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As of now, four episodes of The Last of Us Season 2 are available to stream on Max. The fifth one will release on Sunday, May 11, 2025. The previous episode introduced the WLF leader, Isaac Dixon, revealed that Dina is pregnant with Jesse's child, and showed Dina and Ellie finally committing to each other.
The closing minutes of the fourth episode, "Day One", show Ellie and Dina witnessing bombings. The Last of Us Season 2, Episode 5 seems to continue where the previous one left off. Ellie and Dina are making their way through Seattle to the WLF hospital building. The preview for the fifth episode of The Last of Us Season 2 also teased something familiar to fans who played the games, spores.
When is The Last of Us Season 2 Episode releasing?
The Last of Us Season 2, Episode 5, as stated earlier, will be released publicly on May 11, 2025. However, this date applies to the USA, and the release date and time rely on your geographical location. Here is when you can catch the next episode of The Last of Us Season 2:
- Pacific Standard Time: 06:00 PM, May 11, 2025
- Eastern Standard Time: 09:00 PM, May 11, 2025
- Greenwich Mean Time+1: 02:00 AM, May 12, 2025
- Central European Time: 03:00 AM, May 12, 2025
- Indian Standard Time: 06:35 AM, May 12, 2025
- Australian Eastern Standard Time: 11:00 AM, May 12, 2025
How to catch The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 5?
Like every other episode of The Last of Us Season 1 and 2, the next one will air on HBO and stream on Max simultaneously at the time mentioned above. Thus, you can watch the fifth episode at your convenience if you missed it on HBO. Just make sure that you are subscribed to Max or any of the streaming platforms the series is available on.
What to expect from The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 5?
Based on the image above, it seems that Ellie might find Nora somewhere in the runtime of the episode, and the former will learn about Abby's motivations. This might set the stage for the sixth episode, which will be a flashback episode involving Ellie and Joel.
The preview also teases a major factor from the games, the presence of spores. For those who don't know, in the game, the Cordyceps virus infects people through spores in the air, but the show changed it to tendrils. The showrunners explained this change in a 2023 Variety interview.
Addressing the change, Neil Druckmann said:
"It started with Craig hating zombies — I’m kidding. But we had talked about how we’re in a genre that’s popular, and there are a lot of different versions of stories of an outbreak. We did our best to find what’s unique about our story and world."
"For our clickers, we lifted them from the game, and kept them as is. But for the more recently infected, we had a lot of conversations about what else can we do with the vector other than bites. We looked at concept art where there’s this implication of the fungus growing under the skin. What if that was the thing? It’s not so much about the bite, they just need these tendrils to go from one host to another and that’s how the infection spreads."
Following Druckmann, co-showrunner Craig Mazin said:
"If you listen carefully, the word “spores” is mentioned. I don’t necessarily know if we’re going to see any spores this time around, but to say that our world is devoid of them would not be accurate. We don’t quite know yet. That’s part of the fun of adaptation, leaving these blurry edges of the map for our characters to discover as the adventure continues."
Based on Mazin's comments, the mention of spores in the first season is paying off in the ongoing season. In March 2025, the cast and crew involved in HBO's The Last of Us appeared at SXSW. There, Druckmann told fans what they could expect from the upcoming season:
“There’s an escalation of numbers and types of infected. But also as you see in the trailer, an escalation of the vector of how this thing spreads. Season 1 we had this new thing that wasn’t in the game of like these tendrils that spread, and that was one form. And then this one shot you see in this trailer, there are things in the air.”
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