The episode of television as "long, long time" appears once in a blue moon, and the creators of HBO's "Last of Us" know that. At a press conference attending /film before the second season of the show, the series co-creator Craig Mazin noted that he and the co-creator of the franchise Neil Drakmann explicitly discussed their plans no deliver a repetition of the lateral character-covers of Season 1. Instead, they teased an episode that Mazz called "beautiful" and "different" while still distinguishing her from Bill (Nick Bidder) and Frank (Murray Bartlett).

"One thing we and I talked about was to make sure we not only said," Oh, that episode of Bill and Frank, people really want it, "Mazin recalls. "Let's make a very special episode of the" Last of Us "season 2." In a classic TV shingle, many special episodes are often those related to social themes or preaching important topics, but it is clear that Mazin means that the couple did not want to force the creation of a characteristic one-time in the style of self-sustainable, however, however, the third third episodes.

Mazin, who besides co-creating and producing was a lending writer for most of the season 1 "The Last of Us" and then continued to set aside a certain episode of Season 2 without giving any details on the spoiler. "Wille I say there is a wonderful episode this season, directed by the Nile, which is different," Mazin taxes. "It wasn't Frank, but it is, in its own way, its own job, because it should have been. Just waiting." A year ago, Drakman was confirmed As a director of Season 2, and when season 1 approached, he told /film and others present at a press conference that the sequel season will be at some points "different radically" from the game he is.

As season 1 has been shown, different is not always a bad thing when it comes to adaptations. ELOEL's Pedro Pascal version is softer and nicer From the version he first introduced in the award -winning series of naughty dogs 12 years ago, and The image of Melanie Lysini was not at all in the game. Plus, "long, long time" is some of the best evidence in the recent memory that expansion can be as important as the accuracy when it comes to adjusting from one medium to another. If not for a masterpiece outside the left field of the last season of "subsequent", disarmed gentle and intimate story would be the best episode of the year It was announced - or maybe even a decade to date. It is good that Drukman and Mazin simply do not try to replicate recognition and pain in "long, long time". Sometimes, the best way to follow exciting success is to do something completely different.

We know the "last of us" can make a one -time episode, but what should we expect to include a drakman class? Video game players are likely to think a day ago at the Wyoming Museum of Science and History, the one that is crucial to both ELOEL and Eli and the heart of the plot of the sequel game. Interestingly, however, Mazin and Drakman openly called for the scenes of the Museum of the game elsewhere at a press conference (and the museum scene can be seen in promotional material for season 2), so as possible the "different" episode they plan to deliver is something else.

Of course there are other characters in "The Last of Us Part II" who deserve more time on the screen in this series of version of the story. Caitlin Dever's Abi is the second main character this time around, but she is not familiar with viewers who did not play the games, so the scripts will have to do a lot of work to place their place and perspective in the post-apocalyptic landscape. Lev, Trans man who endures a a lot In the game, it also deserves extra care and attention. Plus, the sequel has a deep LOVEUBAL STORY of research, an enigmatic cult and more than a few dark nights of the soul for ELOEL, Eli (White Ramsey) and all other Cordyceps survivors. There is also a chance that the episode will focus on Eugene, as the character was seen only in the photo in the game, but will be played in the show by Emi-Dobusnik Oeo Pantoliano. You can't put the actors "sopranos" and "tied" in the show, without giving him something mainly for work, right?

We'll find out when the "last of us" returns to HBO on April 13, 2025.