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The Last of Us: Season 1 Episode 6 Review: Joel’s Uneasy Reunion
She even made an appearance in arguably the most popular zombie apocalypse franchise in AMC's The Walking Dead, but apparently, the prospect of playing an established video game character in Maria for the HBO series adaptation of The Last of Us was intimidating Maria is the wife of Tommy Miller (Gabriel Luna), who finally meets[...]
The Last of Us: Season 1 Episode 6 Review: Joel’s Uneasy Reunion
As we're past the halfway point of season one in HBO's The Last of Us with three episodes left, we reach a watershed moment in the Naughty Dog PlayStation game that involves Joel (Pedro Pascal), his family, and traveling companion Ellie (Bella Ramsey) when they reach Jackson, Wyoming, their second of three stops "Kin" was[...]
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Of course John Oliver was going to go after FOX "News" during the opening to the 10th season of HBO's Emmy Award-winning Last Week Tonight Especially when excerpts from sealed court filings by Dominion Voting Systems showed that (shocker!) a number of familiar FOX faces didn't believe the stuff they were spreading across the airwaves,[...]
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For Neil Druckmann & Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us, it's now six episodes down and three to go as the hit HBO series enters its final run of episodes for the season After an emotionally impactful reunion with Tommy (Gabriel Luna) and a change of heart regarding[...]
The Last of Us: Season 1 Episode 6 Review: Joel’s Uneasy Reunion
The latest episode of HBO's The Last of Us deals with Joel's (Pedro Pascal) watershed moment with Ellie a little differently than in the game In "Kin," Joel finally reunites with his brother Tommy (Gabriel Luna), while introducing his new traveling companion, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) During the events of the game, players only encounter Tommy,[...]
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But part of the reason why we are where we are is that Mazin & Druckmann lied – and we should be thanking them for it. Image: HBO Just so there's no confusion, I'm not one who automatically assigns morality to lying… meaning, I don't see the act of lying as automatically a bad thing[...]
true detective
In the upcoming season of HBO's crime anthology series, Detectives Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) & Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) look to solve the case of six men operating the Tsalal Arctic Research Station who vanished without a trace when the long winter night fell in Ennis, Alaska In doing so, the pair will have to[...]
The Last of Us: Season 1 Episode 4 Review: Joel-Ellie Quality Time
Jeffrey Pierce is one of a few actors (along with Troy Baker, Ashley Johnson, and Merle Dandridge) who was there from the very beginning when Naughty Dog released the 2013 megahit The Last of Us for the Sony PlayStation 3, its 2020 sequel Part II for PlayStation 4, and have a live-action adaptation presence on[...]
The Last of Us: Season 01 Episode 05 Review: A Rebel Without A Cause
Even with a number of important chapters remaining in the first season, fans of both the video game & hit HBO series are already getting their dumpster fires of random speculation raging over the second season of Neil Druckmann & Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us Unfortunately, not[...]
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While the bulk of his work is grounded with memorable films like 2013's Dallas Buyers Club and 2014's Kill the Messenger and TV series like AppleTV+'s The Morning Show and HBO's Big Little Lies, he's probably encountered one his most ambitious in HBO's The Last of Us, the TV adaptation of the Sony & Naughty[...]
The Last of Us: Lynskey, Johnson & Woodard on Horde Overrun Scene
HBO's The Last of Us wrapped one of the game's most important arcs in the episode "Endure and Survive," which saw a Kansas City suburb overrun by infested while introducing one of the franchise's most menacing threats in the bloater, an unstoppable hulking beast The scene in question involves Joel (Pedro Pascal), Ellie (Bella Ramsey),[...]
The Last of Us: Season 01 Episode 05 Review: A Rebel Without A Cause
It's something creators Craig Mazin and Naughty Dog visionary Neil Druckmann try to do in the HBO TV series adaptation expanding the duo's world around as they try to survive the Cordyceps pandemic Among those they meet are Henry and Sam, voiced respectively in the game by Brandon Scott and Nadji Jeter and played by[...]
The Last of Us: Ian Alexander on Interest in Reprising Lev For Series
While fans of The Last of Us are excited to see HBO announce their TV adaptation has been renewed for season two, creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann said the events of 2020's Naughty Dog PlayStation sequel in Part Two are too big to be contained within the second season One such actor who wouldn't[...]
The Last of Us: Melanie Lynskey on Mazin's Pitch for Kathleen & More
Where is Linda Hamilton when you need her?" Lynskey screenshot the attempt at body shaming before sending in her reply explaining the photo's context and her role as Kathleen on the HBO series "Firstly- this is a photo from my cover shoot for InStyle magazine, not a still from HBO's The Last Of Us And[...]
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Because S01E05 "Endure and Survive" dropped on Friday night… if you have HBO Max or HBO On-Demand Otherwise, the episode is set to hit screens on Sunday night, as usual So that means we're going to avoid spoilers of any kind regarding the crushing Henry (Lamar Johnson) & Sam (Keivonn Woodard)-focused chapter, but since we have[...]
