Another week, another spectacular and heartbreaking episode Last of UsBut amidst the horrors of tiny clickers, massive bloaters, and deeply disturbing sequences with Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Sam (Kevon Woodard), what are our favorite stone-faced smugglers? What was going on in Joel’s (Pedro Pascal) head when he looked down at Ellie’s “I’m sorry” note on Sam’s grave?
“This is where Joel is starting to figure out what’s going on inside him,” says co-creator Craig Mazin in the HBO Max “Inside the Episode” video above. It’s been 20 years since there were no people like Sam in his life, and if he lost them he would be doomed – and he’s not quite sure how it happened, but it’s happening now in Erie. It’s starting
“When he sees what’s going on here, all he can think is that it’s going to be her and me. And that scares him.”
