Season 1

Episodes • 2013

Hush

1. Hush

4 min

A look at the origin and characteristics of the Infected in the first video of The Last of Us Development series.

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Wasteland Beautiful

2. Wasteland Beautiful

4 min

The concept a post-pandemic world is usually fraught with every visual descriptor except "beautiful." Naughty Dog has taken a very different approach by simply asking the question: what happens to the world after we're gone?

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Death and Choices

3. Death and Choices

4 min

Scavenging the paltry resources leftover from a devastated world makes each use a meaningful one, and each player action a storytelling moment.

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Them or Us

4. Them or Us

4 min

The brutality of edge-case survival isn't just a setting, for Naughty Dog it's also a way of visceral connection to the player through the rulesets that bind their actions in the game world.

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Joel and Ellie

5. Joel and Ellie

4 min

An exploration of the relationship that Joel and Ellie develop in spite of and because of the insane world in which they've come together.

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The Beauty of Abandonment

6. The Beauty of Abandonment

4 min

A wordless study of the world, events, and characters through the lens of art. Set to a musical score from composer Gustavo Santaolalla.

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