Pedro Pascal and Catherine O’Hara in The Last of Us. Joel is a troubled guy. Throughout the first Last of Us game (and subsequent TV adaptation on HBO, where he’s played by Pedro Pascal), he sees and does a lot of things he’d rather forget. He certainly doesn’t seem to want to talk abou t them much. Which is why it’s nice to see that, in the show’s second season, he’s finally seeing a therapist named Gail. Unlike most of the show’s cast, Gail (played by Catherine O’Hara) isn’t based on a character from the games but instead is a new creation specifically for the HBO series. And although she makes her debut in season 2, co-creator Craig Mazin says that introducing a therapist was actually something he wanted to do early on. “In a world where everyone has been traumatized … therapy would probably be useful” “We have opportunities to do things only we can do that the game can’t,” he tells The Verge. “I don’t think the game could’ve supported a very long cutscene between a therapist and Joel. But it was something that we had talked about all the way back in season 1, because it seemed to us that in a world where everyone has been traumatized, and you have to barter some skill as part of the new econ hellip; Read the full story at The Verge. ...read more read less