- Huge spoilers for The last of us Season 2, episode 2 here
- No really, there will be no prohibited sockets on the huge events of this episode
- But we won’t spoil anything about the future of the game – it’s only television here
Well, it’s here. The last of us“The viewers on Max have caught up the crushing pavement of the second act of history that those who played the game fear.
At the end of the second episode, Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) takes revenge for the death of his father and brutally kills Joel (Pedro Pascal) before Ellie (Bella Ramsey), who can do nothing other than cry and plead in anxiety, and in vain.
With the confirmation that a third season is on the way, there was a strong involvement that the story of the second match would be divided during the seasons, and I assumed that they could modify the order of the story to push the death of Joel until the end of the second season.
But no, here we are, looking today in a landscape of publications on social networks and criticism of people who – among other emotions – crushed, furious, confused and impressed.
I must start with the post on @scarjsn x that I referenced in the title, saying that “Ellie hugging Joel’s body simply ruined all my week, my month and my year” because it seems to have reached the target for many people, just like this post.
I don’t know if there is something I can never do to recover emotionally from that moment. # Thelastofusonason2 pic.twitter.com/bisjisenjApril 21, 2025
The moment struck people in different ways. There is, it must be said, the Pedro Pascal of all this. There is a fairly large part of the world whose attachment is to have this extremely charming and beautiful star at the center of the show – in particular given its adorable real relationships with Bella Ramsey. A large number of people are devastated to lose it as much as the character.
But it is certain that there is a huge amount of love for the character expressed in the sadness and anger of people. It takes a few forms, including people who take what you could call a bit bittersness approach, looking at how we could see the best parts of his character in the last section of his life …
Joel could not save his daughter, so he protected each fucking teenager until she kills him #thelastofus pic.twitter.com/swoqvsbfhaApril 21, 2025
… And on the other hand, we have people who burn with a hot and unassailable white fury to the actions of Abby.
Adding to my list of the most hated top 10 television characters. And these are only two episodes. Idgaf what was his reason. I hate this MF’ER with a passion and I hope she eats a sidewalk (the brilliant actress, like congratulations for her). #Thelastofus #tlou pic.twitter.com/vqvgystvApril 21, 2025
In the present world where people seem to be more and more unable to keep the real world and separate fiction, the Tlou and Max team seem to have prepared a lot of social content from everyone on the showing show, have a good time and generally love each other a lot.
It is a little sad fact that Pascal’s post below was clearly necessary, and that the reason behind it was instantly perceptible, with a reddit noting “the fact that Pedro posted this photo after episode 2 so that its fans does not hate it”, while the daily beast described it as Pascal `Blinding ” Dever fans. (When the match was released, the actress who portrayed Abby has received a long -standing flow from abusive messages and death threats.)
The representation of Bella Ramsey of Ellie throughout the episode attracted a lot of praise, not only for the big culminating point (to which we will come), but more broadly for the way in which they subtly and honestly portray the mixed feelings that come the day after the dance.
This is helped by the spectacle that fills up with subtle heads to their link going beyond external actions or words (pay particular attention to the guitar …), but also in the delivery by Ramsey of the line below (complete or dramatic irony as can be).
“I’m still me, he’s still Joel and we … nothing will change.” Never. ” 😭😭😭 # Thelastofus pic.twitter.com/d5zblgzlApril 21, 2025
There are other changes in Ramsey’s physics which indicate deep changes in Ellie’s heart. “It looks in one way or another older in the space of an episode and as a real demon waiting to be unleashed,” explains this Reddit wire of a user saying that Ramsey playing the old Ellie of season 2 had been eliminated.
Of course, the subtlety in the delivery by the window when Ellie is injured, helpless trapped on the ground and forced to look at the person she likes the most horrible.
Ramsey goes through so many modes in these scenes and looks also physically destroyed by her anxiety as she sounds. The nuclear fury, the painful realization, the cruel half-hop and the end.
Bella Ramsey, The Emmy is at you pic.twitter.com/7ufqgeqhqhApril 21, 2025
The interesting question is how the number of viewers in general responds The last of us“Big change. Obviously, it will partly depend on what really comes, and I am not doing anything about the game here.
But it’s a big risk – this moment is so cruel for so many characters, and it is possible for a dark show Also Dark in the eyes of his viewers. This is the question raised by the Guardian, who asks “will this show survive this horrible death?”. The Virtue Graeme writer adds: “You could also call it brave, or even stupid … by killing Joel in such a wild way, and by traumatic more Ellie, you risk pushing history too far into gloom.”
Collider has an interesting vision of flawless brutality [Joel die] In “The Last of Us” season 2 “.
“Some viewers may have thought it was too much, but, unfortunately, the representation of Joel’s death is a necessary plot of this adaptation of The last of usAnd these are not free violence and gore, “writes Julio Bardini.” Instead, it is a question of being faithful to one of the most important tacit narration rules: If someone dies, you should show a body. “”
Bardini notes that permanent death has become difficult to believe in the era inherited renewals or longtime franchises which simply need to put people in their place, 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 Viewers feel right now, you should specify that there is no ambiguity on this subject.
It is fair to say that the show has done there, and now we are in what Esquire called “passing the point of no return”. As Brady Langmann says: “This show belongs to Bella Ramsey now.”
