‘The Last of Us’ Timeline: What Happened When in the TV Show?

The journey of Joel and Ellie continues Sunday evening with the premiere of “The Last of Us” Season 2 on HBO and Max.

The second season of the video game adaptation takes place five years after the events of the Season 1 finale. Audiences will remember we last saw Joel make the difficult decision to stop the Fireflies from performing surgery on Ellie, preventing the group from using her immunity to make a vaccine in the hopes of saving humanity from the Cordyceps virus that has transformed the world into a zombie-filled wasteland.