Kaitlyn Dever Is Ready for the Abby-Centric ‘Last of Us’ Season 3

When season three of The Last of Us comes to HBO sometime in 2027, it’s going to be all about Abby. Season two saw one star, Joel (Pedro Pascal), murdered, and our other hero, Ellie (Bella Ramsey), hunt down his killer. It then ended with that killer, Abby (Kaitlyn Dever), hunting and finding Ellie. But before we could see what transpired between the two, the show flashed back several days and ended on Abby.

It’s the same twist Last of Us creator Neil Druckmann brutalized fans with in The Last of Us Part II game. Now, season three of the show will focus on everything happening from a completely different point of view. “The fans are really going to like it, I think,” Dever said to Deadline. “The shifting perspective onto Abby, getting some more context onto her storyline and going back in time with this season. So, I’m very excited for the fans to see it.”

Dever told the trade that her work on the third season starts very soon. “I’m getting mentally and physically prepped right now. I go up in a couple days, actually, to start prep over there,” she said this week. “I’m so excited to kind of take on a much bigger role in the season.”

In the game, when Druckmann pulls out the rug from under you and makes you play as Abby, it’s borderline torturous. You are now inhabiting the person the story has taught you to hate. But, over the course of the story, our sympathies and beliefs change, which supercharges that final showdown the second season teased.

But will a potential two-year break between seasons carry that kind of impact? And how will the show fare now that Druckmann, who created the game and helped bring the show to life, is stepping away to focus on Naughty Dog video games such as the sci-fi game Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet? We don’t know. We do know that cameras start rolling soon, though, and Dever will be the one in front of them most of the time.

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