How The Production Designer For HBO's The Last Of Us Built Episode 7's Mall

The latest episode of HBO's The Last of Us included content from the first game's Left Behind DLC, where we learn how Ellie was bitten, but also shows us her first understanding of true, inconsolable loss. During this part of the game, Ellie has to fend for herself as Joel recovers from being impaled on broken glass, but also we flash back to her life before Joel and we see a slice of life as a teenager during the end of the world.

Ellie's best friend and crush Riley, played by Storm Reid in the series, sneak out to an abandoned mall where the two have an evening that's a quasi-date and get to live as teenagers did before the cordyceps outbreak. Tragically, the two are attacked and bitten by a formerly dormant Clicker. This is where Ellie finds out she is immune but also loses the person she loved most in the world.

Getting a mall built to recreate this moment wasn't an easy feat, but production designer John Paino was up to the challenge.

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