Pedro Pascal is back! How to watch Joel and Ellie in flashback episode of 'The Last of Us'

Pedro Pascal is back! How to watch Joel and Ellie in flashback episode of 'The Last of Us'

USA TODAY and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article. Pricing and availability subject to change. Spoiler alert! The following story contains details about Season 2 of HBO's "The Last of Us" (now streaming). "The Last of Us" fans can expect another dose of heartbreak, nostalgia and their favorite father-daughter duo in this week's episode. The penultimate episode of HBO's apocalypse drama series will see the return ofPedro Pascalin a flashback story that takes place beforeJoel Miller's tragic and brutal deathin Episode 2. The end of last week's episode hinted at a return to the past, showcasing events that take place between the first and second season. HBO shared images from the episode, promising viewers that they'll see Joel and Ellie together on their TV screens this weekend. Would you like to go to space?#TheLastOfUspic.twitter.com/kKW0edVh7l — The Last of Us (@TheLastofUsHBO)May 16, 2025 "Would you like to go to space?" the show's official X account wrote with a picture of Pascal as Joel holding a cassette tape teasing what's to come. Here's how to watch the last episode before the season finale. The next episode of "The Last of Us" Season 2 will drop on Sunday, May 18 at 6 p.m. PT / 9 p.m. ET on HBO and its streaming service Max,soon to be HBO Max (again). The Season 2 finale of "The Last of Us" will release on Sunday, May 25. Season 2 of "The Last of Us"contains seven episodes, with only two left. Episode 6:Sunday, May 18 Episode 7 (season finale):Sunday, May 25 New episodes of "The Last of Us" will air on HBO and be available to stream weekly on Sundays at 6 p.m. PT / 9 p.m. ET on Max. Season 1 of the series is also available to stream on Max. Max subscription plansbegin at $9.99 a month with ads, while ad-free subscriptions cost $16.99 a month. The highest tier, which is $20.99 a month, includes the ability to stream on four devices and offers 4K Ultra HD video quality and 100 downloads. HBO also offers bundles withHuluandDisney+. Watch 'The Last of Us' Season 2 with Sling + Max Pedro PascalandBella Ramseyreturned to reprise their leading roles as Joel and Ellie in "The Last of Us" Season 2. Theremaining Season 2 castalso includes the following: Gabriel Lunaas Tommy Miller Rutina Wesleyas Maria Miller Catherine O'Haraas Gail Kaitlyn Deveras Abby Anderson Isabela Mercedas Dina Young Mazinoas Jesse Ezra Benedict Agbonkheseas Benjamin Tati Gabrielleas Nora Ariela Bareras Mel Spencer Lordas Owen Jeffrey Wrightas Isaac Danny Ramirezas Manny Yes. Ahead of Season 2's premiere, HBO announced "The Last of Us" would be returning for a third season. However, it is unclear if Season 3 will be the show's final season. Deadline reported that co-creators Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin said they werepreviously contemplatingmaking up to four seasons. We occasionally recommend interesting products and services. If you make a purchase by clicking one of the links, we may earn an affiliate fee. USA TODAY Network newsrooms operate independently, and this doesn't influence our coverage. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Pedro Pascal is back! See Joel and Ellie in next 'The Last of Us'

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Pedro Pascal is back! How to watch Joel and Ellie in flashback episode of 'The Last of Us'

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Where Is the “Beverly Hills, 90210” Cast Now? See the Stars 25 Years After the Show Ended

Where Is the "Beverly Hills, 90210" Cast Now? See the Stars 25 Years After the Show Ended

