This article contains spoilers For the premiere of the "last of us" season 2.

"The Last of Us" has an interesting approach when it comes to video game adaptations. For the most part, The show plays as a remake with video game footage of the same name Directed by Crus Straley and Neil Drakman and developed by the Naughty Dog studio. Apart from the series makes something unexpected so often, from devoting to episode to storytelling of a small character whose shade that most gamers miss, or completely original prologues that show how the fungal infection of cordiceps abroad.

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When it comes to meta references to the Games, the "Last of Us" finds a good balance between Vinks in front of the audience and just wanting respect for the people who helped make the game. Take Ashley Nsonson's casting as Eli's mother, The wonderful arrival that works at many levels for portraying Nsonson on Eli in the video games-while ELOEL's original actor, Troy Baker, threw himself as a right-wing Cannibal killer. Eli's metatextular, original actor who gave birth to Eli is a phenomenal choice, and if you haven't played the games, the show does not attract the attention of the casting choice.

In the premiere of Season 2, the ways continue to blink-and miss it-that, which even gamers may not notice, but is another metatextual respect for the people who made "the last of us" such a special series of video games. No, it is not Neil Drakman or Laura Bailey, but the man responsible for the phenomenal sound of both matches and also the TV adaptation - composer Gustavo Santalala.

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Gustavo Santalala was already a musical legend in his right before he became part of "the last of us". The Argentine musician was part of the early wave of the Spanish rock in Argentina as part of the group Arko Iris in the late 1960s. Then, in the 1980s, Santalala became integral in the rise of "Rock En Español" working as a producer for some of the greatest artists in the Spanish rock genre such as coffee, Los Prussieros, Molotov, Juanes and many others. As a composer, Santaolala has compiled fantastic results for Ammores Peros, Motorcycle Diaries, "Brokeback Mountain" and "The Book of Life" in addition to "the last of us".

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Santalala is responsible for Giving "the last of us" is emotionally influential and special sound guitar-heavy soundSo it makes sense that he would appear in the premiere of season 2 plays guitar.

In the premiere, Eli (White Ramsey) and Dina (Isabella Merced) go to the New Year's Eve party in Jexon, the brother of the ELOEL (Pedro Pascal) Tommy (Gabriel Luna) helped. We see a band playing the party and a famous man with long gray hair destroys the classic guitar. It is Gustavo Santalala himself as a guitarist, paying tribute to his own role in making the "last of us" games.