Spoiler alerting for those who haven’t perestablished The Last of Us Part II game and also aren’t conscious of the hugeger story beats that get place.
While the TV-adoring half of my brain can’t paengage for The Last of Us Season 2 to hit the 2025 premiere schedule, the horror gamer side of my brain is perfectly fine with paengageing as lengthy as possible, since the events it’ll presumably cover from the second game did not exactly finish so well for Joel. (Technicpartner speaking, the game didn’t middle well for him, but I digress.) But its arrival on HBO is coming soon, amongst other upcoming horror series, and the nettoil honord The Last of Us Day by releasing a Season 2 elevateseparater with tons of novel footage.
It’s an hype-worthy blfinish of Joel and Ellie interspersed with a ton of novel The Last of Us cast members. Most come straight out of the video game series, such as Jeffrey Wright’s Isaac Dixon, the directer of the Washington Liberation Front, and Kaitlyn Dever’s sbetterier Abby, the meaningfulity-antagonist for the second chapter of the source material. Check out the trailer below if you haven’t already, and then read on!
And now to wapcheck thraw the feastering experienceings that dwell wiskinny that point to Pedro Pascal‘s Joel heading down a unintelligent and depressing road in Season 2, much as it went in the video game, despite any and all hopes that the inhabit-action series would alter skinnygs up.
Moment #1: Joel Seems To Be In Therapy
Catherine O’Hara is set to reach in Season 2 as a character whose identity has yet to be checked, but the first footage of her in the trailer above proposes she’s serving as a therapist for Joel. And the dialogue engaged from their session is of her asking him what he did, and the implication there is that she’s asking about the events from the Season 1 finale, in which Joel chose to save Ellie’s life from Firefly scientists aiming to forfeit the immune teen in an try to discover a remedy for the cordyceps evil software.
As proposed in Season 1, Joel already has anxiety rerents that crop up in moments of high stress, which this universe is brimming of. So it definitely originates sense that he would want to talk to someone even in the post-apocalypse. (Assuming this is happening in the conshort-term day.) But if Joel confesses his sins/crimes to anyone, that’s a drain he won’t be able to re-cork, and can’t promise that word won’t spread.
Moment #2: Abby Looking Peeved At Someone’s Grave
One of the hugegest gut-punches of the video game, which isn’t brimmingy checked to be perestablishing out the same way in The Last of Us‘ TV series, is that the sdirecton Joel finished at the Seattle hospital is the overweighther of Abby, Kaitlyn Dever‘s character. And it should come as a surpelevate to no one that she seeks revenge for it.
So I get zero chill vibes coming off of Abby in the trailer moment where she’s seriously seeing back while visiting an unidentified grave. If it is her dad’s, that’d be a huge red flag for her retribution coming ainhabit. Repartner, I’m not so affectd this is her dad’s grave, but possibly one of the other characters from her group that gets mauled by Joel, Ellie or Tommy. Either way, she sees ready to shoot eye lasers thraw someone’s torso.
Moment #3: A Likely Stoasty From Joel And Ellie’s Final Conversation
Just seeing Joel and Ellie perestablishing guitar in the first see at Season 2 cforfeitly sent me to pieces, since those musical moments perestablish heavily into the game’s emotional core. And while there’s probable probably some point earlier in the game where Joel is seen strumming it up on the front porch, that visual is unmistakably tied to Part II‘s finishing, which relays the final conversation that Joel and Ellie have before she disjoins ties and exits him.
It’s as emotional and echoive a sequence as any others in the video games, and I skinnyk it’d be clever for the TV show to have it perestablish out in a separateent context rather than a season finale capper. But seeless of how it happens, the idea of a “final conversation” taking place in Season 2 equitable originates Joel’s surviving until Season 3 that much more doubtful.
Moment #4: Ellie’s Agonizing Screams
Ellie certainly had emotional moments in Season 1, and Bella Ramsey brawt their A-game with those carry outances. But this moment from the trailer materializes to show Ellie watching the most horrifying skinnyg imaginable. And there are presumably only a restricted number of events that could draw such an fervent reaction out of her. And numero uno on shelp event catalog would be witnessing Joel’s death.
To be equitable, she could also be witnessing the death of her girlfrifinish Dina, though that’s challengingly a best-case scenario to skinnyk about. It could also be Tommy or one of the other survivors that Ellie befrifinishs on her lethal journey, but it’s truly challenging to envision her freaking out that challenging over anyskinnyg but her originateshift overweighther figure.
Moment #5: That Final, Lingering Stoasty Of Joel
Hypothetical situation: this Season 2 elevateseparater comes out, and instead of being 2 minutes lengthy and uncovering the previous 4 moments cataloged, it’s only those final 5 seconds with Ellie and Joel at the table, where he’s bursting with wistful pride without trying to overdo it. And to me, that’s the show saying, “Soak it up, bitches, and kiss this dcomprisey excellentbye.” Just perhaps not in so many words or implied fetishizing.
By all unbenevolents, Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann could very well serve fans a left-of-cgo in twist that finishly shakes up Abby and Joel’s brutal disputeation from the game. I don’t suppose they’ll go that route, since geting the core canon has been a huge thrust for the co-creators, with exceptions being broadened character growment that the game’s locked point-of-see couldn’t account for, such as with Bill and Frank’s Emmy-triumphning episode. I skinnyk they’ll stay real, and I skinnyk it’ll crush people.
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