If you have played the video games The Last of Us and The Last of Us 2, you know that at least one of your favorite characters is going to die. That's just a fact. And if you've been watching the show, you know Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann have said time and time again that they're going to follow the game. But none of that made Joel's death any easier last night. - YouTube www.youtube.com In the scene in question, Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) brutally kills Joel (Pedro Pascal) in retaliation for him murdering her father. We learn that her father was the surgeon from the end of season one who believed operating on Ellie (Bella Ramsey) – a procedure that would have killed her – could lead to a cure for the parasitic Cordyceps plague. Ellie, who views Joel as a father figure, is held captive and forced to witness his gruesome death, while her friend Dina (Isabela Merced) is sedated nearby.It's unapologetically hard to watch. Craig Mazin sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to talk about the scene in question and how they adapted it from the game. When it came to the brutality of the scene, Mazin said, "Well, that’s something that [director Mark Mylod] and I talked about. We had to do quite a bit of planning about how graphic we wanted things to be, because we have a lot of prosthetics [on Pascal’s face]. We felt that the point we needed to get across was...
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