Two years ago, the first season of The last of us He became a great success for HBO, was the apocalyptic drama and made it very personal, either through the journey of Joel de Pedro Pacal and Ellie de Bella Ramsey or the intensely intimate episode starring Nick Offerman and Murray. The second season takes place five years after the events of the final of the first season, which Joel has not yet told Ellie.
The last of us Season 2: Transmit it or omit it?
Opening shot: We start with the last scene of season 1, with Ellie Williams (Bella Ramsey) telling Joel Miller (Pedro Pascal), “I swear that everything you said about the firefly is true.” Joel is not at all a real answer is: “I swear.” “It’s fine,” he says, and begins to walk downhill towards Jackson.
The yeast: Meanwhile, in Salt Lake City, a group of fireflies is sharing a park with some wild giraffes, crying to their fallen comrades. One of them, Abby Anderson (Kaitlyn Dever) is determined to find Joel and take revenge on what he did to rescue Ellie.
Five years later, the community in Jackson, Wyoming, is strengthening. Ellie is training under Jessie’s tutelage (Young Mazino), who leads the patrol that helps protect the walled community of people infected with the cordyceps fungus. Joel is leading the efforts so that the city’s infrastructure is built, but things like pipes infiltrated at the root are slowing things. The city leader, Maria Miller (Routina Wesley), who is also married to Joel’s brother, Tommy (Gabriel Luna).
Another thing that concerns Joel is that Ellie, now 19, is freezing him. He says so much to Ellie Dina’s best friend (Isabela Merced), who is often registered to see how Joel is. When Joel is going to see Gail (Catherine or but knows that something deeper is happening with Joel, and thinks that he admits some or his own dark thoughts, he could also do it.
Ellie and Dina go out to the recognition patrol, after Ellie convinces Tommy not to leave her in the patrol of the fence. Despite the instructions of the patrol leader, Lisa (Noah Lamanna), so as not to commit to infected people unless necessary, Ellie and Dina go to an abandoned supermarket and eliminate a couple of them. But when Ellie falls through the upper floor office to the store, she meets an infected person who had never seen before.
What programs will you remember? Increasingly, The last of usAdapted to the success of Craig Mazzin and Neil Druckmann video game (Mazzin wrote and directed the first episode), he feels like The Living DeadComplete with walled communities that try to establish some normality in a post-apocalyptic crazy world.
OUR TOMA: The second season of The last of us It begins as how Joel and Ellie are integrated into the community in Jackson and how it will defend ITELF against the fungus. Ellie’s immunity remains a problem, although at this time she only takes to the audience when an infected bite her. Will your immunity become a driving force in the season as it was for season 1? Only time will say it.
What the season really feels to be discussed is Joel dealing with the external and internal consequences of his actions in Salt Lake City. He has killed many people, and not only people surpassed by the fungus; The counting of the body that inflicted on rescuing Ellie from a certain death at the hands of the fireflies was really tall, and has been lying to Ellie and everyone else during the last five years about the destruction she captivated. As we can see in his session with Gail, that’s eating it inside, but he knows he can’t say anything.
Speaking of Gail, or in the scenes of letters in the first episode, we get all its ability to mix humor with anger, comedy with drama. It is not that Gail is a laughter; As most people who are present before the fungus kill most of humanity, is mostly sad and alone, and O’Hara pushes that sadness with its usual light touch. With luck, we will see more of its duration in the season.
This season could also be a stage of the age of majority for Ellie. Yes, she is moving away from Joel, but that could be because she feels that he is containing what happened in Salt Lake City, and that makes her trust him less. But we also see the New Year’s party that Dina seeks to be more than Ellie’s friend. While Ellie is quite safe with her sexuality, this is the first time she will enter a real relationship. The way that affects your choices will be interesting to see.
Sex and skin: Nothing in the first episode.
Separation shot: The last scene is a great spoiler, so we cannot mention it.
Star Star: As mentioned above, every time Catherine O’Hara is on our screen, we pay attention.
The majority of the pilot line: None that we could find.
Our call: Transmit it. While the first episode of the second season of The last of us It shows us what an established group of uninfected humans looks like, there are problems to elaborate in different ways, which should be the action this season.
Joel Keller (@joelkeller) Write about food, entertainment, parenting and technology, but he is not necessary: he is a television addict. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Salon, Rollingstone.com” Vanityfair.comFast Company and other places.