The internet is celebrating Pedro Pascal’s on-screen children in the wake of ‘The Mandalorian’ season three

While the season of Pedro Pascal dawned with the debut of HBO’s The Last of Us back in January, it has now reached its pinnacle. For the next two weeks, the star is leading new episodes of two of television’s hottest series, now that season three of The Mandalorian has debuted on Disney Plus. 

While Pedro Pascal’s mere presence is a common denominator across the two shows, so are both of his character’s penchants for protecting and escorting (and eventually becoming a father figure for) some very important children. We’ve got Ellie in The Last of Us, the only known person immune to the show’s world-ending infection, and we’ve got Grogu, a powerful force-sensitive child in a post-Empire world. 

As such, and lining up with the release of The Mandalorian season three, Twitter has become something of a Father’s Day appreciation board, but specifically for Pedro Pascal:

For some time now, in no small part thanks to the roles he has been playing in recent memory, Pedro Pascal is being dubbed as a “daddy” of television and the internet at large in all corners of the world, but the man has been sending mixed messages of late as to how exactly he feels about the moniker. 

Regardless of whether he is daddy to you, or you love him, hate him (how dare you), or are entirely indifferent to him, his presence on television as of right now is nigh unavoidable. You can catch him as Din Djarrin in new episodes of The Mandalorian every Wednesday on Disney Plus, and as Joel on The Last of Us for the next two Sundays on HBO Max.