Mikel Roberts/Sygma via Getty Twenty-five years after the series finale ofBeverly Hills, 90210aired on May 17, 2000, the cultural impact of the show lives on. Centered on a group of siblings and friends living in the posh Southern California town during their high school years and beyond, the show made stars of its young cast, which includedJennie Garth,Tori SpellingandBrian Austin Green. Beverly Hills, 90210later spawned a spinoff,Melrose Place, along with the 2008 reboot,90210. In 2019, many of the show's original stars returned forBH90210, a revival that was based on the real lives of the cast. In the years sinceBeverly Hills, 90210came to an end, the show's leads have expanded into careers of their own. However, the cast has also been touched by tragedy with the loss ofLuke PerryandShannen Doherty. So, where is the cast ofBeverly Hills, 90210now? Here's a look at what the stars are up to 25 years after the beloved franchise ended. Since her days as troubled Kelly Taylor, Jennie Garth has done a lot of TV work, including the sitcomWhat I Like About YoucostarringAmanda Bynes, which ended in 2006. She also reprised her role as a more responsible Kelly on the CW sequel series90210, which ran from 2008 to 2013. Garth played one of the lead characters on ABC Family's one-season sitcomMystery Girlsalongside herBeverly Hills, 90210costar Spelling before rejoining her longtime pal on the 2019Fox reboot series. After splitting with ex-husbandPeter Facinelli, with whom she has three daughters, Garthmarried Dave Abramsin 2015. The two hada brief 10-month separation, but in January 2025, they announced they hadcalled off their divorce. Harry Langdon/Getty ; Taylor Hill/WireImage Tori Spelling played Kelly's best friend, Donna Martin, who was originally written as a supporting character, but was developed into a main one throughout the series. Since then, the actress filled her time with a few reality shows — includingSo NotoriousandTori & Dean: Inn Love— and a 2016vampire Lifetime movie. In 2019, she reprised the role of Donna for a multi-episode arc ontheBH90210reboot. Off screen, Spelling is a motherto five childrenwhom she shareswith estranged husbandDean McDermott. Aside from playing Brandon's fierce twin sister, Brenda Walsh onBeverly Hills, 90210 —as well as the 2019 reboot — Shannen Doherty landed iconic roles onCharmedand in films like 1989'sHeathersand 1995'sMallrats. The actress had been open about her journey with breast cancer since her diagnosis in March 2015. She announced she was inremissionin April 2017 andunderwent breast reconstruction surgeryin May 2018. In early 2020,she announcedshe'd been diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer. However, Doherty continued to act, as she appeared in aRiverdaletribute episode for her lateBeverly Hills, 90210costarLuke Perry, who died in 2019, and starred in the 2021 filmFortressalongsideBruce WillisandChad Michael Murray. In April 2023, sheannounced her divorcefrom her husband of 11 years, producer Kurt Iswarienko. On July 13, 2024,Doherty died at 53 years old. Jason Priestlyplayed Doherty's on-screen brother, Brandon Walsh, onBeverly Hills, 90210and reprised his role in the 2019 reboot series. The actor, however, has played lead roles on a few TV projects, including the Canadian seriesCall Me FitzandPrivate Eyes, and has directed a few episodes, too. The father of two has been married to Naomi Lowde since 2005. After playing the awkward David Silver onBeverly Hills, 90210, Brian Austin Green went on to film other projects includingDancing with the Stars,a few episodes ofThe Connersand 2022'sLast the Night. Green hasthree sonswith his ex-wifeMegan Foxand a son with exVanessa Marcil. The actor later began dating hisDWTSpartner,Sharna Burgess, in October 2020 and the pairwelcomed son Zaneon June 28, 2022. Burgess and Greengot engagedin September 2023. After rising to fame as Kelly Kapowski on NBC'sSaved by the Bellfrom 1989 to 1993,Tiffani Thiessenjoined the teen drama as mean girl Valerie Malone for nine seasons. The actress has been busy with other TV projects, includingWhite CollarandAlexa & Katie, and reprising her iconic role as Kelly on Peacock'sSaved by the Bellreboot. Thiessen is quitethe culinary expertthese days. Former host of the Cooking Channel'sDinner at Tiffani's, she previously told PEOPLE in 2017, "the kitchen is where I spend the most time." Now she works as the host of MTV's comedy food-related clip showDeliciousness. The actress shares two children with her husband since 2005, Brady Smith. After playing the privileged Steve Sanders, ifIan Zieringwasn't chain-sawing through storms of sea creatures alongsideTara ReidintheSharknadofranchise, he was proudly working as a Chippendales dancer. Beverly Hills, 90210costars Garth and Doherty evenpaid him a visitto one of his performances in 2013. "Judging by their reactions, I know they had a great time," he previously told PEOPLE about their mini-reunion, which was continued on the 2019BH90210reboot. Married toPlayboymodel Nikki Schieler from 1997 to 2002, Ziering remarried in 2010, tying the knot with Erin Ludwig, with whom he has two young daughters. However, Ludwigfiled for divorcein November 2019. After his run as the bad boy heartthrob Dylan McKay,Luke Perryreturned to teen TV with a recurring role as Archie's dad, Fred Andrews, on the CW'sArchiecomics adaptationRiverdale. The actor died at age 52 on March 4, 2019,five days after suffering a stroke. Prior to his death, hehadn't signed on to the90210reboot, though the showdid honor him. Gabrielle Carteris was the oldest West Beverly High alumna on this list, and she's continued to stand up against ageism in Hollywood. Carteris, who has done a lot of voice acting for video games and cartoons, wrote a 2016 guest column forTheHollywood Reporterin which she called for ages to be removed from casting sites like IMDb. "This problem exists for all performers, but most distinctly for women," the former SAG-AFTRA president wrote. She's been married for over three decades and has two daughters. Read the original article onPeople

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Where Is the “Beverly Hills, 90210” Cast Now? See the Stars 25 Years After the Show Ended

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Palm tree falls on a person at Cannes Film Festival

Palm tree falls on a person at Cannes Film Festival

CANNES, France (AP) — A palm tree fell on a man at theCannes Film Festivalwho was walking along the Croisette on Saturday in the seaside French town. Authorities sped through festivalgoers to tend to the person who laid injured and bleeding on the sidewalk. No information was immediately available on their condition. Representatives for the festival didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. The incident happened midday at the festival. Cannes, which runs until May 24, is about halfway through.

