With The Last of Us Season 2 officially in the books, all eyes are on how HBO plans to tackle the second half of The Last of Us: Part II . The answer is clearer now: Craig Mazin is moving forward as the show’s lone writer after co-creator Neil Druckmann and co-writer Halley Gross stepped away to focus on a new game at Naughty Dog. Mazin recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about what this shift means for Season 3, and he sounded surprisingly energized.

“This is kind of my favorite time. It’s very quiet. It’s just sitting here with my wonderful ergonomic keyboard and clacking away. The pages are happening, and I get to be a monk for a while, which I love, and I just write. It’s the purest form of what I do. And then in just a couple of months or so, that happy time wi

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