HBO's The Last of Us returns for its highly anticipated second season this April, and now we've learned a key piece of information about it. Showrunner Craig Mazin said in an interview that Season 2 will not follow the timeline of the game exactly. It will depart from the game's timeline, but Mazin didn't say how--only that the changes from the game were made with care and designed to tell the best story for TV."We certainly are going to mess around with time the way it was in the source material... we messed around in ways that we felt were appropriate for the show," Mazin told Entertainment Weekly. "When I say 'messed around,' I mean scientifically determined in a narrative way what we thought would be most impactful." The Last of Us: Part II the game told its story through a non-linear setup as well, as players bounced between playing as Ellie and Abby. The other showrunner, Neil Druckmann, said revealing the story structure for The Last of Us Season 2 would be a spoiler, but he did confirm the team "tried different things" before settling on what will show up on screen.Continue Reading at GameSpot