The HBO adaptation's latest installment picks up with Joel and Ellie five years after the events of Season 1 and is based on 2020's "The Last of Us: Part II"

In Season 2, episode 1, the set dressing of Ellie's (Bella Ramsey) room in Jackson, in the garage behind her and Joel's house, is such a pristine ode to her room in The Last of Us Part II I almost fell off my chair. But show has not only included some beloved items in the scene but some Easter eggs — as the team did in Ellie's room in Season 1.

21.The dance scene is almost an identical shot-for-shot recreation from the scene in The Last of Us Part II, right down to the same music. However, while the dance happens in real-time in the show, in the game, it's used as a flashback later on.