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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The mystery of Pedro Pascal's Emmy category solved as HBO's ‘The Last of Us' submissions are revealed
The Last of Us HBO has just revealed its Emmy submission categories for The Last of Us, fresh off of its second season finale. The big news: Pedro Pascal will once again compete for Lead Actor in a Drama Series. More from GoldDerby 'Hacks' renewed for Season 5 ahead of Season 4 finale Iliza Shlesinger's comedy evolution: 'You don't want to be 42 telling the same jokes you told at 22' 'The Last of Us' composers Gustavo Santaolalla and David Fleming on their unique collaboration Now, anyone familiar with the most recent season's second episode knows how destructive a golf club can be and that Pascal could have run for Supporting Actor. The decision seems to be weighing his presence in the back half of the season, including a powerhouse performance in the penultimate episode, "The Price." Also confirmed was the obvious placement of Bella Ramsey in Lead Actress, truer than ever this season. Isabela Merced (who plays Dina), Young Mazino (Jesse), and Gabriel Luna (Tommy) will compete in their respective supporting categories. With the guest actor and guest actress categories, The Last of Us could potentially claim both prizes — just like the show did in 2023 with Nick Offerman and Storm Reid, adding to the show's tally of eight awards in all. This year's lineup of potential nominees is stacked, featuring Kaitlyn Dever (submitted for her pivotal, bloody episode "Through the Valley'), Catherine O'Hara (for season premiere 'Future Days), Jeffrey Wright (for his monologue-heavy "Day One"), Tony Dalton (as Joel's dad in "The Price"), and Joe Pantoliano (as the tragic Eugene, also in "The Price"). HBO submitted cocreators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann for writing separate episodes, with the former on "Through the Valley" and the latter on "The Price." Submissions in technical categories were heavily focused on the explosive "Through the Valley" and include: Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour Or More), "Day One" Outstanding Contemporary Costume, for "Through the Valley" Outstanding Picture Editing for a Drama Series, "Through the Valley" Outstanding Contemporary Hairstyling, "Through the Valley" Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup, "Feel Her Love" Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score), "Future Days" Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour), "Through the Valley" Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour) "Through the Valley" Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Season or a Movie All this comes with the caveat that these are HBO's official Emmy entries; anyone can submit on their own and still make the final ballot, which could apply to recognizable guest stars like Josh Peck, Danny Ramirez, Alanna Ubach, Rutina Wesley, and Hettienne Park. Best of GoldDerby 'The Pitt' star Supriya Ganesh on Mohan 'reworking' her trauma and when she'll realize Abbot is flirting with her Dream Team: 'Étoile' creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino on the secrets of their partnership: 'You want to be jealous of something someone has done' TV sound editors roundtable: 'Adolescence' and 'Secret Level' Click here to read the full article.
The Hindu
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
‘The Last of Us' Season 2 finale review: A somewhat jumbled set-up for Season 3
The finale of the second season of Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann's The Last of Us, 'Convergence', tries desperately to tie the disparate elements from earlier episodes to partial success. While there is the sound and fury of the elements indicated in the title, it does not come together cohesively to complete any arc. There are episodes including the second one, 'Through the Valley', featuring Joel's (Pedro Pascal) horrific death at the hands of Abby (Kaitlyn Dever), in the midst of an attack by the ravaging hoards of the infected, that feel like a mini movie, and others were nothing much happens. The Last of Us Season 2 (English) Creators: Craig Mazin, Neil Druckmann Cast: Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna, Isabela Merced, Young Mazino, Kaitlyn Dever Episode: 7 Runtime: 50 minutes Storyline: Ellie finally catches up with Abby and acknowledges a terrible truth about herself 'Convergence' comes after the lovely, contemplative, achingly poignant 'The Price' where we see the bond between Joel and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) flower, wither and promise to bloom again over Ellie's birthdays through the years. On her 15th birthday, Joel gives her a handmade guitar. For her 16th, he takes her to an abandoned museum where Ellie is fascinated with the thought of space travel. On her 17th birthday, Joel gruffly exclaims at all teenage stuff coming at once — drugs, tattoos and sex. On her 19th birthday, Ellie goes out on her first patrol. The way Joel deals with Eugene (Joe Pantoliano), who has been bitten, after swearing to Ellie he will take him back to town to say goodbye to his wife, Gail (Catherine O'Hara), finds Ellie figuring out the truth about the carnage at the hospital. When nine months later after the New Year's Eve party in Episode 1, Ellie confronts Joel about the fate of the Fireflies at the hospital, Joel confesses the truth, insisting he would do it again. It is Ellie's reply that she could never forgive him but would like to try that creates the poignancy as Joel's death put paid to that rapprochement. The introduction of Isaac Dixon (Jeffrey Wright), the former FEDRA officer who kills his squad and joins the WLF, and the Seraphite cult, is a sufficiently brutal lead-up to the big confrontation in the