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Palm tree falls on a person at Cannes Film Festival

Palm tree falls on a person at Cannes Film Festival CANNES, France (AP) — A palm tree fell on a man at theCannes Film Festivalwho was walkin...

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'Confident' China touts poverty alleviation efforts amid trade war with the U.S.

'Confident' China touts poverty alleviation efforts amid trade war with the U.S.

MALIPO, China — The rural villages of Malipo are a world away from gleaming Chinese cities like Beijing and Shanghai, reached by narrow roads that sometimes skirt dangerously close to deep ravines. Schoolchildren eat simple breakfasts while squatting on sidewalks, and even a local official complained that the remote mountain villages lacked access to the latest 5G internet connection. But Chinese officials point to overall progress in this thickly forested, highly mountainous border region in southwestChinaas a reason for their "confidence" in the country's development model, and in its ability to weather any trade war with the United States. "We have full confidence and the capability to overcome all difficulties," Vice Foreign Minister Hua Chunying said last week during a government-sponsored trip to the rural county of Malipo in Yunnan province, on the border withVietnam. "As for what the United States is doing, we really don't want any kind of war, but if we have to face up to reality, then we have no fear at all," she told reporters at a middle school. "The ordinary people already feel the suffering from the tariff war, so I really hope the [U.S.] administration will come back to normal." Hua was speaking before theU.S. and China agreed to slash tariffs on each other's importsin what Beijing said showed the effectiveness ofits resistanceagainstPresident Donald Trump'stariff "bullying." She and other officials said Malipo, where 233,000 people are spread among several towns and hundreds of "village groups," is a model for China's poverty alleviation efforts in recent decades. Per capita disposable income in Malipo was $2,300 a year last year, compared with about $69 a year in 1992. But Beijing's professed confidence belies real concern about the work that remains to be done as well as the potential impact of U.S. tariffs as China struggles withstructural imbalances and slowing economic growth. The situation spans China's urban-rural divide and is obvious even to residents of Malipo. "The economy is not that good," said Liu Huixin, a vendor selling processed fruits and other products from Vietnam and Thailand at a market. "Look at many shops around, people are not buying," he said. Ending "absolute poverty" — a goal that Chinese PresidentXi Jinpingsaid was officially achieved at the end of 2020 — is considered essential for reducing income inequality in the world's second-biggest economy as it strives to catch up with the United States. More than 450 million of China's 1.4 billion people live in rural areas, and getting them to spend more on consumer products is crucial as China tries to reduce its economic dependence on exports threatened by tariffs. China has also touted its "poverty alleviation" program as a model for developing countries in the Global South that face similar challenges. "The experience of Malipo in poverty alleviation has global significance," said Liu Guiqing, 40, a senior Chinese diplomat who is also county vice mayor of Malipo under a program that partners central government ministries and wealthy provinces and institutions with impoverished areas. Hua said the strength of China's system is its ability to "concentrate resources" on people's urgent needs. Beijing is thought to have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on poverty alleviation since 2015. China's approach to reducing inequality combines "coercive top-down control" with high social spending in an effort to "highlight the perceived failures of liberal free-market capitalism," Rana Mitter, a historian and political scientist at the Harvard Kennedy School, wrote in anew Foreign Affairs article. Programs such as the one in Malipo are "an increasingly important part of China's messaging, that it has development solutions for rural as well as urban areas," Mitter told NBC News. "This is likely to be particularly attractive in the many Global South countries that still have large agricultural sectors and may look to Chinese examples to find ways to modernize their own rural area," he said. Companies investing in Malipo are still motivated by the "invisible hand of the market forces," said Jason Choi, director of the Sunwah Group, a Hong Kong-based conglomerate. He said the improved infrastructure and government support were important factors in the decision by his family's company to invest about $7 million in a modern tea factory in Malipo, as well as the branding potential associated with Malipo's ancient tea trees. "We have created employment directly for more than a hundred people, and for some 10,000 people downstream and upstream," said Choi, 25. In nearby Jinping, another county targeted for poverty alleviation, Colorful Group, a company based in the Chinese technology hub of Shenzhen that specializes in graphics cards used in video games, has invested some $15 million in a smart agriculture company and other ventures, creating production jobs for more than 200 people, and for many more engaged in contract farming. Its corn products are sold in China at Walmart's Sam's Club, 7-Eleven shops and on the e-commerce platform JD.com, in addition to being exported to Southeast Asia and elsewhere. Asked about the impact of the U.S.-China trade war, Malipo Mayor Xiao Changju pointed to the rapid development prospects of border trade with Vietnam and other Southeast Asian nations. He also echoed a line frequently used by Chinese officials, saying: "We don't like to fight a trade war, but we are not afraid of one."

