Oh, they’re just kinda spoiling it right away, huh?
The very first scene in the trailer shows Kaitlyn Dever as Abby. To anyone who hasn’t played the games and doesn’t know who Abby is, she’s the co-protagonist of The Last of Us Part II, though developer Naughty Dog kept her mostly a secret until the game launched in 2020. We see Abby walking down a dark hallway with a loaded pistol in hand. We get a brief glimpse of her Firefly tags hanging around her neck as a siren blares through the halls.
If you did play The Last of Us Part II, you know this is Abby looking for her father in the aftermath of Joel’s escape, in the same hospital where Joel went on a killing spree at the end of season one. HBO’s marketing doesn’t seem to be playing coy with Abby’s Firefly ties like Naughty Dog did in The Last of Us Part II, so we’ll see if it actually tries to maintain the game’s twists and turns.