finale. That the payoff is not as satisfying is putting it mildly. That bullet fired at the end and the fade to black is as clumsy a cliffhanger as there could be and the switch to Abby's perspective, while echoing the game, seems ill-judged as far as pacing goes. Even though Mel's (Ariela Barer) death is cruel and underlines the causalities of conflict, it is good that Ellie does not kill Alice, the WLF dog, like in the game. There is only so much brutality one can take. The production value remains gorgeous and the aquarium and island shots in the pelting rain are spectacular as is Ellie's desperate boat ride. Ramsey does their best to capture the hurt and hatred as well as the goofiness of a young person on the threshold of adulthood as Ellie, while Pascal's Joel is the brother, father, friend anyone would want. Wright's Isaac, while terrifying, is frustratingly underwritten. Isabela Merced brings fire and fun to Dina, proving an effective foil to the impetuous Ellie. Season 2 of The Last of Us lurches from crisis to crisis, with long lulls of running and shooting doing nothing to move the story along. Maybe instead of splitting Part II of the eponymous game into many seasons, the makers could have opted for a longer second season with a mid-season break. The Last of Us is currently streaming on JioHotstar
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
For 'The Last of Us' cast, music was a throughline on and off screen
Throughout HBO's post-apocalyptic series 'The Last of Us,' music plays a role in setting the mood for moments big and small, heartfelt and heart-wrenching. It's not unlike the video game, which was hailed for its original soundtrack by Gustavo Santaolalla (who is also a composer on the show), and for the pop music covers that helped to elevate the narrative. In the most recent episode of Season 2 of 'The Last of Us,' titled 'The Price,' there's a callback to a scene from the game that fans have been waiting for: Joel (Pedro Pascal) performs a stripped down version of Pearl Jam's 'Future Days' for Ellie (Bella Ramsey). The song captures the themes of loss and losing yourself, but also of moving forward together. And it's not the only instance of a pop song showcasing characters' emotions — in 'Day One,' the fourth episode of Season 2, Ellie performs an acoustic cover of A-ha's 'Take on Me' as Dina (Isabela Merced) walks in and gently persuades her to continue playing the tender rendition. It's another adaptation from the video game that signals the kindling of the relationship between Ellie and Dina. 'Bella is playing the guitar in the scene where Ellie plays the guitar and sings 'Take on Me' to Dina. That's Bella. No tricks,' said Craig Mazin, co-creator of 'The Last of Us,' in an interview earlier this year. For Neil Druckmann, co-creator of the series and the video game franchise, he knew that when Ramsey was cast, the actor's musical abilities would be an asset for future installments. 'I remember seeing a video of them playing and singing and talking to Craig and being like, 'Oh, they're ready to go for if we get to Season 2,'' he said. Ramsey, however, isn't alone in their musical abilities. Over the course of the season in interviews with the cast and creators of the series, it became clear that music was a shared passion that bonded them on and off screen. Here, we collect some of their thoughts on music and performing together. For Bella Ramsey, music has been another creative outlet that brings them joy. In an interview before the launch of Season 2, Ramsey would only tease the possibility of Ellie picking up a guitar like in the game, but did share that making music is something they were doing 'quietly at the moment.' Read more: Bella Ramsey is embracing the difficult parts of Ellie and 'The Last of Us' 'Up until recently, I've been very embarrassed by music and not very confident in it at all, my own music,' Ramsey told The Times. But 'through the producers that I've been working with [and] an amazing music manager, Tom, I feel really excited about it now.' While Ramsey isn't quite sure when they'll be releasing any of their own music — they headed directly into production of an indie film following 'The Last of Us' press tour — they said that when they do, it will 'probably [be] in a sneaky way.' 'Making music has sort of given me the same feelings of like joy and satisfaction that being on set gives me,' Ramsey said. If you follow Gabriel Luna on Instagram, many of the stories and posts he's published over the course of the second season have featured him performing on red carpets or with his castmates, jamming during down time on the set of the show. (While in London for one of the show's premieres, he "bought a guitar because my hands were just itching.") In an interview tied to the third episode, he spoke about the mutual admiration between the actors in the cast: "There's real love there, even among the people who are onscreen nemeses, mortal enemies. I think that's what makes it safe to hate each other, to seek each other's demise [onscreen].' Read more: Gabriel Luna on Tommy's goodbye to Joel in 'The Last of Us' and its double meaning That love is evident in those jam sessions, which have included covers of the Cranberries and Radiohead. But a video featuring him strumming a guitar with his young castmate Ezra Agbonkhese, who plays Tommy's son Benjamin, is one of the sweetest. Agbonkhese and Luna duet to 'Off Road Racing Truck' by Twenty Trucks, which you guessed it, is about racing trucks. According to Young Mazino, guitars were a lifesaver on the set of 'The Last of Us.' 'We all brought a guitar without even telling each other so there was always a guitar on set,' Mazino told The Times in advance of the show's fifth episode. 