While the official synopsis for The Last of Us Season 3 has yet to be released, Mazin shared what fans can expect while discussing the Season 2 finale, which featured Abby’s point of view when she woke up at the W.L.F.’s Seattle headquarters three days earlier.
“There is another side to this story that we have yet to really delve into,” Mazin said of Abby’s story during a press conference after the season finale. “There’s no question that Abby is the hero of her story. Kaitlyn Dever is the hero of a story, always. If you have a Kaitlyn Dever, you use a Kaitlyn Dever. So I think where we go next, all I can say is it will always be centering somebody, whether it’s Ellie and Dina, or whether it’s Abby and Abby’s relationship with Owen or new relationships.”
The co-creator added, “If you played the game, you probably know what I’m talking about. But if you want to boil it down, everything is under the cloud or sunlight of Joel, what Joel did to Abby, and what Joel did for Ellie. That will never change.”
Per Mazin, Dina and Ellie’s relationship will be “the central relationship of this season.”
Druckmann also highlighted Abby’s importance to the next arc of the series while also teasing fans about the “epic nature to it of what’s about to happen.”