Last of Us TV Series Showrunner Wants You To Know He Didn't Kill Anyone In Real Life: 'The Actor Is Alive And He's In Literally Everything Else'

Warning! Spoilers for The Last of Us Season 2 follow.

The Last of Us Season 2 has been and gone, and though astir of america who played the 2nd crippled knew what was coming, it seems galore viewers did not — and showrunner Craig Mazin says he's inactive getting bewildered fans asking: "Why did you termination Pedro Pascal?"

"[Game creator and chap showrunner Neil Druckmann] did a thing. Everyone mislaid their sh*t, and past I had to bash that aforesaid thing, due to the fact that helium did the thing. I loved doing the thing, I thought it was great," Mazin said of Joel's death, astatine a Variety panel.

"The large ailment that I've gotten is, 'Why did you termination Pedro Pascal?' And I support explaining, we didn't termination him! He's a man, he's alive. He's fine. And he's successful virtually everything else. So I don't cognize what the occupation is!"

“People had precise beardown reactions to immoderate arguable communicative determination we made,” added Druckmann.

As for instrumentality hopes mostly for Season 2, Mazin said that though "the 2nd play comes with truthful galore expectations" and the squad "did larn a batch of lessons [...] you’re not allowed to marque those mistakes anymore, which is tragic."

"You bash consciousness unit to someway fulfill what radical privation but besides astonishment them," helium said. "You’re present a taxable of discussion, whereas earlier you were conscionable caller and surprising. I mean, the barroom for video crippled adaptations was beauteous low. We had that going for america successful Season 1 — present we benignant of f***ed ourselves.”

HBO has hailed the occurrence of The Last of Us Season 2, saying an "influx" of viewers had raised the series' planetary assemblage to implicit 90 cardinal since Season 1 ended, but insisted the Season 2 finale suffered debased viewing levels due to the fact that of the Memorial Day vacation weekend.

And past month, showrunner Craig Mazin indicated a 4th play is beauteous overmuch indispensable for the series. In an interview, Mazin agreed that successful bid to wrapper up The Last of Us’ communicative from the 2 Naughty Dog-developed video games successful Season 3 would mean Season 3 itself "would instrumentality forever." So, portion there's a "decent chance" Season 3 volition beryllium longer than Season 2, astatine the extremity of the day, "there’s nary mode to implicit this communicative successful a 3rd season."

Mazin and Neil Druckmann besides precocious fto america successful connected a small secret: they don't yet cognize "how much, oregon alternatively however little" immoderate of our favourite characters volition beryllium around.

The squad down the HBO bid stopped by IGN Live implicit the play to interruption down immoderate of the astir pivotal moments of the crippled to TV amusement adaptation and grow connected what it took to make scenes similar Joel's death, the horde attack, the planetarium, and more.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.