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'Confident' China touts poverty alleviation efforts amid trade war with the U.S.

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Ocean patrols and narcotics playbooks: How a Florida city is tackling human smuggling

Ocean patrols and narcotics playbooks: How a Florida city is tackling human smuggling

A human smuggler tells a potential customer in an audio message in Mandarin that there are now two potential sea routes for illegally entering the U.S. One is to depart by boat near the U.S.-Mexico border and then come ashore near Los Angeles. The second departs Nassau in the Bahamas by boat for the Miami area. The smuggler says in the audio, obtained by NBC News from a potential smuggling customer, that enforcement off the coast of Florida has increased, but quickly reassures the potential customer, "You won't get caught." Not so, authorities say. Out on a labyrinth of canals in Coral Gables, Florida, police are on the lookout for fishermen who might be spotters or boats carrying more weight than normal. Officials have been on heightened alert because the city's mangrove-shrouded waterways have become a landing destination for groups of Chinese migrants seeking illegal entry into the United States. With the southern border a less viable option, these migrants have found Florida via the Bahamas to be a workaround. But authorities have been cracking down and are seeing a decrease in smuggling attempts over the last few months. The number of Chinese nationals apprehended by Florida-based Customs and Border Patrol officers has climbed and dipped in recent years — 406 in 2020, 616 the year after, then 483 in 2024. But there have been no known smuggling attempts in the Coral Gables area since late January of this year. Local law enforcement officials admit they aren't sure if that's due to increased enforcement, Trump's policies that have had a similar impact on border crossings — or if smugglers have simply gotten more sophisticated. "We believe we have kind of a handle on our side," said Coral Gables Police Chief Edward J. Hudak. "[But] where is it going to go next? [Smuggling] is like water. Water is going to go wherever it can go." The drop comes aftertwo high-profile human smuggling incidentsin the affluent city and another just off shore since the start of the year have resulted in the apprehension of nearly 50 Chinese migrants. Another incident appears to have occured on Dec. 19, 2024, almost a full month before Coral Gables police made their first human smuggling stop. Surveillance footage obtained by NBC News from a neighbor's door camera shows a group of 18 Asian migrants walking into a waiting U-Haul van parked next to a waterway, as dozens of vehicles drive by. No police are seen, and there's no record of the apparent migrants or alleged smuggler ever being apprehended. Overall, encounters at the southwest border are down 93% compared to this time last year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and smugglers have pivoted to sea routes off the coasts of California and Florida, experts tell NBC News. More than35,000 Chinese migrants crossed the southern border in 2023, but crossings have dropped due to stricter enforcement. Last year, apprehensions of Chinese nationals at the border reached arecord high. The Bahamas has quickly become a strategic departure point for many of these migrants coming ashore in Florida due to that country's lifting of visa restrictions for Chinese citizens. "These human smugglers are being more creative," said Leland Lazarus, the associate director of national security at Florida International University's Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy. "They see one route dropping off in the southwest border, and they're trying maritime routes more frequently." Police say it's a challenge to patrol the intricate waterways that snake through Coral Gables as well as the yawning stretch of ocean just outside, but they do have a past playbook. The area has been a smuggling hot spot for decades, first for drugs and now, it appears, for humans. "We've just dusted off our playbook from the 1980s and 1990s, when the smugglers were bringing in narco narcotics," said Hudak. "But this is human cargo now, so that's really changed the game for us." Hudak says the sea-lanes used by human smugglers now are the same ones used for drugs previously. And the smugglers' knack for evolving and evading authorities also appears unchanged. "There are ingenious ways to get narcotics into this country, and there are ingenious ways to get human beings into this country," said Hudak. Further communication between the smuggler and his potential customer offers a glimpse at how some criminals may be managing to stay one step ahead of authorities. Rather than using the traditional panga boats or speedboats to ferry migrants across seas, the smuggler says he's now using yachts. "Small boats will get in trouble," he writes to the potential customer in Mandarin. "The big boat won't draw as much attention." Included in his message was a four-second clip of a docked yacht. The price for the journey, including use of the luxury vessel, was $35,000. Law enforcement and some residents tell NBC News the human smuggling busts in Coral Gables weren't isolated incidents, and they believe many more migrants have been smuggled into the area without detection. "This was not a first time on either one of these," Hudak said, referring to the two smuggling operations. "People have seen things in the past and didn't say anything."

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Ocean patrols and narcotics playbooks: How a Florida city is tackling human smuggling

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