This story contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 6 of HBO's "The Last of Us," now streaming on Max. “The Last of Us” production designer Don Macaulay vividly recalls watching an emotional Neil Druckmann,

Episode 6, the penultimate installment of Season 2, was made up almost entirely of flashbacks to those five intervening years, with the show revisiting Joel and Ellie nearly every

1.First, the opening flashback with a young Joel and his dad is new for the TV show and doesn't exist in The Last of Us Part II. Tony Dalton, who stars as Joel's dad, is set to have a role in Naughty Dog's upcoming game Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, which also stars Tati Gabrielle, who plays Nora.

Discussing the change in narrative with The Hollywood Reporter, The Last of Us co-creator Neil Druckmann said: "If we spaced out these scenes and planted them throughout the season, I believe they wouldn’t land as powerfully because they’re short moments and work better when they’re next to each other."

The latest episode of HBO's post-apocalyptic thriller drama deviated from the game’s narrative to tell a deeper story about the characters, including Gail and Eugene.

The special episode 6 of The Last of Us season 2 has premiered and it fixes one of the biggest problems of the game, find out more about Ellie and Joel's relationship here.

Sunday night’s episode of The Last of Us Season 2 hit pause on Ellie’s (Bella Ramsey) increasingly dangerous mission to find Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) to help explain how she really got to this point in the first place.

In the penultimate episode of the second season, which premiered Sunday night (May 18) on HBO Max, the story briefly visits the Wyoming Museum of Science and History.

The HBO adaptation's latest installment picks up with Joel and Ellie five years after the events of Season 1 and is based on 2020's "The Last of Us: Part II"