When all is alleged and completed, there’s yet another unlucky actuality to contemplate in the case of guessing on the shelf life for “The Final of Us”: cash. HBO’s dad or mum firm, Warner Media, infamously merged with Discovery, Inc final 12 months in a consolidation of media energy that has already had an industry-wide impression. As of October, the corporate had a plan to chop prices in TV and movie of as much as $2 billion, and we have already seen that plan play out with fairly ruthless strikes together with an ongoing overhaul of the DC universe, the gutting of the corporate’s animation part, and the unceremonious removing of titles that are not accessible on house media from the HBO Max catalog.
Some big-name initiatives have been caught within the crossfire throughout this painful transition interval, with “Westworld” and “Batgirl” canceled in 2022, together with exhibits just like the already-renewed “Minx” and almost each scripted collection on TBS and TNT. All of that is to say that even a collection that looks like as positive a guess as “The Final of Us” does not have a assured future within the money-driven and presently rocky streaming panorama. However the collection clearly has a significant fanbase, and the expertise behind it to warrant one other season. Druckmann and collection co-creator Craig Mazin appear to be placing an unlimited quantity of thought into making this adaptation depend, so hopefully, the collection lasts precisely so long as it must as a way to inform the perfect story it may possibly.
New episodes of “The Final of Us” air on HBO and HBO Max on Sundays.