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The Last Of Us Episode 9 Recap: A Powerful, Haunting Finale
13.3.2023
Well, friends. We’ve come to the end of the road, at least for now. Episode nine of HBO’s The Last of Us is the season finale, bringing us to the end of the story told in the first game. Even the episode’s title, “Look for the Light,” neatly closes the loop opened by that of the first episode...
The Last Of Us Show Tries To Change What The Game Told Us About Joel
13.3.2023
[The following will contain spoilers for The Last of Us show and both video games]Read more
Revisiting The Last Of Us Game's Haunting Ending Before The Show's Finale
11.3.2023
10 years ago, The Last of Us’ unexpected and morally divisive ending made history. Choosing to land in a place of uncertainty, the conclusion bucked what many other games chose to do, and often still do: present a straightforward, neat, conventionally satisfying end where the good guys are the good...
The Last of Us Show Destroyed Everyone With Two Words: Baby Girl
7.3.2023
The latest episode of HBO’s The Last of Us is full of standout scenes. While episode 8 “When We Are In Need” is full of tension, drama, and even a bit more action than the show typically gets into, the moment that has viewers in a chokehold right now is one of its quietest: when Pedro Pascal’s Joel...
The Last Of Us Show Mercifully Leaves Out A Famous, Devastating Game Death
7.3.2023
The Last of Us show had a pretty gruesome episode this week. The Winter section has long been regarded as the original game’s darkest section, reckoning with its most villainous figures and horrifying realities of the post-apocalypse. Because of that, it’s perhaps merciful on the showrunner’s part...
The Last Of Us Episode 8 Recap: Joel And Ellie's Most Desperate Hour
6.3.2023
With just one episode to go, we’re nearing the end of Joel and Ellie’s long journey together. This week’s entry, “When We Are in Need,” corresponds with the game’s winter section, though the HBO adaptation isn’t using the same seasonal structure of the game, and here in TV land, it’s been winter...
The Last Of Us Show Makes Its Most Horrific Character More Horrifying
6.3.2023
When I finished The Last of Us’ eighth episode “When We Are in Need,” which recounts the events of the game’s winter section, I had to go take a walk. I thought I was emotionally prepared to see a live-action version of the source material’s darkest moments, but I was once again surprised by...
Not Everyone Got To See The Last of Us Show's Big Kiss
27.2.2023
Last night’s heartbreaking episode of The Last of Us featured a moment of hope and love where two characters kissed, cementing how they truly felt about each other. It was a key moment in the episode and was pulled directly from the source material. The kiss was also completely absent if you were...
The Last Of Us Episode 7 Recap: Just Like Heaven
27.2.2023
The release of The Last of Us in 2013 already marked a remarkable shift in narrative tone for big-budget, so-called “AAA” games. However, for some of us, 2014’s DLC chapter, The Last of Us: Left Behind, proved to be even more remarkable. It took mechanics that, in the game proper, had been used...
The Last Of Us Episode 7 Recap: Just Like Heaven
27.2.2023
The release of The Last of Us in 2013 already marked a remarkable shift in narrative tone for big-budget, so-called “AAA” games. However, for some of us, 2014’s DLC chapter, The Last of Us: Left Behind, proved to be even more remarkable. It took mechanics that, in the game proper, had been used...
Internet Says 'Same' After Seeing Joel In The Last Of Us Show Have Panic Attacks
22.2.2023
It ain’t easy traveling across the country with folks who don’t have it all together. With the burden of succumbing to brutal violence himself, witnessing harm against folks who don’t deserve it, and remembering the echoes of normal life, the TV version of Joel is revealing something we all knew...
The Last Of Us Fans Better Brace Themselves For The Left Behind Episode
21.2.2023
Every episode of HBO’s The Last of Us has had something emotionally devastating (some good and bad) to sit with, but episode seven, “Left Behind” is probably going to be one of the hardest to deal with of the show’s nine-episode run. That’s because, as the title suggests, it looks like we’re going...
The Last Of Us Show Fans Are Freaking Out About Dina Right Now
21.2.2023
A brief appearance of a girl curiously watching Ellie eat during this week’s episode of The Last of Us had fans of the games excited. And fans of just the show were likely left a little confused as to what all the fuss is about. If you’re here wondering who the hell this “Dina” the internet...
The Last Of Us Episode 6 Recap: Ellie The Goodbye Girl
20.2.2023
Last week’s episode of The Last of Us was perhaps the show at its most bleak and devastating. Thankfully, episode six, entitled “Kin,” offers us a bit of a tonal reprieve, with enough scenes of hope and possibility for life in the post-cordyceps world to remind us that it is still possible to carve...
Bella Ramsey Responds To The Last Of Us Gay Backlash: 'Get Used To It'
14.2.2023
The actress behind The Last of Us TV show’s Ellie has no time for the internet’s bullshit. Asked about a vocal minority of fans who take issue with the existence of gay and transgender character arcs in both TLOU Part II game and the HBO adaptation, Bella Ramsey said “they’re gonna have to get used...
HBO’s The Last Of Us Show Just Nailed One Of The Game’s Best Moments
11.2.2023
It seems I was too quick to judge HBO’s The Last of Us. While the first four episodes certainly kept my attention as well-written and delightfully-shot prestige television, I had been a little let down as the adaptive process of turning the game into a show has, so far, left out the recreation...
What Was That Giant Infected In The Last Of Us Episode 5?
11.2.2023
If you just finished watching episode five of HBO’s The Last of Us, you might be wondering just what that giant infected was that the show made a big deal about but didn’t actually bother to explain. Well friends, what you saw is colloquially called a bloater by characters like Joel and Ellie,...
The Last Of Us Episode 4 Recap: A Return To The Familiar
6.2.2023
After last week’s knockout episode of HBO’s The Last of Us boldly adapted the game’s source material into something wholly new and remarkable, this week’s episode returns to more conventional adaptation, giving viewers a number of moments lifted directly from the game, though the action has been...
Who Are Kathleen And Perry In HBO’s The Last Of Us?
6.2.2023
If you played The Last of Us game and are watching HBO’s TV adaptation, you probably saw a couple of characters in this week’s episode and wondered, “Who the hell are these people?” That’s because these characters weren’t in the original game, but there’s a reason you might have thought...
The Last Of Us Episode 3 Recap: The Ballad Of Bill And Frank
3.2.2023
“Paying attention to things—it’s how we show love!”Read more