- Huge spoilers of The last of us Season 2, episode 2 here
- No, in reality, there will be no remains of the huge events of that episode.
- But we will not spoil anything about the future of the game, it’s just television here
Well, it’s here. The last of us‘Television spectators in Max have reached the overwhelming and second act of the story that those who played have been fearing.
At the end of the second episode, Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) comes from the death of his father and brutally kills Joel (Pedro Pascal) in front of Ellie (Bella Ramsey), who can do nothing more than cry and beg the anguish and in vain.
With the confirmation that a third season is on its way, there have been great implications that the history of the second game would be divided into the seasons, and assumed that they could adjust the order of the narration to push Joel’s death at the end of the second season.
But no, here we are, looking today through a panorama of publications in social networks and reviews of people who are, among other emotions, crushed, furious, confusing and impressed.
I have to start the publication in X of @Scarjsn to which I referred to the headline, saying “Ellie hugging Joel’s body only ruined my week, month and year” because that seems to have achieved the goal for many people, just like this publication.
I don’t know if there is something I can do to recover emotionally at this time. #Thelastafusseason2 pic.twitter.com/bisjisennjApril 21, 2025
The moment has hit people in different ways. You have to say, Pedro Pascal of everything. There is a fairly important part of the world whose attachment is to have this extremely charming and beautiful star in the center of the show, especially given its adorable real -life relationship with Bella Ramsey. A lot of people are devastated to lose it as much as the character.
But surely there is a lot of love for the character that is expressed in the sadness and anger of people. Some forms are needed, including people who take what they could call a bittersweet approach, observing how we could see the best parts of their character in the final stretch of his life …
Joel could not save his daughter, so he protected every damn teenager until he killed him #Thelastofus pic.twitter.com/swoqvsbfApril 21, 2025
… And, on the other hand, we have burning people with a white and impregnable fury in Abby’s actions.
Add it to my list of the 10 most hated television characters. And they have only been two episodes. Idgaf what your reason was. I hate this mf’er with passion and I hope you eat pavement (the great actress, as congratulations). #Thelastofus #tlou pic.twitter.com/vqvgrkystvApril 21, 2025
In today’s world, where people seem more and more that they are not willing to maintain the real world and fiction separately, the Tlou and Max team seem to have prepared a lot of social content of all in the program that spends, having a good time and, in general, loving a lot.
It is a slightly sad fact that the publication after Pascal was clearly necessary, and that the reason behind this was noticed instantly, with a Reddit pointing out “the fact that Pedro published this photo after episode 2 so that his fans would not hate it”, while the Daily Beast Beast described him as Pascal ‘armor of the fanatics. (When the game came out, the actress who portrayed Abby received an avalanche of abusive messages and death threats).
The representation of Bella Ramsey of Ellie throughout the episode has attracted many praise, not only because of the great climax (which we will come), but more widely for how subtle and honestly portray the mixed feelings that come after the dance.
That is helped by the program that is filled with a subtle wink to its link that goes beyond the external actions or words (pay close attention to the guitar …), but also in the delivery of Ramsey of the line below (complete or dramatic irony).
“I’m still, he is still Joel and we … nothing is going to change. ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜#Thelastafus pic.twitter.com/d5zblgzlgoApril 21, 2025
There are other changes in Ramsey’s physicality that denote deep changes in Ellie’s core. “It looks in some older way in the space of an episode and, as a genuine demon who hopes to be unleashed,” says this Reddit thread of a user who says any concern about Ramsey who played the largest ellie of season 2 had been eliminated.
Of course, the subtlety in the delivery through the window when Ellie is injured, trapped defenseless on the floor and forced to see the person who loves the most is horrible.
Ramsey goes through so many ways in those scenes, and is physically destroyed by his anguish as it sounds. The nuclear fury, the painful realization, the cruel half savings and the end.
Bella Ramsey, the Emmy is yours pic.twitter.com/7ufqgeqhhApril 21, 2025
The interesting question is how well the audience in general answers The last of us‘Great change. Obviously, that will depend in part on what really comes next, and I will not get into anything from the game here.
But it is a great risk: this moment is so cruel to so many characters, and it is possible that he goes to a dark show. also Dark in the eyes of its spectators. That is the question raised by The Guardian, who asks “will this program survive that horrible death?” The writer Graeme Virtue adds: “I could also call that brave end, or even silly … by killing Joel in such a wild way and traumatizing Ellie even more, surely runs the risk of pushing history too much to desolation.”
Collider has an interesting version of the unwavering brutality of everything: “We like it or not, we needed to see [Joel die] in ‘The Last of Us’ Season 2 “.
“Some spectators may have thought it was too much, but, unfortunately, the representation of Joel’s death is a necessary plot point of this adaptation of The last of usAnd it’s not about violence and free blood, “writes Julio Bardini.” On the other hand, it is about being faithful to one of the most important unpatient rules of the narration: If someone dies, you have to show a body. “
Bardini points out that permanent death has become difficult to believe in the era of the revival of inherited sequels or the long -term franchises that simply need to put people in their seats, and the return of a favorite of fans is an easy way to do so. If you want people to feel the devastation that Tlou The spectators are feeling at this time, they must make it clear that there is no ambiguity in this regard.
It is fair to say that the program achieved that, and now we are what Esquire has called “beyond the point of no return.” As Brady Langmann says: “This show belongs to Bella Ramsey now.”
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