HBO launched a one-minute teaser of the hotly anticipated second season of The Final of Us—primarily based on Naughty Canine’s massively in style online game franchise—throughout CES in January. We now have a full trailer, unveiled at SXSW after the footage leaked over the weekend, chock-full of Easter eggs for gaming followers of The Final of Us Half II.

(Spoilers for S1 beneath.)

The series takes place within the 20-year aftermath of a lethal outbreak of mutant fungus (Cordyceps) that turns people into monstrous zombie-like creatures (the Contaminated, or Clickers). The world has turn out to be a sequence of separate totalitarian quarantine zones and unbiased settlements, with a thriving black market and a insurgent militia referred to as the Fireflies making life sophisticated for the survivors. Joel (Pedro Pascal) is a hardened smuggler tasked with escorting the teenage Ellie (Bella Ramsay) throughout the devastated US, battling hostile forces and hordes of zombies, to a Fireflies unit exterior the quarantine zone. Ellie is particular: She is resistant to the lethal fungus, and the hope is that her immunity holds the important thing to beating the illness.

S2 is ready 5 years after the occasions of the primary season and finds the bond starting to fray between plucky survivors Joel and Ellie. That is the inevitable end result of S1’s stunning finale, once they lastly arrived at their vacation spot, solely to find the key to her immunity to the Cordyceps fungus meant Ellie must die to discover a treatment. Ellie was prepared to sacrifice herself, however as soon as she was beneath anesthesia, Joel went berserk and killed all of the hospital workers to avoid wasting her life—and lied to Ellie about it, claiming the workers have been killed by raiders.