‘The Last of Us’ S2E6 Precap: An Episode of Gut Punches, Plus, Co-creator Neil Druckmann and Writer Halley Gross

The Prestige TV Podcast

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4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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It’s the penultimate episode! Jo and Rob recap Episode 6 of ‘The Last of Us’ and get nostalgic with some key character flashbacks. (0:00) Intro (1:56) Addressing viewer criticism (21:33) Mushroom apocalypse museum choice (26:27) Digging into Joel’s flashbacks (33:10) The complicated father-daughter relationship (53:54) Co-creator Neil Druckmann and writer Halley Gross (1:22:25) **SPOILERS** Email us! [email protected] Subscribe to the Ringer TV YouTube channel here for full episodes of ‘The Prestige TV Podcast’ and so much more! Hosts: Joanna Robinson and Rob Mahoney Guest: Neil Druckmann and Halley Gross Producers: Kai Grady and Donnie Beacham Jr. Additional Production Support: Justin Sayles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome back to the Prestige TV podcast feed.
0:15.9	I'm Joanna Robinson.
0:16.9	I'm Rob Mahoney.
0:17.9	We're here to talk to you about the penultimate episode of The Last of Us.
0:23.3	This is called The Price.
0:25.7	And it is written by Craig Mason, Neil Druckman, Holly Gross, and it is directed by Neil Druckman.
0:32.6	And today on the podcast, we have a chat with Holly Gross and Neil Druckman about the episode. So straight from
0:39.8	the non-shimmer horse's mouth is what you will enjoy on this podcast today. So Rob and I are
0:46.4	going to do our usual thing. We're going to talk about the episode. We have a lot of emails from
0:51.4	you guys that we want to get to. And then we'll do the interview. And then we will at the end have a sort of emails from you guys that we want to get to, and then we'll do the interview,
0:55.1	and then we will at the end have a sort of look-ahead, spoilery chat, earn our pre-cap title.
1:03.6	Sounds good.
1:04.6	Okay, so Rob Mahoney, we got a ton of emails.
1:08.5	We sure did.
1:09.5	You sent a prompt down to the world.
1:10.8	We got a ton of emails. Remind me where You sent a prompt down to the world. We got a ton of emails.
1:12.1	Remind me where folks can reach us if they want to email us.
1:15.1	You know what, Joe?
1:15.5	They can always reach us at PrestigeTV at Spotify.com.
1:18.8	But for the last of us specifically, I would encourage you to email, this is your brain on shrooms at gmail.com. And yeah, I put out to our listeners last week that I wanted to hear non-gamer's impressions
1:30.9	of Ellie this season.
1:32.1	We were hearing a lot from the gamers.
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