The Last of Us season 2 premiere has Us wondering why Ellie (Bella Ramsey) is so mad at Joel (Pedro Pascal) — and what’s going to occur when Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) involves town.
The highly anticipated second season of HBO’s hit series premiered on Sunday, April 13, with an emotionally-charged episode that raised some major questions from viewers.
Spoilers for The Last of Us season 2 premiere below.
The episode kicked off with a transient flashback to the tip of season 1. Viewers, once more, got to see the moment Joel swore to Ellie that he wasn’t lying concerning the Fireflies and cordyceps cure. (Friendly reminder: he was, in reality, lying.)
Manny (Danny Ramirez) speaks the primary words of season two asking: “Why would he do that?” It’s quickly revealed that he was asking about Joel as Nora (Tati Gabrielle) responds to his query.
She starts to say, “I heard rumors about some kid he took that was supposedly—” until Mel (Ariela Barer) cuts her off saying that the rumors weren’t true. The conversation is held in a makeshift Fireflies graveyard, which seemingly consists of all of the bodies Joel put down in the course of the hospital massacre within the season 1 finale.
Abby tells the group that their next mission is “finding” Joel. “None of that is f***ing fair,” she says. Owen (Spencer Lord) convinces Abby to travel to Seattle to seek out someone named Isaac (Jeffrey Wright) so that they can assist with the hunt for Joel.
“Once we kill him, we kill him slowly,” Abby says.
After the title sequence rolls, The Last of Us season 2 makes a five-year time jump.
Ellie, now 19, is perfecting her combat skills — literally — with a mini-fight club in Jackson, Wyoming, run by latest friend Jesse (Young Mazino). Joel, meanwhile, is running Jackson’s construction crew, which incorporates Ellie’s best friend Dina (Isabela Merced). Under the pretense of asking Joel for help, Dina reveals tension between him and Ellie.
“Can I ask an issue?” Dina says. “Why is she offended at you?”
Joel replies, “She said she was offended?”
Joel, shaking it off, chalks Ellie’s mood as much as “normal” teenager behavior — mentioning his late daughter, Sarah, introducing a brand new and improved Joel Miller. Dina also drops the news that Joel is in therapy.
Ellie, roughly unhinged, is shooting Infected any probability she gets despite Joel’s protests to take her off patrols. Tommy (Gabriel Luna) has no alternative but to side with Ellie, although that’s not what his older brother wants.
It seems Joel’s relationship along with his sister-in-law Maria (Rutina Wesley) has blossomed because the two are working together on an expansion plan for Jackson. The softer side — some might even say the daddy side — of Joel really comes out when he’s with nephew Benjamin as well.
Viewers also get an inside have a look at his aforementioned therapy sessions with Gail (Catherine O’Hara), who’s drunk and knows that Joel “shot and killed” her husband. (He pays for sessions in marijuana.)
HBO has officially renewed The Last of Us for yet one more season ahead of the show’s highly-anticipated season 2 premiere. Multiple outlets confirmed the news on Wednesday, April 9, together with a press release from the show’s cocreator Craig Mazin. “We approached season 2 with the goal of making something we could possibly be pleased with,” Mazin, […]
The character of their sessions surround Joel’s issues with Ellie, but Gail roughly declares that they’re not getting anywhere since he’s “lying” to her.
“Say the thing you’re afraid to say,” she coaxes him. “Did you do something to her?”
Joel replies, “I saved her.”
Elsewhere in Jackson, Ellie and Dina head out on patrol and (shocker) don’t do what they’re told. For this reason, Ellie comes face-to-face with an evolving breed of Infected — the Stalker. She gets bit again, and for those counting, that will be three bites for Ellie, our immune queen.
After the thrill of damn-near dying — again — Dina invites Ellie to the Jackson Latest 12 months’s Eve celebration. While on the party, Dina and Ellie share a kiss and promptly get called a slur by one other Jackson resident. When Joel steps in to guard Ellie, it’s revealed how deep their issues actually are.
“What’s flawed with you?” she asks. “I don’t need your f***ing help.”
The episode involves an end with two major hints to what’s coming. The primary, a live cordyceps tendril is flourishing in Jackson’s pipe system. The second, Abby and her crew look like on the best way.
Latest episodes of The Last of Us premieres on HBO Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.
