Where to watch The Last of Us (2023)
The Last of Us is available to stream in US on HBO, HBO Max, Spectrum On Demand and YouTube TV. It can also be rented or bought from AppleTV.
Twenty years after civilization collapses, a hardened survivor is hired to escort a teenage girl out of an oppressive quarantine zone. Their assignment grows into a dangerous journey across a devastated United States, where survival depends on trust, resilience, and their growing reliance on each other.
Cast: Darcy Laurie, Bella Ramsey, Keiran Bohay, Gabriel Luna, Isabela Merced, Young Mazino, Pedro Pascal, John Hannah, Josh Brener, Christopher Heyerdahl, Brad Leland, Marcia Bennett
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Trivia & production notes
- A film adaptation of The Last of Us was announced in 2014 but entered development hell and had its rights relinquished by 2019, when creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann decided the story required a television series instead.
- The Last of Us is the largest television production to be filmed in Alberta, generating CA$182 million for the province and creating 1,490 jobs.
- The first season's budget exceeded CA$100 million, or more than $10 million per episode, surpassing the budgets of each of Game of Thrones' first five seasons.
- The first season was originally planned for ten episodes but was reduced to nine during production.
- HBO renewed The Last of Us for a second season less than two weeks after the premiere of the first season.
- Casting for the first season took place virtually through Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, though both featured on Game of Thrones, had not met before filming The Last of Us and discovered they had instant chemistry during production.
- Craig Mazin prioritizes actors' inner qualities over their physical resemblance to the characters in the video game when casting.
- Casting for the second season was put on hold in May 2023 due to the Writers Guild of America strike, forcing actors to audition using scenes from The Last of Us Part II because scripts were unavailable.
- Neil Druckmann and Halley Gross stepped away from creative duties on the series in July 2025 to work on other projects, leaving Craig Mazin as sole showrunner for the third season.
Adapted from the Wikipedia article The Last of Us (TV series), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Rewritten for StreamShack; errors are ours — tell us about them.
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