The Last of Us – When We Are in Need

The penultimate episode of The Last of Us’ first season delivered a tense and brutal Ellie outing, following up from the comparatively quiet seventh episode. It permits the present to spotlight the complete extent of Ramsey’s vary and he or she delivers the complete spectrum of worry and rage as she contends with cannibalistic preacher David and his flock.

One of my favorite issues about this present is that it would not maintain again on something and even in an episode with no single contaminated in sight, the stress is cranked as much as 100. It’s a superb change of tempo to see Ellie preventing to outlive alone after spending a lot of the season constructing a relationship and a mutual reliance with Joel. 

The entire present has been a brutal coming of age for Ellie and her struggle with David in a burning constructing is the climax of this entire journey she’s been on after leaving the relative shelter of getting grown up in a QZ all her life.

Joel will get again within the motion too, adopting extra of the chilly and ruthless character that dominated his arc within the earlier episodes as he interrogates two of David’s individuals for Ellie’s location. The present has been in a position to delve into the totally different layers of Joel’s character fairly successfully and it is virtually chilling – and just a little badass – to see a personality that was having panic assaults two episodes in the past torturing individuals virtually immediately after waking up from a life-threatening harm. 

The episode ends with Joel discovering and comforting Ellie after she killed David and escaped the burning constructing. It was an incredible second of humanity in an episode the place its heroes had been pressured into brutal positions with the morally bankrupt dregs of society. 

Having the characters be aside narratively for just a little bit has solely strengthened their bond and the way a lot they want one another. It’s an important and essential second of improvement as we head into the finale.

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