Im like, its okay.

You dont have to be a gamer to enjoy this story.

And with that,The Last of Uswas in production and during a global pandemic, no less.

The Last Of Us

Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal.Photographed by Josh Telles exclusively for Deadline

We were already in too deep by then, Strauss remembered.

We just had to keep going.

I guess it was an unhappy accident.

Honestly, the show has a lot of depressing things in it, to be fair, continued Mazin.

It has something for everyone really.

So our feeling was, eh, whats one more horrible thing?

Bill and Frank exist inThe Last of Usgame, but their romance is more implied than actually depicted.

In fact, you never see Frank in the game and their relationship ends badly.

The now memorable episode was directed by Peter Hoar.

The adaptation in the correct way is important.

And there are times where you want to just kind of go in a different way.

We didnt have that.

But I didnt really want to do some random, kind ofheres the way the world went.

It was just a wonderful time making that episode.

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