The Last of Us (2023)

Every path has a price.

Twenty years after modern civilization has been destroyed, Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the United States and depend on each other for survival.

Created by: Neil Druckmann, Craig Mazin

Music by: Gustavo Santaolalla, David Fleming

Starring: Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna, Isabela Merced, Young Mazino

Genre: Drama

Released: 2023-01-15

Seasons: 2

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The Last of Us (2023): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• The first two episodes averaged 21.3 million viewers by January 31, the first five almost 30 million by March 6, and the first six 30.4 million by March 12, the highest figure for an HBO series since Game of Thrones's eighth season, surpassing House of the Dragon's ten-episode average.
• In the second season, based on the first half of 2020's The Last of Us Part II, they have settled in Jackson, Wyoming, with Joel's brother Tommy (Gabriel Luna) and Ellie's friends Dina (Isabela Merced) and Jesse (Young Mazino).
• The second season premiered on April 13, 2025, and averaged almost 37 million viewers within two months.
• Art director Don Macaulay replaced Paino for the second season.
• A film adaptation of Naughty Dog's video game The Last of Us (2013) was announced in 2014, to be written by its creative director and writer Neil Druckmann; it entered development hell by 2016 and the rights had relinquished by 2019, when Druckmann met Craig Mazin.
• By May, the season averaged almost 37 million global viewers per episode, larger than the first season's 32 million within 90 days.
• The premiere episode had 4.7 million viewers in the United States on its first night of availability, including linear viewers and streams on HBO Max, making it the second-largest debut for HBO since 2010, behind House of the Dragon.
• Across linear channels and HBO Max, the series premiere was watched by almost 40 million viewers within two months; the series averaged almost 32 million viewers per episode by May, and it became HBO's most watched debut season.
• HBO announced the series was in planning stages in March 2020, written by Mazin and Druckmann, also serving as executive producers with Carolyn Strauss and Evan Wells.
• HBO greenlit the series in November, adding executive producers Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan and production company Word Games, followed by production company the Mighty Mint in January 2021 and executive producer Rose Lam in February.
• The total viewing figure increased to almost 40 million within two months.
• The first season was filmed in Alberta from July 2021 to June 2022, while the second was filmed in British Columbia from February to August 2024; the third is filming in British Columbia from March 2026 to February 2027.
• The first season premiered in the United States on January 15, 2023.
• HBO shared the first image of Pascal and Ramsey in costume in September 2021, followed by the first footage in a HBO Max trailer during the premiere of House of the Dragon in August 2022.
• The Last of Us is HBO's first original content to have an American Sign Language version, performed by Daniel Durant and directed by Leila Hanaumi; the first season was released on Max on March 31, 2025, and the second season was released alongside each new episode, which premiered on April 13.

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