The Last of Us HBO Series Season 3 Might be the Last - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 February 2026 / 4,236 Views
The Chairman and CEO of HBO and HBO Max Content Casey Bloys in an interview with Deadline stated the third season of The Last of Us HBO series might be the last one.
"It certainly seems that way, but on decisions like that, we will defer to the showrunners," said Bloys. "So you can ask them."
Showrunner Craig Mazin in May of last year told Collider "there’s no way to complete this narrative in a third season."
He added at the time, "I think there’s a decent chance that Season 3 will be longer than Season 2, just because the manner of that narrative and the opportunities it affords us are a little different."
The Last of Us first season covered the story from the first game, however, the second season only covered part of The Last of Us Part II.
Naughty Dog boss Neil Druckmann in July of last year revealed he he is stepping away from The Last of Us HBO TV show to put his complete focus on Naughty Dog and game development.
"I've made the difficult decision to step away from my creative involvement in The Last of Us on HBO." said Druckmann at the time. "With work completed on season 2 and before any meaningful work starts on season 3, now is the right time for me to transition my complete focus to Naughty Dog and its future projects, including writing and directing our exciting next game, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, along with my responsibilities as Studio Head and Head of Creative."
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To really honor the IP, HBO should re-do Season 1 twice.
Its ironic that the Abby actress (Kaitlyn Dever) would have made a great Ellie lol
Well it only has the later half of Part II to cover, and even if Part III does come back as a possibility on Naughty Dog schedule it would be a 2033 or so game... so yeah, that was 100% expected.
meh. I stopped watching after that episode in season 1.
Kills lead character in game, lose fans for the second game.
Kills lead character in the tv show, lose fans for the second season of the tv show.
Funny how that works and people expected different.
True... but for the show specifically It worse because no one likes Ellie
At least in the game people liked Ellie most of the time
But HBO has such a great track record of extending an adapted series beyond existing source material.
With good enough writing, I believe they could make anything work. But going by how they stretched out the first half of II for the second season, I don't have high expectations for them doing a better job with the second half (which I think is already the weaker part of the story).
Beat to release Season 3 when the 3rd game get released or time it closely.
Liked the first season. Have not watched the second one since I have not played the game yet.
Duh
(of Us)
With 2 more episodes in a 3rd season compared to the 2nd season i believe they can wrap up the whole story of Part ll.
Good, I guess. I only saw the first season. It was good, with some great elements sprinkled in, but I did feel that it went a bit to far off from the games beat. Still need to check out the second season.
pan's labyrinth was a fantastic movie!
Agreed, I loved it myself :D
