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The future looks bleak…at least on HBO.

The network released a trailer for the upcoming series The Last of Us, based on the video game from developer Naughty Dog, set in a near-future version of the US after the country’s population has been devastated by a fungal infection that has created aggressive, zombie-like creatures.

The show stars The Mandalorian‘s Pedro Pascal as Joel, one of the survivors, who is hired to smuggle a teenage girl name Ellie, played by Bella Ramsey (Game of Thrones) out of a quarantine zone. The seemingly small job becomes a brutal journey fraught with many perils, and the two have to rely on each other to fight the terrifying things known as “The Clickers” and to make it through alive.

The trailer is one apocalyptic scene after another, one that will be familiar to those playing the game, and is set to Hank Williams’ “Alone and Forsaken.” We also see Melanie Lynskey (Yellowjackets), who joins the show playing a character named Kathleen, a “ruthless leader of a revolutionary movement in Kansas City,” according to HBO.

Pedro Pascal in The Last of Us. Image courtesy Warner Bros Discovery.

The show comes from Craig Mazin (Chernobyl), and also stars Gabriel Luna, Merle Dandridge, Anna Torv, Nick Offerman, Lamar Johnson, Troy Baker, Keivonn Woodard, Graham Greene and Nico Parker, among others. Johnson and Baker voiced the characters of Joel and Ellie in the video game, but will play other characters on the show

The Last of Us will premiere on the network in 2023.