Here's The Alberta Filming Locations For Episode 5 of 'The Last Of Us' (PHOTOS)
The sets are wild!

Calgary in The Last Of Us. Right: A huge set built for The Last Of Us episode five.
Episode five of The Last Of Us once again featured tons of recognizable filming locations in Alberta.
The fifth episode – "Endure and Survive" – of the hit HBO series was largely filmed in Calgary once again, using a combination of locations downtown and huge purpose-built sets.
In this episode, Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) are looking to escape Kansas City without drawing more attention to themselves by resistance forces in the city, led by Yellowjackets star Melanie Lynskey.
As always, there may be spoilers ahead so if you haven't seen the episode, you've been warned!
Centennial Place
Centennial Place in Calgary.
Centennial Place, which is right in the heart of Downtown Calgary, was transformed to look like a disused bank in Kansas City.
Last year, Pascal, Ramsey, Lamar Johnson and Keivonn Woodard, who play Henry and Sam, were spotted filming scenes on the street outside. The group enters into the bank to access underground tunnels that will take them out of the city.
Calgary Courts Centre
Calgary Courts Centre.
The fifth episode jumps back in time by a few days in Kansas City, showing how resistance forces violently overthrew the FEDRA (the Federal Disaster Response Agency). The outside of the Calgary Courts Centre was used as the backdrop for this scene.
Kansas City cul-de-sac
\u201c#TLOU ep5 BTS pt1: \nOur biggest set-piece required a huge cul-de-sac with 16 houses, fully controllable at night and with privacy to shoot, so we built it: \n1) Back-lot site\n2) Road and foundations beginning to take shape\n3) On-site with scale model \n4) Final build with stand-ins\u201d— Eben Bolter BSC (@Eben Bolter BSC) 1676197446
Cinematographer for the episode, Eben Bolter shared some behind-the-scenes shots of a huge set which was built for one of the most dramatic sequences in the episode.
A huge back lot on 76 Avenue S.E. near the Calgary Film Centre was transformed into a cul-de-sac in Kansas City, complete with 16 houses. You'd hardly be able to tell it's a set.
In a podcast interview, Craig Mazin, the showrunner for The Last Of Us, said the scene was "a massive undertaking" as it wouldn't work on an actual existing street.
"We needed to control it completely. We needed to be able to do gunfire. We needed to be able to do burns. We needed to do an explosion of a truck. We needed hundreds of extras running around, backlit by fire, lots of stunts, motor vehicles, racing and driving and all of this and it needs to be lit," he explained.
Ranchland Inn
The Ranchland Inn in Nanton.
Once Joel, Ellie, Henry and Sam manage to escape Kansas City, they end up in an abandoned motel and despite thinking the group would be safe from this point on, sadly that's not quite the scenario.
The heartbreaking scenes were filmed around Ranchland Inn in Nanton.
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