Watch : ‘The Last of Us’ Kills Off Major Character in Shocking Season 2 Episode For an entire season Pedro Pascal's Joel Miller struggled for a long time with survivin' on The Last of Us. And though he kept finding something to fight for, he finally lost that battle on the HBO series' April 20 episode. And while his death maybe shouldn't have felt shocking—after all, it went down exactly as it did in The Last of Us Part II, the 2020 video game season two is based on—seeing Joel impaled by former Fireflies member Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) as revenge for the death of her father was still a lot.

"I've never experienced anything like I did that day where I stepped onto set in full makeup and then killed the vibe completely as soon as anyone set their eyes on me," Pascal recalled of the experience to Entertainment Weekly. "This kind of shock and heartbreak…it was weird to be on the receiving end of that. It's like the extreme version of, 'Is there something on my face?'

I really could see this sort of grief take over everyone's look in their eyes."