“Some of us just can’t be saved.” If you caught that line on “The Last of US” season 2, section 3 – or said that to yourself sometime during 2024 Orsidential election – Showrunner Craig Mazin Don’t draw all the parallels you think. Asked if the impact real news can have on a story TV The audience, Mazin told IndieWire, “It’s hard to say sometimes.”
“I think we overestimate how much people apply what is happening in the world around them to their experience of watching a TV show or will watch a movie,” he said. “It feels like a natural thing to imagine that they make the allegory contacts, but the truth is that I’m not sure we do them so much and I’m not sure they are looking at them that way so much.”
He continued, “People often join these things on their own terms. What I know is that when times are difficult, our business has always given people joy, an” escape “. People call it” an escape. “I don’t think it’s an escape.
A legendary title in the video game world, ”The last of us Part II ”won hundreds of this year’s game after meeting consoles in June 2020. At the same time, the Covid-19 lock helped to burn Several controversy around Naughty dog’s bold sequel – including the decision to kill a beloved character (Mazin unpacked that bombing shell for indieWire separately) and give hero Ellie (played by Bella Ramsey for HBO) a queer love interest (Isabela Merced).
Talk to IndieWire before “The Last of Us” Season 2 premiered on April 13, Mazin defended their love for the source material. He also explained how thoroughly imagined characters can make an apocalypse feel more epic. Even adapted historical events for “Chernobyl”, HBO’s Emmy-winning miniseries from 2019 about the notorious Ukrainian nuclear disaster, said Mazin that his instinct “was to drill into the real, human relations.”
“It is not the event in the end that draws us dramatically,” he said. “What pulls us is to witness people and how they relate to each other in ways that are universally reasoned with who we are.”
Seemingly referring to American politics (but hey, maybe not!) Mazine continued, “None of us live in a fungal apocalypse – not yet. Feels like we’re turning, but we’re not there. But we connect to the story of Joel and Ellie because we understand their story. To keep the people we love them and how we hurt them by trying to keep them by trying to keep them by trying
He concluded, “these are themes that we all handle as children, as parents, like friends, all of us, all of us, and this season goes a little deeper along the way what it means when you start thinking about yourself and the people you love as” us “, which of course begins to create a limit beyond” them. “Well there on” them “? They are” us “and we are” them. “And now, when we are in opposition, how do we get out of this and how do we solve things?”
“The Last of US” Season 2 airs new episodes on Sunday nights at 21 at HBO and Max.
