HBO Max Debuts First Footage of ‘The Last of Us’, ‘Succession’ Season 4, ‘The White Lotus’ Season 2, and More
Right before the world premiere of House of the Dragon, HBO Max released a video looking ahead at what’s to come in the next few months for the streamer… And it is a lot.
Culminating with the first-ever footage of The Last of Us, the platform released a two-minute video featuring all-new footage from Succession season 4, The White Lotus season 2, Winning Time season 2, Hacks season 3, His Dark Materials season 3, The Gilded Age season 2, and the highly anticipated Love & Death, David E. Kelly’s new series starring Jesse Plemons and Elizabeth Olsen. Check it out below:
Overall, the promo confirms that the next series will be coming later this year to HBO and HBO Max:
- The White Lotus season 2. Variety confirmed earlier this month that it will be dropping in October, with Jennifer Coolidge being the only returning cast member from the first season. The plot will be leaving Hawaii and traveling all the way to Sicily for the next installment in Mike White’s crazy social satire.
- The Idol. This is a music industry drama set in Los Angeles, co-created by Sam Levinson, Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, and Reza Fahim, and stars Lily-Rose Depp and Tesfaye. A new teaser was released over the weekend.
- His Dark Materials season 3. This will be the final season of the show, and will adapt the third book in the trilogy of the same name by Philip Pullman. Dafne Keen and James McAvoy are returning, among other series regulars.
- Los Espookys season 2. This is a Spanish-language series that premiered its first season in 2019, and that “follows a group of friends who turn their love for horror into a peculiar business, providing horror to those who need it, in a dreamy Latin American country where the strange and eerie are just part of daily life.” Season 2 dropped a teaser earlier in the summer, which you can check out here.
- Avenue 5 season 2. The series, created by Veep‘s Armando Iannucci, is set forty years in the future when traveling the solar system is no longer the stuff of sci-fi fantasy, but a booming, multibillion-dollar business.
They have also confirmed that the following series are coming in 2023 to HBO and HBO Max:
- Somebody, Somewhere season 2. Following the success of the first season released earlier this year, HBO will debut a second season early 2023.. The series follows Sam, “a true Kansan on the surface, but, beneath it all, struggling to fit the hometown mold. Grappling with loss and acceptance, singing is Sam’s saving grace and leads her on a journey to discover herself and a community of outsiders who don’t fit in but don’t give up, showing that finding your people, and finding your voice, is possible.”
- The White House Plumbers. Starring Woody Harrelson, Justin Theroux, Domhnall Gleeson, Kiernan Shipka, and Lena Headey, the miniseries will adapt the 2007 novel Integrity by Egil Krogh and Matthew Krogh. It will be centered around the Watergate incident.
- Succession season 4. Probably the best show on television right now, the series follows a highly dysfunctional family that owns one of the biggest media conglomerates in the U.S. Filled with the best writing on television, and one of the most talented ensembles out there, the fourth season (currently filming) will be ten episodes long and will have to pay off one of the most iconic season finales of the last few years. The third season is up for a long list of Emmy nominations, and is the clear favorite to win Best Drama Series.
- Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty season 2. One of the best sports dramas in recent memory, the critically acclaimed Winning Time is coming back to further depict the ascendancy of the Lakers in the 1980s and how the philosophy of the owner behind it changed the NBA forever. From executive producer Adam McKay, the cast includes John C. Reilly, Quincy Isaiah, Jason Clarke, Adrien Brody, Gaby Hoffmann, Tracy Letts, and Jason Segel, among many others.
- Perry Mason season 2. The new series starring Matthew Rhys (The Americans) “follows the origins of American fiction’s most legendary criminal defense lawyer, Perry Mason. When the case of the decade breaks down his door, Mason’s relentless pursuit of the truth reveals a fractured city and just maybe, a pathway to redemption for himself.”
