A shocking episode. Episode 2 of season 2 of The last of uswhich was broadcast this Sunday, April 20 on the Max platform, reserved for its viewers a particularly difficult scene: Joel’s brutal death (Pedro Pascal), murdered by D’Abby, who avenged his father, murdered by the smuggler in the first season.
A sequence that has not failed to make viewers react on social networks that had not played the original game. Pedro Pascal also expressed his emotion in the columns of the magazine Weekly entertainment. “I am in full denial,” he said in an article published on Monday, April 21.
“I realize that more and more, as I aged, how much I can happen in the denial once an important thing is over. I am always linked to this team (…) I try not to think about that because it saddens me,” added the actor, who also remembers the “sadness” of the actors in the set of this scene.
Golf club
On the impact of the scenario on the public, Pedro Pascal added: “I have already felt it. I have already turned to the other end of my book room because they had turned me. It can be very painful, but at the same time it is one of the greatest forces of the art of telling stories.”
In the series, Abby is looking for Joel to avenge his father’s death, the doctor who killed in the last episode of season 1 to save Ellie. When she finds him at the beginning of season 2, Abby hurts Joel in his leg before killing him with a golf club. The rest of the season, inspired by the game The last part of us part IIFollow Ellie’s revenge.
The Revenge Wheel
In an interview with VarietyThe creator of the series Craig Mazin explains how he decided to dedicate the second episode of season 2 to this “atrocious moment”: “It is dangerous to torment the public. This is not what we wanted to do,” he insisted before adding:
“The scene had to happen when it was the most natural for history, not only to bother people.”
“Season 2 is related to conflicts,” Gabriel Luna, aka Tommy, Joel’s brother. “At this time, worldwide, we face these conflicts. People are trapped in the revenge wheel. Can we break it? Will it break? And this is where we are.”
A season 3 announced
The last of usSeries on a post-apocalyptic company devastated by the mutation of a parasite fungus, expires to the discs, with an average of 32 million viewers per episode, all combined transmission platforms. She is inspired by a popular video game by The Naughty Dog Studio.
The second season, located five years after the first, saw the arrival of a new protagonist, Abby. This soldier, who unleashes his murderous violence, is embodied by Kaitlyn Dever, an actress who was initially expected to play Ellie when The last of us He had to adapt for the cinema in the mid -2010.
Season 2, composed of seven episodes, also presents new characters embodied by Catherine O’Hara (Beetlejuice), Jeffrey Wright (Casino Real) and Isabela Merced (Alien: Romulus). A suite is already planned: HBO renovated The series for a third season.
Source: BFM TV
