[stevenwoo]

They constructed houses (and completely finishing at least the camera facing exteriors, then weathered them) for several blocks on an abandoned street for one scene in the episode where Joel has to take out the sniper (very similar to the game with different story beats) and this scene took three weeks to film for only about 10-15 minutes of screen time. The mall scene had some amazing detail for just background scenery, the faux shop signs looked authentic next to historic shops.