The Last of Us with Craig Mazin

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Sony Music

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv Reviews, Film Interviews

4.4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Vanguardistas have more fun—so if you don’t already subscribe to the podcast, join the Vanguard today via Apple Podcasts or extratakes.com for non-fruit-related devices. In return you’ll get a whole extra Take 2 alongside Take 1 every week, with bonus reviews, more viewing recommendations from the Good Doctors and whole bonus episodes just for you. And if you’re already a Vanguardista, we salute you. Reviews this week of French feelgood hit ‘The Marching Band’ (En Fanfare)--where a conductor in need of a bone-marrow transplant discovers a long-lost brother and undertakes an unexpected musical journey. Think Brassed Off, but more French. Also we have the edge-of-your-car-seat thriller ‘Hallow Road’ starring Rosamund Pike, and the usual run down of the Box Office Top 10 and all your erudite/hilarious/chin-strokey correspondence on those. The Good Doctors will also be talking ‘The Last Of Us’ series 2—and that’s because our very special guest this week is its showrunner Craig Mazin. In a bumper conversation that extends into Take 2 for Vanguardistas, he and Simon talk about the groundbreaking video-game adaptation series and his journey to creating it. Covering everything from storytelling secrets to the show’s brilliant needle drops, via revenge, grief and creativity, this one really goes places—don't miss it. Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free): En Fanfare (The Marching Band) Review: 08:15 Craig Mazin Interview: 26:03 The Last of Us S2 Review: 45:28 Hallow Road Review: 58:36 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo Please take our survey and help shape the future of our show: https://www.kermodeandmayo.com/survey EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] And to find out more about Sony’s new show Origins with Cush Jumbo, click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Ben here from Kermode and Mayo's Take. Now, there are some unique and fascinating stories coming to Netflix this month, all of them based on real life events. Out on 14th of May, we've got Fred and Rose West, a British horror story.
0:11.4	Now, back in 1994, Fred and Rose West's terrible crimes came to light. Fred took his own life in jail before he could be charged with 12 murders, and this doc brings police interview tapes to the screen screen which may be able to help answer some of the important questions about their crimes.
0:24.9	This is dark, it's unsettling.
0:26.7	I'm not going to pretend this is an easy watch but it's a gripping account and if you're
0:30.1	interested in a determined search for justice, you're in the right place.
0:33.9	And we've got three others coming up on Netflix in May. Britain and the Blitz, the story of Winston Churchill, through the prism of the Bliss, a deadly American marriage, incredible doc,
0:41.8	that tells this compelling layered story of the death of Jason Corbett at the hands of his wife
0:46.7	and her father. And then finally, Untold, the Liver King, which follows the rise, fall and rebirth
0:52.0	of Brian Johnson, who is this social media fitness and ancestral living influencer.
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1:04.0	Before we begin, a quick reminder that you can become a Vanguard Easter
1:07.3	and get an extra episode every Thursday,
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1:11.9	Extra viewing suggestions.
1:13.6	Viewing recommendations at home and in cinemas.
1:16.3	Plus your film and non-film questions answered as best we can in questions, Schmestians.
1:20.7	You can get all that extra stuff via Apple Podcasts or head to extra takes.com for non-fruit
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