'Bella, Isabella, Gabriel … Somebody would be playing some tune or a song, and if we knew it, we join in [or] we learn it.' Read more: 'The Last of Us' star Young Mazino on Jesse, the show's 'gentle monster' The world of the series is plenty bleak with the ever present threat of the fungal infection that turns human hosts into ravenous, zombie-like creatures. In Season 2, Mazino's character Jesse had to track his closest friends, who are on a quest for vengeance, into a war zone. He explained that everybody's love of music and 'trad[ing] songs like Pokémon' helped provide some needed levity during marathon shooting days where things tended to get heavy. 'Isabella and Bella would randomly break out into an a cappella somewhere,' Mazino said. 'I could just hear their angelic voices in the mix while I'm brooding in a corner getting ready.' Sign up for Screen Gab, a free newsletter about the TV and movies everyone's talking about from the L.A. Times. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
For ‘The Last of Us' cast, music was a throughline on and off screen
Throughout HBO's post-apocalyptic series 'The Last of Us,' music plays a role in setting the mood for moments big and small, heartfelt and heart-wrenching. It's not unlike the video game, which was hailed for its original soundtrack by Gustavo Santaolalla (who is also a composer on the show), and for the pop music covers that helped to elevate the narrative. In the most recent episode of Season 2 of 'The Last of Us,' titled 'The Price,' there's a callback to a scene from the game that fans have been waiting for: Joel (Pedro Pascal) performs a stripped down version of Pearl Jam's 'Future Days' for Ellie (Bella Ramsey). The song captures the themes of loss and losing yourself, but also of moving forward together. And it's not the only instance of a pop song showcasing characters' emotions — in 'Day One,' the fourth episode of Season 2, Ellie performs an acoustic cover of A-ha's 'Take on Me' as Dina (Isabela Merced) walks in and gently persuades her to continue playing the tender rendition. It's another adaptation from the video game that signals the kindling of the relationship between Ellie and Dina. 'Bella is playing the guitar in the scene where Ellie plays the guitar and sings 'Take on Me' to Dina. That's Bella. No tricks,' said Craig Mazin, co-creator of 'The Last of Us,' in an interview earlier this year. For Neil Druckmann, co-creator of the series and the video game franchise, he knew that when Ramsey was cast, the actor's musical abilities would be an asset for future installments. 'I remember seeing a video of them playing and singing and talking to Craig and being like, 'Oh, they're ready to go for if we get to Season 2,'' he said. Ramsey, however, isn't alone in their musical abilities. Over the course of the season in interviews with the cast and creators of the series, it became clear that music was a shared passion that bonded them on and off screen. Here, we collect some of their thoughts on music and performing together. For Bella Ramsey, music has been another creative outlet that brings them joy. In an interview before the launch of Season 2, Ramsey would only tease the possibility of Ellie picking up a guitar like in the game, but did share that making music is something they were doing 'quietly at the moment.' 'Up until recently, I've been very embarrassed by music and not very confident in it at all, my own music,' Ramsey told The Times. But 'through the producers that I've been working with [and] an amazing music manager, Tom, I feel really excited about it now.' While Ramsey isn't quite sure when they'll be releasing any of their own music — they headed directly into production of an indie film following 'The Last of Us' press tour — they said that when they do, it will 'probably [be] in a sneaky way.' 'Making music has sort of given me the same feelings of like joy and satisfaction that being on set gives me,' Ramsey said. If you follow Gabriel Luna on Instagram, many of the stories and posts he's published over the course of the second season have featured him performing on red carpets or with his castmates, jamming during down time on the set of the show. (While in London for one of the show's premieres, he 'bought a guitar because my hands were just itching.') In an interview tied to the third episode, he spoke about the mutual admiration between the actors in the cast: 'There's real love there, even among the people who are onscreen nemeses, mortal enemies. I think that's what makes it safe to hate each other, to seek each other's demise [onscreen].' That love is evident in those jam sessions, which have included covers of the Cranberries and Radiohead. But a video featuring him strumming a guitar with his young castmate Ezra Agbonkhese, who plays Tommy's son Benjamin, is one of the sweetest. Agbonkhese and Luna duet to 'Off Road Racing Truck' by Twenty Trucks, which you guessed it, is about racing trucks. According to Young Mazino, guitars were a lifesaver on the set of 'The Last of Us.' 'We all brought a guitar without even telling each other so there was always a guitar on set,' Mazino told The Times in advance of the show's fifth episode. 'Bella, Isabella, Gabriel … Somebody would be playing some tune or a song, and if we knew it, we join in [or] we learn it.' The world of the series is plenty bleak with the ever present threat of the fungal infection that turns human hosts into ravenous, zombie-like creatures. In Season 2, Mazino's character Jesse had to track his closest friends, who are on a quest for vengeance, into a war zone. He explained that everybody's love of music and 'trad[ing] songs like Pokémon' helped provide some needed levity during marathon shooting days where things tended to get heavy. 'Isabella and Bella would randomly break out into an a cappella somewhere,' Mazino said. 'I could just hear their angelic voices in the mix while I'm brooding in a corner getting ready.'