The Last of Us: Season 01 Episode 05 Review: A Rebel Without A Cause
The latest arc on HBO's The Last of Us is that Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) run into a militarized Kansas City where local rebels overtook the government agency FEDRA's control and its leader Kathleen (Melanie Lynskey) is doing everything she can to overturn the entire city to find her alleged brother's murderer[...]
the nevers
Less than two weeks after fans learned that previously-on-HBO series The Nevers would be heading to FAST services Roku and Tubi, we're learning when the Joss Whedon-created series will be hitting Tubi With the info coming courtesy of exclusive reporting from TVLine, the schedule has the first rotation happening between Monday, February 13th, and Wednesday,[...]
The Last of Us: Season 1 Episode 4 Review: Joel-Ellie Quality Time
The problem sometimes with popular shows like HBO's The Last of Us is the kind of pettiness that emerges, especially from trolls In the case of Melanie Lynskey, who plays Kathleen, the leader of a rebel group in Kansas City that overthrew the local government organization in FEDRA, and a character original to the TV[...]
The Last of Us: Expanding Tommy, Yara, Lev's Stories as Spinoff Films
Since we're near the halfway point in the first season of the HBO series The Last of Us, creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann have done a splendid job adapting the source material from the Naughty Dog PlayStation games to the small screen There's so much world-building to go, and here are some of my[...]
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If you thought that HBO & HBO Max were going to let up off the dramatic gas pedal once the Pedro Pascal & Bella Ramsey-starring hit series The Last of Us wraps up its first-season run, the cable network and streaming service put that to rest with a look at what's to come next And[...]
The Last of Us: Melanie Lynskey on Mazin's Pitch for Kathleen & More
When The Last of Us creator Craig Mazin was looking for someone to play season one villain in rebel faction leader Kathleen in the HBO series, he thought who better than Emmy-nominated actress and star of Yellowjackets Melanie Lynskey, which airs on the premium cable network rival Showtime The actress opened up about how she[...]
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But before we get to that, a quick reminder for all of you Super Bowl fans out there that the fifth episode will be available on HBO Max and HBO On Demand beginning Friday, February 10th at 9 pm ET/6 pm PT (with the linear episode premiere still hitting HBO on Sunday, February 12th at[...]
The Last of Us Is "Y: The Last 28 Walking Dead Days Later" Excellence
If you have HBO Max or HBO On Demand, you'll be able to check out the newest episode beginning Friday, February 10th at 9 pm ET/6 pm PT (with the linear episode premiere still hitting HBO on Sunday, February 12th at 9 pm ET/PT) Following that, new episodes will continue to air Sundays at 9[...]
The Last of Us: Rare Chimes on Nick Offerman’s Banjo-Kazooie Obsession
To recap, he was a guest on the ABC late-night program following his critically-acclaimed performance in the third episode, "Long, Long Time," and host Jimmy Kimmel asked the actor if he played the original Naughty Dog PlayStation games prior to taking the role of survivalist Bill for the HBO series. Nick Offerman in "The Last of[...]
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To say that HBO's third episode of The Last of Us was a masterpiece would be an understatement It's thanks to the efforts of creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann; actors Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett, who played Bill and Frank, respectively; and director Peter Hoar, who's worked on critically-acclaimed LGBTQ series HBO Max's It's a[...]
The Last of Us S01 E03 Review: A Heart-Warming Soulful Dramatic Change
On the third episode of HBO's The Last of Us "Long, Long Time," his star shined brightest alongside Murray Bartlett as Frank and Bill as survivors who find each other The actor and comedian appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to break down how Megan Mullally helped land him the role, the reactions, and if he's[...]
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With The Last of Us franchise's unique approach to the zombie apocalypse genre and the emergence of the popular HBO series adaptation of the Naughty Dog PlayStation games, Stamets took the time on social media to stave off any concerns the fictional Cordyceps plague have on public perception of fungi. Image: HBO Max Screencap Paul Stamets Addresses[...]
House of the Dragon: HBO Offers Sneak Peak at Emma D’Arcy’s Rhaenyra
A little more than five months after the cabler gave the "Game of Thrones" prequel series a very early second season order, it looks like we might just have a filming/production update on the second season of HBO & showrunner Ryan Condal's House of the Dragon According to Production List (as you can see in[...]
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Now, after reading that description, it's pretty safe to say that this is going to be one very snowy & stormy season for HBO's crime thriller anthology series But just to give you a better sense of how Mother Nature has volunteered to work visual effects for the production, executive producer Mari-Jo Winkler has shared[...]
The Last of Us S01 E03 Review: A Heart-Warming Soulful Dramatic Change
Like Netflix's Stranger Things before it for Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill and Metallica's Master of Puppets, HBO's The Last of Us is helping audiences find along beloved hit this time in Linda Ronstadt's 1979 hit Long, Long Time, which was also the title of the series' third episode that explores the unexpected love[...]