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The Last of Us Game/Show Changes, Explained By The Editors

The Editing Podcast

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TV - Seeing That Red Shirt

The game has this great limitation where it's like you're seeing the whole experience through Joel's perspective. With TV, you have the ability to shift perspective. One of the more interesting changes is the ending scene with Henry and Sam. In the game, when Henry does choose to take his life, we cut to Joel. But in this case, it cut to Ellie. And we held on Ellie. I think that was one of the moments I thought was actually a really, really beautiful change.

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