When The Last Of Us season two premieres next month, quite a lot will have happened since we last saw Joel and Ellie. Set four years after the divisive ending of the first season, season two will put our heroes in the unlikeliest of environments: one of security and even comfort after the end of the world. They live in a functioning small community. We see them sharing quieter moments with each other and new loved ones (and in the case of Ellie, seemingly new love interests).
But as the most recent trailer shows, those emotional highs will be counterbalanced with moments of despair we’ve come to expect from this dog-eat-dog post-apocalypse world. The trailer gives us a look at two new factions, both of which had major roles in the 2020 sequel video game that the second season is adapting. But who are they and where do they come from?
