After landing 16 Emmy nominations for season two of The Last of Us , its stars and creative team took a look back at the emotional season at HBO Max’s Nominee Celebration on Sunday.

Pedro Pascal , Bella Ramsey , Kaitlyn Dever , Joe Pantoliano and editor Timothy Good joined co-creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann at the event, with the season’s second episode — which sees Dever’s Abby brutally murder Pascal’s main character, Joel — the subject of much of the conversation.

“You’re so inside of it that you really kind of lose sight of what it will mean when a TV audience experiences episode two of season two,” Pascal told the crowd, and given that Joel also dies in the video game that the series is based on, “I’m like, ‘Well, everyone knows this is gonna happen,’ because I’v

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