We only have four new episodes left of The Last of Us Season 1, which means there have already been a ton of amazing details, Easter eggs, and callbacks to the video games that you might've missed. So, below are some of the very best from the first five episodes:
🚨 There are obviously MASSIVE spoilers ahead for The Last of Us Episodes 1 through 5! 🚨
1. First, on Sarah's cork board in her room, you can spot a picture of her and Joel. When Episode 1 aired, Nico Parker, who plays Sarah, shared a photo of this exact Polaroid to her Instagram.
2. On Sarah's desk in her bedroom, you can spot that she's making a dinosaur birthday card. This is a direct reference to the video game when Sarah makes the same card for Joel but forgets to give it to him.
3. The Halican Drops T-shirt that Sarah wears on outbreak day is the same shirt she wears in The Last of Us Part 1 video game.
4. The movie Sarah borrows from her neighbor's house, Curtis and Viper 2, is a nod to Joel's favorite movie series in the video games.
5. Sarah jokes that she got the money to fix Joel's watch from "selling hardcore drugs," which is a direct line from The Last of Us Part 1.
6. When Joel, Sarah, and Tommy are escaping, The Last of Us brilliantly put the camera in the backseat of the car, so your view is the same as it is in the video game.
7. And while Joel, Sarah, and Tommy are driving, they pass several things they also pass in the first game, like Jimmy's place burning and the family on the side of the road.
8. In 2023, you'll notice that Joel's wearing the watch that Sarah had repaired for his birthday, except it doesn't work anymore. The watch was broken the night Sarah died, meaning the time is likely stopped at Sarah's time of death.
9. Merle Dandridge stars as Marlene in the TV show, and she voiced the character in The Last of Us video games as well. So far, she's the only voice actor from the games to play the same role in the TV adaptation.
10. When Ellie opens the book of Billboard Number 1 hits, you'll notice "B/F" at the top of the note indicating what each decade of music means. We see the letters before Ellie overhears Tess and Joel talking about Bill and Frank.
11. And the note is on the page with "The Long and Winding Road" and "For You Blue" by the Beatles at the top. Both songs were released in 1970, which means Bill and Frank got "new stock" if they played it.
12. The moment when Joel takes a nap and Ellie remarks on his watch being broken is taken directly from The Last of Us Part 1.
13. At the very end of Episode 1, if you look closely, you can spot a clicker on the roof of a building.
14. And the song that comes on the radio at the end of Episode 1 is "Never Let Me Down Again" by Depeche Mode, which was released in 1987, aka it's Bill and Frank signaling danger and likely alerting Joel and Tess to their deaths. In Episode 3, Joel explains to Ellie that '80s music would play if Bill didn't reset the countdown every few weeks.