News18
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News18
Pedro Pascal's Joel Leaves Fans Teary-Eyed With His Return In The Last Of Us 2
Last Updated: In the latest episode of The Last of Us season 2, Pedro Pascal's character Joel Miller makes a remarkable return. Pedro Pascal, known for his roles in movies like Game of Thrones, Gladiator II, and Strange Way of Life, also gave a nuanced portrayal of Joel Miller in the drama The Last of Us. He delivered a performance worth remembering. From capturing Joel's internal conflicts and paternal instincts to his firm decision to kill Eugene, a fellow Jackson resident, after he got infected and many other such intriguing moments. Additionally, it was when Joel Miller was ruthlessly killed by Kaitlyn Dever's Abby in the second episode of The Last of Us season 2, which left a deep void in many hearts. Undoubtedly, flashback moments of such a character in the sixth episode of the show, adapted from the hit video game series by Naughty Dog, struck a chord with those fans. The flashback moments reflected on the half-decade gap between the two seasons of American post-apocalyptic drama, set twenty years into a pandemic caused by a mass fungal infection, which causes its hosts to transform into zombie-like creatures. Additionally, Joel confesses to Ellie (played by Bella Ramsey) about his earlier lie regarding the Fireflies. Meanwhile, the viewers were also offered a glimpse of Joel's childhood, wherein he was found confronting his abusive father. The array of emotions after the brutal killing of Joel, which led Ellie to seek revenge, got mixed reactions online. In a post on X, a person wrote, 'What a fantastic episode the penultimate episode of the second season is. Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey devour the screen." The Last of Us no es sólo la serie de un apocalipsis de infectados. Son las relaciones humanas bajo ese contexto, y sobre eso, qué capitulazo el penúltimo de la segunda temporada. Pedro Pascal y Bella Ramsey se devoran la pantalla. — Axel (@AxlCalva) May 20, 2025 Someone said, 'I'm 85% sure that the penultimate episode of The Last of Us Season 2 is Pedro Pascal's finest hour, and Bella Ramsey is firing on all cylinders in a way that feels abnormal. Just extraordinary work in what's easily my favorite episode of the season." I'm 85% sure that the penultimate episode of The Last of Us Season 2 is Pedro Pascal's finest hour, and Bella Ramsey is firing on all cylinders in a way that feels abnormal. Just extraordinary work in what's easily my favorite episode of the season. — Brandon Lewis (@blewis1103) May 19, 2025 Meanwhile, a person dismissed Pascal's return and commented, 'The Last of Us 2×06 – 'The Price'. Pedro Pascal's performance in this episode f****** wrecked me man. Heartwarming and heartbreaking all at the same time…absolutely brilliant." The Last of Us 2×06 – 'The Price"Pedro Pascal's performance in this episode fucking wrecked me man. Heartwarming and heartbreaking all at the same time…absolutely brilliant. — k A fourth comment read, 'About The Last of Us, this last Sunday's episode was a great farewell for Joel! What an actor Pedro Pascal is! Bella Ramsey makes Ellie an unbearable young adult with all her certainties, and at the same time makes us understand why Joel has her as a daughter. Very good episode," reads the translation of the tweet originally made in Spanish. Sobre The Last of Us, esse episódio do último domingo foi uma despedida foda pro Joel! Que ator é Pedro Pascal! Bella Ramsey faz a Ellie ser uma jovem adulta insuportável com todas as suas certezas e ao mesmo tempo nos faz entender pq Joel a tem como filha. Episódio muito bom! — raphael (@aquelerapha) May 20, 2025 'Thank you, Pedro Pascal, for bringing one of my favourite video game characters to life in live action. Joel Miller meant so much to me in The Last of Us games and show, and I couldn't have asked for a better adaptation of the character on screen," echoed a similar sentiment on X. thank you Pedro Pascal for bringing one of my favorite video game characters to life in live action. Joel Miller meant so much to me in The Last of Us games and show and i couldn't have asked for a better adaptation of the character on screen #TheLastOfUs — ashton luck (@ashton_luck) May 20, 2025 The seventh and final episode of The Last of Us Season 2 will be released on May 26 on JioHotstar. First Published: May 21, 2025, 16:47 IST
