‘The Last Of Us’ Debuts At No. 6 On Nielsen Streaming Charts, Outpacing ‘House Of The Dragon’ Viewership

Pedro Pascal had a curt response to a member of the paparazzi questioning him about The Last of Us’LGBT+ storylines. *Warning – spoilers ahead for The Last of Us*The HBO TV adaptation of the popular video game has featured two queer love stories in its first season.

HBO’s penultimate episode 8 of The Last Of Us delivered 8.1 million viewers Sunday night across HBO Max and linear telecasts. That’s up 74% from the series debut night in January and sets a new series high ahead of next Sunday’s season finale, per Nielsen and HBO.

Katcy Stephan SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from Episode 8 of “The Last of Us,” now streaming on HBO Max. Troy Baker has been at the center of the “Last of Us” universe for a decade. The esteemed voice actor originated the role of grizzly survivalist Joel Miller in the 2013 game and its sequel in 2020. When HBO’s series adaptation was announced, Baker didn’t expect to be a part of it. “If there was a role for me, then I would have been happy. But if not, I was completely content to just be an observer for this onel,” he says. Luckily, co-showrunner Neil Druckmann, who is also the co-creator of the game, had a role in mind for him.

Troy Baker knew that stepping onto the set of the HBO adaptation of “The Last of Us” would be an interesting experience. But he didn’t expect it to feel so uniquely “wonderful.”

would be an interesting experience. But he didn't expect it to feel so uniquely «wonderful.»The actor played Joel in video game franchise, a role that required much more than mere voice acting.

The Last of Us.” The series, led by Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, has been one of HBO Max’s biggest hits, attracting a large audience and dominating Twitter whenever a new episode drops. This week, the show hit an important milestone, cementing its first billion-minute week since its debut in January. Sarah Michelle Gellar looks back at Pedro Pascal’s role on ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’Pedro Pascal takes the NYC train with his sister Lux Pascal to enjoy an off-Broadway showA post shared by Pedro Pascal he/him (@pascalispunk)The news were first reported by Deadline, sharing that the series jumped in 36 percent viewership over the past week per Nielsen data.

With “Succession” heading into its final season later this month, “The Last Of Us” and its swift popularity may replace it, for a time, as HBO‘s show de l’instant. Would that surprise anyone? Two episodes remain in its first season, but “The Last Of Us” is already a major hit for the network, breaking all sorts of viewership records.

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Kenya Barris and Jonah Hill‘s romantic comedy You People managed to unseat Ginny & Georgia atop the Nielsen U.S. streaming charts for the week of January 23 to January 29.

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Rutina Wesley plays Maria on HBO’s The Last of Us and she recently admitted that taking on the role was something terrifying.

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Jordan Moreau SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from Episode 6 of “The Last of Us,” now streaming on HBO Max. HBO’s “The Last of Us” series just took a major leap to the video game’s sequel, “The Last of Us: Part II,” that fans are sure to recognize: The snowy Jackson, Wyoming, settlement where “Part II” begins was faithfully recreated in Episode 6 — despite not appearing in the original game. It’s the first major connection to “Part II” that the show has made. Without spoiling the events of the sequel, the wintery Jackson town is a major location in the opening hours of the game. In the original “The Last of Us,” players learn about Jackson from Tommy (Gabriel Luna) and Maria (Rutina Wesley), but they mainly stay at the hydroelectric dam encampment and see Jackson only at a distance. The section of the game also takes place during the fall, not the winter.

Zack Sharf HBO’s “The Last of Us” is one of the biggest shows of 2023 so far, so big that Sony Pictures Entertainment film chairman Tom Rothman is wishing the studio had gone ahead and turned the video game into a feature film. “The Last of Us” is based on the Sony Playstation game of the same name. “Yes,” Rothman answered when asked by Business Insider if he wishes “The Last of Us” was a Sony movie. “But I’m very happy for them and I think it’s better suited episodically. I’m jealous in the best way.” “The Last of Us,” starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, centers on survivors of a pandemic in a world where brain-eating fungus has decimated the human population. The show has been a ratings powerhouse for HBO, garnering over 7 million viewers in one night as of its fourth episode airing.

Selome Hailu “The Last of Us” has debuted on Nielsen’s weekly streaming Top 10 rankings with 837 million minutes watched from Jan. 16-22, the first full week that Episode 1 was available on HBO Max. And as Nielsen’s viewing window ends on Sunday nights, which is when the show debuts, this number also includes viewership of Episode 2 in its first few hours of streaming. This is the series’ first time making the chart, though Nielsen did previously report that Episode 1 was viewed for 233 million minutes during the Jan. 9-15 window, which only included the episode’s first few hours of availability. To contextualize that major accomplishment, 233 million is more than one-third of the viewership achieved by that week’s No. 10 title, which had been streaming for an entire week.

The Last of Us is HBO’s latest hit TV show and fans are riveted every week with the re-imagining of the video game of the same name.

HBO adaptation of “The Last of Us” are being called “pretentious” after banning the word “zombie” on the television show’s set, reported the Motion Picture Association site The Credits. “We weren’t allowed to say the Z word on set,” said cinematographer Eben Bolter “It was like a banned word. They were the Infected.

Five episodes in and the HBO series The Last Of Us has already become one of the most talked about shows of 2023.  The third episode of the series, which featured a gay storyline with Murray Bartlett and Nick Offerman playing a gay couple, won critical acclaim.Murray Bartlett (right) and Nick Offerman play a gay couple in the HBO series ‘The Last of Us’.Ramsey plays the role of teenager Ellie in the series, who is travelling with Joel, played by Pedro Pascal, across America, after a mutated Cordyceps fungus outbreak. The Last of Us is based on a very successful video game and in Part II of the original game, Ellie falls in love with another woman Dina and also introduces a trans character Lev. Ramsey, who is non-binary, told British GQ in an interview that she was not concerned with the reaction of homophobes. Ramsey revealed that she had worn a chest binder for most of the shooting of Season 1 and had “honest” conversations around gender and sexuality with Pascal, who has a trans sister. “And they weren’t always deep: they could be funny and humorous, the whole spectrum. We were just very honest and open with each other,” Ramsey told GQ. Blair Durkee, the associate director of gaming for GLAAD, told that for “many LGBTQ people, to see characters like yourself represented in the games you play can be critical.

Bella Ramsey is the star of HBO’s The Last of Us where she plays Ellie opposite Pedro Pascal’s Joel.