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The Last of Us: Season 1 Episode 4 Review: Joel-Ellie Quality Time
As many of you already know, before we were blessed with HBO, Neil Druckmann & Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us, there were efforts underway to bring the video game franchise to the big screen with a live-action adaptation But now, thanks to actor Jeffrey Pierce (Tommy Miller in[...]
Succession
It's not like the prospect of watching Logan Roy (Brian Cox) & his family go nuclear on one another during the upcoming fourth season of HBO & Jesse Armstrong's award-winning Succession wasn't more than enough reason to tune in But after learning last week that the series would also be wrapping up its run with[...]
the idol
Since that time, three teasers for the drama have been released, but a Rolling Stone (RS) report that was released today is definitely not the kind of release the HBO Series was hoping for In "'The Idol': How HBO's Next 'Euphoria' Became Twisted 'Torture Porn,'" sources referenced in the report claim that the production has[...]
perry mason
With the second season of HBO's Matthew Rhys-starring Perry Mason set to hit our screens in less than a week, we're starting to see the press/marketing team ramping up the promotional machine to get the word out And who else better to have talking-up the critically-acclaimed series' return that Rhys himself? That's exactly what he did[...]
Supernatural/The Last of Us: Collins & Ackles Are Looking to Get Paid
And it's there that we get the references to "Jensen" and "Misha" in a letter that includes the telling lines, "I got ambushed on my way to relieve Misha at the monorail lookout" and "And tell Mish I'm sorry, I tried to hustle." Well, with the video game franchise being as huge as it is[...]
The Last of Us: Season 1 Episode 7 Review: Ramsey & Reid Shine
When HBO tasked creators Craig Mazin and Naughty Dog Visionary Neil Druckmann with compressing the events of the 2013 classic PlayStation game The Last of Us Part I into a nine-episode first season, the two went above and beyond to include the optional downloadable side adventure "Left Behind." The adventure served as a backstory and[...]
The Last of Us Season 1 Ep. 7 "Left Behind" Promo; S01E06 "Kin" BTS
But for now, we have a look at the season's penultimate episode (S01E07 "When We Are in Need") as well as a look back at this past weekend's episode, "Left Behind." Image: Screencap HBO's The Last of Us: Looking Ahead to S01E08 "When We Are in Need" / Looking Back at S01E07 "Left Behind" First up, we have[...]
The Last of Us: Season 1 Episode 7 Review: Ramsey & Reid Shine
The HBO series, naturally, exercises some creative liberties The following contains minor spoilers. Bella Ramsey and Storm Reid in "The Last of Us." Image courtesy of Liane Hentscher/HBO The Last of Us: Ellie and Riley's Journey We find Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Joel (Pedro Pascal) in the immediate aftermath of the episode "Kin" as the two are inside[...]
succession
It's safe to say that last week was a pretty rollercoaster one for HBO & Jesse Armstrong's award-winning Succession It started with co-stars Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong having a public back-and-forth over Strong's style of acting, followed with HBO and HBO Max content boss Casey Bloys not sounding super thrilled about the prospect of spinoffs[...]
From Star Harold Perrineau on Oz’s 25th Anniversary & Possible Reboot
While promoting the EPIX series, the actor spoke with TV Insider about the legacy of the revolutionary HBO prison drama that ran from 1997-2003, if a reboot is possible, and if he would return to serve as narrator During the HBO series created by Tom Fontana, Oz is short for the Oswald Correctional Facility, a[...]
Succession Season 4: HBO Spotlights Brian Cox in BTS Preview
When HBO & Jesse Armstrong's award-winning Succession returns on March 26th, viewers won't just be tuning into the fourth season of the Roys' family dysfunction – they'll be tuning into its final season "There are a few different aspects One, we could have said it as soon as I sort of decided, almost when we[...]
the last of us
That was our defense of HBO's Game of Thrones when, during the eighth season episode "The Last of the Starks," a time-traveling cup of coffee can be seen making its presence known- chilling on the table, next to Emilia Clarke's Daenerys And it looks like that will be our defense of Neil Druckmann & Craig Mazin's[...]
succession
Thought we're still a little more than a month away from the March 26th return of HBO & Jesse Armstrong's award-winning Succession for its fourth season, some rumblings continue to rumble behind the scenes Following up on comments he made back in 2021 regarding his concern for his co-star Jeremy Strong staying in character as[...]
house of the dragon
After covering what HBO and HBO Max content CEO Casey Bloys had to share regarding HBO Max's role in DC Studios heads James Gunn & Peter Safran's DCU, the Warner Bros Discovery all-star had some more thoughts to share on a number of other projects Speaking with Variety as part of an overall profile, Bloys[...]
Steven Spielberg, photo by BAKOUNINE / Shutterstock.com
 Instead of Kubrick's plan of it being a feature film, Spielberg will be turning Napoleon into a seven-part large-scale series for HBO "With the co-operation of Christiane Kubrick and Jan Harlan, we're mounting a large production for HBO based on Stanley's original script Napoleon."  Spielberg continued, "We are working on Napoleon as a seven-part limited[...]