- Barry season 4. Bill Hader created, stars in, and directs this now-iconic dark comedy series about a “depressed, low-rent hitman from the Midwest.”
- The Righteous Gemstones season 3. Created, written, and executive produced by Danny McBryde, who also leads the cast, the series tells the story of a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed and charitable work.
- The Gilded Age season 2. The new series from Julian Fellowes, creator of Downtown Abbey, the series is set against the backdrop of the American Gilded Age, a period of immense economic change, great conflict between the old ways and brand new systems, and huge fortunes made and lost. It stars Coon, Morgan Spector, Denée Benton, Louisa Jacobson, Taissa Farmiga, Blake Ritson, and more.
- Love and Death. This new miniseries from the creator of Big Little Lies and The Undoing stars Elizabeth Olsen and Jesse Plemons. It is an adaptation of the 1984 novel Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs by Jim Atkinson, and follows Texas housewife Candy Montgomery, who murdered her friend from church, Betty Gore, with an axe in 1980. The story was also depicted in Hulu’s Candy, starring Jessica Biel. It was originally aiming for a fall 2022 release on HBO Max, but they might have decided to push it back to widen the gap between them and Candy.
- And Just Like That season 2. The new chapter in Sex and the City follows Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte as they navigate the journey from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their 30s to the even more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s. It was recently reported that John Corbett will be appearing in the second season. Season 1 premiered on HBO Max in late 2021.
- Tokyo Vice season 2. Executive produced by Michael Mann, who also created the pilot, the series stars Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe, and is loosely inspired by American journalist Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction, first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat, the crime drama series, filmed on location in Tokyo, captures Adelstein’s (played by Ansel Elgort) daily descent into the neon-soaked underbelly of Tokyo in the late 90s, where nothing and no one is truly what or who they seem. Season one aired on HBO Max earlier this year.
- Hacks season 3. The Emmy-winning series starring Jean Smart, and with recurring guest stars Laurie Metcalf, and Ming-Na Wen, explores a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance (Smart), a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old, played by Hannah Einbinder.
- Julia season 2. The show depicts Julia Child’s extraordinary life and her long-running television series, The French Chef, which pioneered the modern cooking show. The cast includes Sarah Lancashire as Julia, David Hyde Pierce, Bebe Neuwirth, Brittany Bradford, Fran Kranz and Fiona Glascott, with Isabella Rossellini as a guest star.
- Minx season 2. Created by Ellen Rapoport, it is set in 1970s Los Angeles and centers around Joyce (Ophelia Lovibond), an earnest young feminist who joins forces with a low-rent publisher (Jake Johnson) to create the first erotic magazine for women.
- Our Flag Means Death season 2. This highly successful pirate comedy was created by David Jenkins and is executive produced by Taika Waititi, who also plays Blackbeard in the show. Season one was (very) loosely based on the true adventures of 18th-century would-be pirate Stede Bonnet, played by Rhys Darby. After trading in the seemingly charmed life of a gentleman for one of a swashbuckling buccaneer, Stede became captain of the pirate ship Revenge. Struggling to earn the respect of his potentially mutinous crew, Stede’s fortunes changed after a fateful run-in with the infamous Captain Blackbeard.
- Warrior season 3. Created by Jonathan Tropper and executive produced by Justin Lin, it is a gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the late 19th century, and based on the writings of martial arts legend Bruce Lee.
- The Last of Us. Probably the most anticipated HBO series of next year, this is the live-action adaptation of one of the most successful video games of the past decade. Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) serve as co-creators, executive producers, writers, and directors, and the cast includes Bella Ramsey, Pedro Pascal, Gabriel Luna, Merle Dandridge, Nico Parker, Murray Bartlett, Nick Offerman, Jeffrey Pierce, and Anna Torv. The story takes place twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.
Also coming down the pipe are new seasons of Titans, Gossip Girl, The Sex Lives of College Girls, Rap Sh!t, Pennyworth, and Doom Patrol.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
