The Last of Us is a show at the height of the cinema, at least when it comes to building scenarios

The Last of Us It continues to release episodes, and each one is more spectacular than the last. For the fifth they have had to build a giant stage Worthy of a high budget movie.

Decades ago, movies and TV series were in a different league. The movies multiplied the budget of a series by 50, and the best actors, directors, scriptwriters, and technicians were there. If you didn’t make it in the movies, then you went to television, which was kind of second division.

All that changed with the arrival of Netflix and cable platforms HBO Max. The television started generate a lot of money with the subscriptionsand there was a lot of competition, so more and more money was injected into this medium.

With the big budgets came great actors and directorsand top notch technicians. And suddenly, TV series began to reach the level of movies.

A setting worthy of Hollywood

It is not something new. own HBO has been producing content for a long time has nothing to envy to Hollywoodfrom The Sopranos to Game of Thrones, or the recent The Last of Us.

The Last of Us is a post-apocalyptic drama that plunges us into a world ravaged by the infected, people who have been infected by a fungus and become ultra violent. A man who lost his daughter to the infection tries to help another young woman survive. You can watch the trailer here:

In it episode 5 this First seasona night scene occurs that required a huge stage with 16 housesand a wide open space.

Recreating that in a real environment is difficult, and even more so at night, so the team at The Last of Us He decided build it from scratchin a private environment where you could record without disturbance.

In this tweet from director of photography from the series, Eben Bolterwhat happened to us HobbyConsolesthe different construction phases of the scenario are compiled:

As we can see they started from a large lot, that seems to be located in a industrial Estatewhere they have been built 16 real-size wooden houses, and a main street that they have filled with cars.

The final result can be seen in the mentioned fifth episode of the serieswhich aired last week.

He Chapter 6 It will arrive on February 20. In total, this first season of The Last of Us, which will more or less cover the first video game in the saga, will have 9 episodes.

The Last of Us is being a great success with critics and spectators, and there is already confirmed a second season. It is broadcast exclusively on HBO Max. its huge real scenarios demonstrate the importance that HBO has given this series based on a video game series of PlayStation.