The Last of Us: Season 1 Episode 6 Review: Joel’s Uneasy Reunion
It's probably to no one's surprise that Gabriel Luna was among those who were super psyched when HBO announced The Last of Us got renewed for a second season As creators Craig Mazin and Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann have much bigger plans to incorporate the events of 2020's Part II beyond one season, it's not[...]
The Last of Us: Season 1 Episode 6 Review: Joel’s Uneasy Reunion
She even made an appearance in arguably the most popular zombie apocalypse franchise in AMC's The Walking Dead, but apparently, the prospect of playing an established video game character in Maria for the HBO series adaptation of The Last of Us was intimidating Maria is the wife of Tommy Miller (Gabriel Luna), who finally meets[...]
The Last of Us: Season 1 Episode 6 Review: Joel’s Uneasy Reunion
As we're past the halfway point of season one in HBO's The Last of Us with three episodes left, we reach a watershed moment in the Naughty Dog PlayStation game that involves Joel (Pedro Pascal), his family, and traveling companion Ellie (Bella Ramsey) when they reach Jackson, Wyoming, their second of three stops "Kin" was[...]
oliver
Of course John Oliver was going to go after FOX "News" during the opening to the 10th season of HBO's Emmy Award-winning Last Week Tonight Especially when excerpts from sealed court filings by Dominion Voting Systems showed that (shocker!) a number of familiar FOX faces didn't believe the stuff they were spreading across the airwaves,[...]
the last of us
For Neil Druckmann & Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us, it's now six episodes down and three to go as the hit HBO series enters its final run of episodes for the season After an emotionally impactful reunion with Tommy (Gabriel Luna) and a change of heart regarding[...]
The Last of Us: Season 1 Episode 6 Review: Joel’s Uneasy Reunion
The latest episode of HBO's The Last of Us deals with Joel's (Pedro Pascal) watershed moment with Ellie a little differently than in the game In "Kin," Joel finally reunites with his brother Tommy (Gabriel Luna), while introducing his new traveling companion, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) During the events of the game, players only encounter Tommy,[...]
the last of us
But part of the reason why we are where we are is that Mazin & Druckmann lied – and we should be thanking them for it. Image: HBO Just so there's no confusion, I'm not one who automatically assigns morality to lying… meaning, I don't see the act of lying as automatically a bad thing[...]
true detective
In the upcoming season of HBO's crime anthology series, Detectives Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) & Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) look to solve the case of six men operating the Tsalal Arctic Research Station who vanished without a trace when the long winter night fell in Ennis, Alaska In doing so, the pair will have to[...]
The Last of Us: Season 1 Episode 4 Review: Joel-Ellie Quality Time
Jeffrey Pierce is one of a few actors (along with Troy Baker, Ashley Johnson, and Merle Dandridge) who was there from the very beginning when Naughty Dog released the 2013 megahit The Last of Us for the Sony PlayStation 3, its 2020 sequel Part II for PlayStation 4, and have a live-action adaptation presence on[...]
The Last of Us: Season 01 Episode 05 Review: A Rebel Without A Cause
Even with a number of important chapters remaining in the first season, fans of both the video game & hit HBO series are already getting their dumpster fires of random speculation raging over the second season of Neil Druckmann & Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us Unfortunately, not[...]
the last of us
While the bulk of his work is grounded with memorable films like 2013's Dallas Buyers Club and 2014's Kill the Messenger and TV series like AppleTV+'s The Morning Show and HBO's Big Little Lies, he's probably encountered one his most ambitious in HBO's The Last of Us, the TV adaptation of the Sony & Naughty[...]
The Last of Us: Lynskey, Johnson & Woodard on Horde Overrun Scene
HBO's The Last of Us wrapped one of the game's most important arcs in the episode "Endure and Survive," which saw a Kansas City suburb overrun by infested while introducing one of the franchise's most menacing threats in the bloater, an unstoppable hulking beast The scene in question involves Joel (Pedro Pascal), Ellie (Bella Ramsey),[...]
The Last of Us: Season 01 Episode 05 Review: A Rebel Without A Cause
It's something creators Craig Mazin and Naughty Dog visionary Neil Druckmann try to do in the HBO TV series adaptation expanding the duo's world around as they try to survive the Cordyceps pandemic Among those they meet are Henry and Sam, voiced respectively in the game by Brandon Scott and Nadji Jeter and played by[...]
The Last of Us: Ian Alexander on Interest in Reprising Lev For Series
While fans of The Last of Us are excited to see HBO announce their TV adaptation has been renewed for season two, creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann said the events of 2020's Naughty Dog PlayStation sequel in Part Two are too big to be contained within the second season One such actor who wouldn't[...]
The Last of Us: Melanie Lynskey on Mazin's Pitch for Kathleen & More
Where is Linda Hamilton when you need her?" Lynskey screenshot the attempt at body shaming before sending in her reply explaining the photo's context and her role as Kathleen on the HBO series "Firstly- this is a photo from my cover shoot for InStyle magazine, not a still from HBO's The Last Of Us And[...]