[Opinion] 'The Last Of Us' Creator Neil Druckmann Believes He Was Able To Successfully "Recapture The Moment" Of Abby And Joel's Confrontation For HBO Series

'The Last Of Us' Creator Neil Druckmann Believes He Was Able To Successfully "Recapture The Moment" Of Abby And Joel's Confrontation For HBO Series

Joel (Pedro Pascal) tries to find some common ground with Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) in The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 2 "Through the Valley" (2025), HBO In the opinion of The Last of Us franchise creator Neil Druckmann, while most video game adaptations fail to faithfully adapt and/or truly capture the emotional weight of their source material, he and HBO series showrunner Craig Mazin were able to pull off just that when it came to retelling Abby an…