Last night’s episode of The Last Of Us, HBO’s blockbuster drama about life in the mushroom-zombie apocalypse, ended with a Pearl Jam song that’s been part of the Last Of Us lore since before The Last Of Us was a TV show. The show is based on a pair of much-loved video games, and in 2020’s That Last Of Us II, there’s an emotional scene where one character plays “Future Days,” a song from Pearl Jam’s 2013 album Lightning Bolt, for another. (In the show’s reality, the civilized world ended in 2003, so I don’t know how that song had a chance to exist, but nevermind.) Last night’s episode of the Last Of Us TV show included an emotional callback to that moment. Now, Pearl Jam have released a new EP that’s a tie-in with The Last Of Us. On their website, the band writes, “If you know, you know.”
