Apologies to anybody who put cash on the zombies successful the Tremendous Bowl: HBO has formally moved the premiere date for the fifth episode of The Final of Us. Episode 5 shall be out there early on HBO Max and HBO On Demand, beginning Feb. 10 at 9 p.m. EST/6 p.m. PST, as a substitute of splitting the Sunday evening slot with the Tremendous Bowl.
For many who nonetheless want to watch The Final of Us on HBO’s linear premiere, the brand new episode will nonetheless air on Feb. 12 at 9 p.m. EST. However do you have to select to do this, you run the chance of lacking the large sport (although it’ll doubtless air post-Rihanna halftime present, so at the least the most important a part of the evening shall be over).
It’s additionally doable you’ll have the subsequent chapter of Joel and Ellie’s travels by way of Kansas Metropolis spoiled for you, since The Final of Us has been pulling file rankings for HBO throughout its first few episodes. The fourth episode additionally ended on a cliffhanger, with Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) being held at gunpoint.
HBO programming has been defining Sunday nights for a couple of many years at this level. All the pieces from The Sopranos to Intercourse and the Metropolis. However that schedule has left The Final of Us with a reasonably unenviable subsequent few weeks, with a season masking the Sundays of the Oscars, Grammys, and Tremendous Bowl. For now, at the least, HBO notes in its press launch that new episodes of the collection will proceed to air recurrently on Sundays.
The Final of Us airs recurrently on Sundays at 9 p.m. EST. Episode 5 shall be out there on HBO Max and HBO On Demand beginning Feb. 10 at 9 p.m. EST.
