Craig Mazin, the showrunner behind HBO’s acclaimed live-action TV adaptation of The Final of Us, has confirmed the crew is working to a 4 season plan, insisting there’s “no approach” the narrative may 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, in fact. Mazin began the chatter all the best way again in 2023, suggesting the present may “find yourself being three or 5 [seasons]. However 4 looks as if a great 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 “wanting like 4 seasons” for the adaption, however burdened HBO did not have “a whole or closing plan”. As an alternative, she appeared to defer to Mazin, including, “I would not need to affirm that, but it surely’s wanting like this season after which two extra seasons after this and we’re performed.”
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 onerous to get lost 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 may essentially be true for Season 3. I feel we’ll have slightly extra room there.”
“There is a respectable likelihood that Season 3 might be longer than Season 2,” he elaborated, “simply because the way of that narrative and the alternatives it affords us are slightly completely different… however actually, there is no method to full this narrative in a 3rd season. Hopefully, we’ll earn our preserve sufficient to return again and end it in a fourth. That is the more than likely final 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 slightly extra blended in comparison with the broadly acclaimed unique, with Eurogamer’s The Final of Us superfan Victoria Kennedy just lately pondering if Mazin and crew might need bitten off greater than they’ll chew.
