisting there’s “no means” the narrative could be wrapped up in three seasons.
This is not the primary time the magic quantity 4 has been floated in regard to The Final of Us’ TV adaptation, after all. Mazin began the chatter all the way in which again in 2023, suggesting the present may “find yourself being three or 5 [seasons]. However 4 looks like quantity. Some seasons, due to the story we’re telling, will want fewer episodes and a few will want extra.”
Then earlier this yr, HBO exec Francesca Orsi mirrored these feedback, saying it was “trying like 4 seasons” for the adaption, however confused HBO did not have “a whole or closing plan”. As an alternative, she appeared to defer to Mazin, including, “I would not need to verify that, however it’s trying like this season after which two extra seasons after this and we’re finished.”
And now Mazin has seemingly made that official in an interview with Collider. Discussing the massive Joel second that kicked off season two, Mazin defined, “It is so impactful. It is such a story nuclear bomb that it is exhausting to wander off from it. We won’t actually take a break and transfer off to the aspect and do a Invoice and Frank story. I am unsure that can essentially be true for Season 3. I believe we’ll have a bit of extra room there.”
“There is a respectable likelihood that Season 3 can be longer than Season 2,” he elaborated, “simply because the style of that narrative and the alternatives it affords us are a bit of completely different… however actually, there is not any solution to full this narrative in a 3rd season. Hopefully, we’ll earn our hold sufficient to come back again and end it in a fourth. That is the most certainly end result.”
As for season two, there’s only one episode to go following this week’s sixth instalment. Opinions on the second season have been a bit of extra blended in comparison with the extensively acclaimed unique, with Eurogamer’s The Final of Us superfan Victoria Kennedy lately pondering if Mazin and group may need bitten off greater than they will chew.
