The Last of Us Season 3 Predictions: There is a very specific kind of sadness attached to The Last of Us right now because the show is not over yet, and there is still a whole lot of Seattle left to emotionally destroy us. HBO has, however, started developing Baldur’s Gate, another major video game adaptation with Craig Mazin attached.
The question then naturally becomes, “What exactly is HBO planning for The Last of Us Season 3?” and we are left with no other option but to speculate about the future. So here are our The Last of Us Season 3 predictions.
The Last of Us Season 3 Predictions: First Things First: The Last of Us Is Not Over
The Last of Us Season 3 is expected to release in 2027. HBO renewed the series for a third season days before Season 2 premiered. Principal photography began in British Columbia in March 2026.
The safest bet for now is to remember that The Last of Us is continuing, but HBO is already preparing for the possibility that its next chapter could be its last, which makes Season 3 interesting.
The Last of Us Season 3 Might Belong To Abby
Season 2 ended by shifting the story towards Abby, and we can expect Season 3 to follow her perspective more closely. Kaitlyn Dever’s Abby is no longer simply the woman Ellie wants revenge on. The entire point is that the further you go into Abby’s life, the harder it becomes to keep her neatly filed under “villain”.
We are likely to spend considerably more time with Abby’s life inside the Washington Liberation Front, her relationship with Owen, Mel, Manny and Isaac and the events that eventually pull her towards the Seraphites.
The Seraphites In The Last Of Us Are Going To Steal The Season
We would not be surprised if the Seraphites in The Last of Us become central. The Seraphites were already one of the most visually and thematically memorable parts of The Last of Us. Now HBO can give them an even bigger presence.
The television series might have the room to explore the Seraphite community in greater depth, which can become Season 3’s biggest strength. Seraphites have a belief system, rituals, rules and a community that has survived by turning faith into structure.
Ellie Will Feel Like Hanging Over The Season
Since season 2 is expected to focus heavily on Abby, Ellie might have a smaller presence than she had in the first two seasons. This would not make her irrelevant, but she might become the emotional anchor of Season 3.
Every choice that Ellie made has consequences that continue to spread through the story, and knowing The Last of Us, the show might find a way to keep reminding us that Abby and Ellie are moving through the same tragedy from completely different sides.
Season 3 Might Be Bigger, But The Emotional Scenes Will Still Matter More
Season 3 is expected to be larger, which makes sense: the conflict is enormous, and there is plenty of material that would look spectacular on an HBO budget.
We only hope that the show does not fall into the very easy trap of thinking bigger automatically means “better” because the scenes people remember from The Last of Us are not necessarily the biggest explosions but rather two people sitting quietly when the world around them collapses, and that is where The Last of Us hurts the most.
So, action, terrifying Seraphite sequences, and the like are fine, but the five-minute conversation afterwards that emotionally destroys everyone is the need.
The Door Will Remain Open
HBO is already developing another major video-game adaptation with Craig Mazin attached, which does not mean Baldur’s Gate is literally replacing The Last of Us, but it does show that HBO is thinking beyond its current game-adaptation success.
This would mean that one prestige genre finishes for another enormous, expensive, complicated genre series to begin with. The difference is that The Last of Us has a natural stopping point and the story does not need to continue forever.
If Season 3 can give this broken little universe the ending the story deserves, perhaps that is enough.
What Comes After The Last of Us?
If The Last of Us ends, HBO is not just losing a show but potentially one of the biggest examples of a video-game adaptation actually becoming prestige television. The show has won multiple awards across its first two seasons, which is huge when you remember how many years people spent assuming video-game adaptations would not simply work.
HBO has Baldur’s Gate waiting in the wings with a different genre, world and different characters. Both are massive games, but that simply does not make Baldur’s Gate the next The Last of Us, and it does not have to be.
Everything in this article is strictly predictions for Season 3 and not confirmed information. This is what we predict; tell us yours!
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