The Last of Us
2023SeriesEnglishBRYME editorial score 9/10
Twenty years after the world fell, a smuggler and a girl cross America. What she carries could save it — or end it.
Official trailer on YouTube · HBO Max · link verified 16 September 2026.
The story
HBO's adaptation of the beloved video game. Joel, a broken smuggler, must escort Ellie, a teenage girl immune to the fungal pandemic, across a ruined America. Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) and the game's creator Neil Druckmann co-wrote it.
Details the desk keeps
- The infected are based on a real fungus that controls ants' brains.
- Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey barely knew the game before auditioning.
- The mushroom tendrils are practical effects, not CGI.
- The show cost over $100 million — one of the most expensive TV seasons ever.
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