This article contains spoilers For the premiere of season 2 of “The Last of Us”.

“The Last of Us” has an interesting approach with regard to video game adaptations. For the most part, The show plays like a remake shot-for-com video game of the same name Directed by Cruce Straley and Neil Druckmann and developed by Studio Naughty Dog. Except that the series does something unexpected from time to time, to devote an episode to tell the background of a minor character, most players who are missing, or totally original prologues who show how Cordyceps fungal infection started abroad.

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Regarding Meta references to the Games, “The Last of Us” finds a good balance between wink to the public and loving tributes to people who helped play the game. The casting of Ashley Johnson as a mother of Ellie, A beautiful cameo that works on several levels because of Ellie’s representation by Johnson in video games – while Joel’s original actor, Troy Baker, was distributed as the right man of a Cannibal killer. MetateXtually, the original Ellie actor giving birth to Ellie is a phenomenal choice, and if you have not played the games, the show does not really draw attention to the choice of casting.

During the first in season 2, tributes continue with a flashing cameo and yourself that even players may not notice, but is another metatextual tribute to the people who made “The Last of Us” a series of special video games. No, it is not Neil Druckmann or Laura Bailey, but rather the man responsible for the phenomenal sound of the two games and also for television adaptation – the composer Gustavo Santaolalla.

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Gustavo Santaollala was already a music legend in his own before becoming a game of “The Last of Us”. The Argentinian musician was part of the first wave of Spanish rock in Argentina as part of the Arco Iris group in the late 1960s. Then, in the 80s, Santaolalla became complete in the rise of “Rock en Español” by working as a producer for some of the greatest artists of the Spanish rock genre like Café Tacvba, Los Prisioneros, Molotov, others. As a composer, Santaolalla composed fantastic scores for “Amores Perros”, “The Motorcycle Diaries”, “Brokeback Mountain” and “The Book of Life” in addition to “The Last of Us”.

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Santaolalla is responsible for Give “The Last of Us” its emotionally impactful and distinct soundIt is therefore logical that he presents himself during the premiere of season 2 by playing a guitar.

In the first, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Dina (Isabela Merced) go to a New Year’s party in Jackson, the brother of the Joel community (Pedro Pascal) Tommy (Gabriel Luna) helped to found. We see a group playing at the party and a man of familiar appearance with long gray hair shredding the classic guitar. It is Gustavo Santaolalla himself as a guitarist, paying tribute to his own role in the manufacture of “Last of Us” games.