The Last Of Us Drops Bonus Episode On HBO Max

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Whether you played the video games or not, The Last Of Us has become one of the most beloved video game series of all time and one of, if not the best video game adaptation of all time. Throughout its nine-episode season, one that ended on Sunday, it proved that you could faithfully adapt a game and translate it to the TV screen while expanding the story and characters meaningfully. While the show wasn’t flawless at times, it did make almost everything work. So why are we talking about it when the season is over?

That’s because it’s not over. A special “bonus episode” of the show has dropped on HBO Max, and as you’ll see in the teaser below, the focus of the episode is the behind-the-scenes action and moments that helped deliver the show that you saw. Make no mistake, while plenty of episodes had a “grounded” and “believable” look to them, plenty of work had to be done to make each episode shine. Even if it meant freezing the cast members as a result:

Dive deeper into the world of #TheLastOfUs with the cast and crew in a special behind the scenes featurette. Making of The Last of Us airs now on @HBO and is now streaming on @HBOMax. pic.twitter.com/ciwWdPNWcU

We’ve already got some behind-the-scenes looks at the end of every episode on HBO proper, and those also showed on HBO Max. We’ve also gotten showcases of how things went like with the giraffe scene. But through this 30-minute bonus episode, you’ll learn even more about what it took to make things work.

Sometimes the crew behind the movie aren’t always given the credit they’re due for all the work that they’ve done, so if nothing else, you should watch the special to honor them and see some of the little things they did to help make this first incredible season of