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 manner” 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, after all. Mazin began the chatter all the best way again in 2023, suggesting the present might “find yourself being three or 5 [seasons]. However 4 looks as if an excellent quantity. Some seasons, due to the story we’re telling, will want fewer episodes and a few will want extra.”
Then earlier this 12 months, HBO exec Francesca Orsi mirrored these feedback, saying it was “trying like 4 seasons” for the adaption, however harassed HBO did not have “a whole or remaining plan”. As an alternative, she appeared to defer to Mazin, including, “I would not wish to verify that, but it surely’s trying like this season after which two extra seasons after this and we’re executed.”
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 undecided that can essentially be true for Season 3. I feel we’ll have a little bit extra room there.”
“There is a respectable likelihood that Season 3 shall be longer than Season 2,” he elaborated, “simply because the style of that narrative and the alternatives it affords us are a little bit completely different… however definitely, there isn’t any 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 almost 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 little bit extra combined in comparison with the broadly acclaimed unique, with Eurogamer’s The Final of Us superfan Victoria Kennedy not too long ago pondering if Mazin and group might need bitten off greater than they will chew.
