This article contains spoilers of The last of us Season 2, episode 5, “Feel Her Love”.
The creators of The last of us The promised viewers would always feel the presence of Joel long after his death in season 2. “If we have done our job well, you will feel a lot Joel”, Showrunner Craig Mazin Said previously Weekly entertainment. Episode 5 becomes more literal with.
Pedro Pascal made its first appearance on return on The last of us Since The big event In the last moments of “feel his love”. Ellie (Bella Ramsey) has just killed his first member of Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) Crew on his mission to avenge Joel, and we get the beginnings of what looks like a flashback. Ellie wakes up in her room in Jackson, and Joel is there, standing in his door.
“Hey, kiddo,” he said in this too familiar tone.
In the 2020s The last of us part IIThe video game that season 2 is just starting to adapt, Joel appears regularly throughout the story. Flashback sequences involving him and Ellie are interspersed between the main chronology to show how their relationship has become so heavy. Likewise, there are scenes involving Joel The last of us Season 2 Trail that we have not yet seen playing on the series.
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All this indicates adaptations of specific flashback moments of the source material. A sequence involves a trip to Joel and Ellie in a museum to see the exhibitions of dinosaurs and space, which players know well. Another implies the death of Eugene, a character that we have only heard of so far, but will be played by The matrix And Sopranos actor Joe Pantoliano.
“Something I guess I have the impression of keeping the secret, it is how these things will play and where they will be placed, which, I think, is still a nice thing not to know for the people who watch the show,” said Pascal during an interview at the end of March.
By returning to production to film these scenes, having been a head The last of us Alongside Ramsey, Pascal was proud to see his young colleague intervene now as the main star of the season. “Since my first day of season 2, that’s what I have seen,” he said. “And then coming back, seeing how much everyone was linked in their experience as a distribution and as a team, I have the impression that it had so much to do with the kindness, patience and generosity of Bella.”
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Mazin and Co-showrunner Neil Druckmann discussed Joel’s arrival in this episode on the official The last of us podcast. “Episode 1, we see this tension between Joel and Ellie. You never see them happy like that. And yet they are there,” said Druckmann.
“So what happened?” Mazin continued. “What is the story that took place during these five years between” Swear to Me “and the death of Joel? I suppose that we will have to wait a week and discover. But hey, Pedro Pascal is the back, everyone, Woo!”
The last of us Season 2 publishes new episodes on Sunday at 9 p.m. He / PT on HBO and Max.
This article has been updated with the official quotes The last of us podcast.