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Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal in “The Last of Us” HBO On the latest episode of HBO’s The Last of Us before next week’s season two finale, audiences received a special glimpse inside the evolution of the family-like relationship between Joel (played by Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (played by Bella Ramsey) in this post-apocalyptic world, where well-intentioned lies have come to the surface and emotional acts of forgiveness take form, making us all wonder what might have been. Based off of the Naughty Dog video game, The Last of Us was co-created by Neil Druckmann, which he then adapted for episodic storytelling on HBO. Sitting down with showrunner Druckmann, 46, I initially wondered what he hopes that The Last of Us viewers will take away from watching the new “The Price” episode and witnessing how the father-daughter dynamic between Joel and Ellie progressed over time. Druckmann said, “Understanding, more than anything, the complexity of their relationship – understanding how much they love each other, and that the episode is structured in such a way where you see them in this really great place, this really happy place, and then things start deteriorating. At first, it might appear it’s about superficial things, like – Oh, Ellie getting a tattoo, or Ellie wanting to wear short sleeves, or Ellie hooking up with someone, or smoking weed, or wanting to go on patrols – but they get over all those things. Joel accommodates every single one of those things, including Ellie wanting to move to her own place. He fixes the garage up for her. Each one of these is some expression of love and then it still falls apart. It falls apart because it’s weighed down by this lie – not only the lie, but the choice behind the lie of what…

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