'The Last of Us' Season 2 is arriving soon. Here's a Season 1 recap

After a two-year wait, everyone’s favourite fungal zombie apocalypse amusement is yet back: The 2nd play of “The Last of Us” premieres Sunday.

Created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, HBO’s acclaimed endurance play is acceptable successful a satellite that has been ravaged by the outbreak of a mysterious mutant cordyceps fungus that turns quality hosts into horrific, mindless monsters. An adaptation of the deed video crippled of the aforesaid name, the nine-episode first season followed gruff smuggler-turned-surrogate begetter fig Joel (Pedro Pascal) and his teen complaint Ellie (Bella Ramsey) connected a cross-country travel to assistance find a mode to prevention the world. Ellie’s immunity to the fungus perchance holds the cardinal to a cure.

Here’s everything you request to cognize astir Season 1 earlier diving into Season 2.

How did the apocalypse happen?

In the satellite of “The Last of Us,” a mysterious cordyceps outbreak successful 2003 devastates humanity. Those that are infected alteration into zombie-like hosts that beryllium for the sole intent of spreading the fungal corruption to others. The longer they are infected, the much monstrous their quality becomes.

Twenty years later, nine has collapsed and survivors successful America are near to unrecorded successful subject authorities tally quarantine zones controlled by FEDRA (the Federal Disaster Response Agency) oregon erstwhile QZs that were liberated from the oppressive agency. There are besides settlements that autarkic communities person established connected their ain — arsenic good arsenic survivors that take to enactment much isolated.

Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) successful the archetypal play of “The Last of Us,” wherever they marque a cross-country journey.

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Who are the cardinal players?

The archetypal play introduces audiences to Joel Miller, a contractor surviving with his teen girl Sarah. Sarah is killed by a worker during the chaos of the outbreak portion Joel was trying to get them to safety. He ne'er truly recovers from her loss.

By 2023, Joel has mislaid interaction with his brother, Tommy, and is simply a smuggler moving jobs retired of the Boston quarantine portion on with his spouse Tess. After a woody goes awry, Joel and Tess conscionable Ellie, a teen being held captive by a rebel militia radical called the Fireflies. The person Marlene asks Joel and Tess to smuggle Ellie retired of the metropolis successful speech for supplies.

Ellie, it turns out, is immune to the cordyceps corruption and Marlene has planned for her to beryllium transported to a radical of Fireflies retired westbound successful hopes of creating a cure. (Ellie’s immunity apt stems from her mother becoming infected conscionable earlier giving commencement to her.)

Were they successful?

Not quite! The handoff ne'er happens due to the fact that the Fireflies who were meant to escort Ellie crossed the state get infected earlier their rendezvous. Tess is besides a casualty. So Joel and Ellie acceptable disconnected to find the different Fireflies connected their own.

The 2 turn adjacent implicit their perilous travel arsenic Joel and Ellie brushwood plentifulness of monsters and monstrous people. But they besides transverse paths with Tommy, present joined and surviving successful the peaceful colony of Jackson, Wyo.

Joel and Ellie yet marque their mode to Salt Lake City, wherever the teen is taken to country to statesman the process of figuring retired a cure. But erstwhile Joel learns that the process volition termination her (the doctors request her brain), helium goes connected a deadly rampage to halt the Fireflies and escapes with Ellie. As they caput backmost to Jackson, Ellie asks Joel what happened and helium tells her that the militia radical had already unsuccessfully tried to make a cure with different immune radical and had fixed up.

Ellie (Bella Ramsey), left, and Dina (Isabela Merced), a caller quality introduced successful Season 2.

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What’s next? (No spoilers)

This play is acceptable to prime up a fewer years aft the events of Season 1. Ellie and Joel person been surviving arsenic productive members of the assemblage successful Jackson. Among the caller characters to beryllium introduced are Dina (Isabela Merced), Jesse (Young Mazino) and Abby (Kaitlyn Dever). You tin work a spoiler-light reappraisal here.

How astir immoderate spoilers?

Season 2 and beyond volition beryllium adapting “The Last of Us Part II.” Those acquainted with the events of the video crippled cognize to expect immoderate romance, angst, decease and a full batch of revenge. The crippled besides introduced antithetic factions of radical who unrecorded precise antithetic lives from those successful the assemblage astatine Jackson. There’s besides a spot much that could beryllium introduced astir the types and behaviour of the infected.