The rapid recovery I can forgive since it’s based on a game where you heal from gunshot wounds and blunt force trauma with a bandage. Around your arm. Repeatedly lol

As for the red-head post rage kill….. kinda wanna see it….

That's one of the things to not carry over from video games when doing an adaptation.

Maybe… probably…

But I get it. More in her situation than Joel’s. I don’t have a daughter so the drive ain’t there but if it’s me or David and Buddy Boy? If I think I’m the best hope for humanity, I’m hacking and slashing lol

For Ellie, I don’t see how anything she did was super hero level. And I’ve never been stabbed by the broken end of a baseball bat but I also don’t see the same for Joel. It was clearly dangerous and probably insane, but I don’t think what he did was over the top.

Yep. Initially I thought Joel's recovery was rather rapid but fight or flight response makes it believable to me after he was stitched up and given the antibiotics. Prior to that he didn't really feel a threat to him or Ellie.

Also didn't feel Ellie did anything superhuman in that episode and infact loved the addition to the show where they show her falling on her face when she first goes out to hunt.

Joel's motivations are what's getting him to that superhero level of recovery. Rest and meds, yeah, sure, but he's finally embraced that Ellie is now his surrogate daughter (calling her "baby girl" after she escapes the rapey preacher, etc.) after a decade of not properly processing and dealing with the loss of his bio daughter. Sure, they could have showed him slowly recovering bit by bit if you want to be a nit about it-- we all know that penicillin takes a week or more to fix an infection and isn't just a one shot and you're all better kinda thing-- but I think the story moves forward better by implying that his condition is slightly improving beneath the surface and that he needs to will himself the rest of the way because he absolutely can not go through losing Ellie in the same way that he wasn't able to protect Sara all those years ago.

Also the guy that gets the butchers knife to the throat near the end (not the preacher but the other one that's there putting Ellie on the table) is played by Troy Baker, who voiced Joel in the games. Not typically an actor, but a fairly prominent voice guy in video games. Also did Batman in the Arkham trilogy, for example.

Was maybe the darkest episode of any series I can remember outside of possibly the Red Wedding in GoT? Might be forgetting some others but yeah, that was dark.

Yeah, this really gave me The Mountain vibes from Game of Thrones and then Ellie hacking up the preacher gave me vibes of when Aria killed Meryn Trant in the brothel. A fun episode to watch, my wife and I openly chuckled in the scene with Joel having the two guys tied up when he said he believed him

best episode so far, i also spotted the rapid recovery of Joel but yeah its a tv show 9/10 that episode for sure and acted really well

Finally saw it Great episode .

Dark and gritty

Aside from episode 3 they've pretty much followed the game flow pattern like clockwork. Episode 7 was extra downloadable content from the original and it was one of the top rated video games of all time. Infact much of what I see people say they love and hate both comes from the original game content so if you want to hate it's probably because they are trying to appease the lovers of the original game. Episode 3 went off the rails and you guys can judge for yourselves what they were trying to put out there in that episode but overall most of the story has followed the game frame by frame in a way.

As a game player the only thing I think they've undermined a bit in a way is the threat of the infected to the humans. In the game you are constantly battling infected but in the show they almost seem like an afterthought. I've loved the performances so far by all the human actors but at the same time I cannot help thinking cannot we all work together to create a similar situation to 'Jackson' all around the world? I mean so far the infected have not seemed to be much of a threat in the show.

I am not a game player myself, but not throwing the budget into big cgi battles sets it apart from twd imho. The looming threat is sprinkled in and instead of constantly facing hordes of monsters we are shown how people cope with the apocalypse. Cults, fascism, preppers, communism and all kinds of predatory groups of raiders, hunters, slavers etc.
Facing mindless orcs becomes repetative and dull very soon as seen on twd .
The one thing i find annoying/too predictably is the fact that barely any person or group they meet makes it to the next episode but afaik thats in the spirit of the game and we are following joel and ellies journey not henrys or bills.

Yeah, hadn't really thought about it, but it interesting almost all of the action has been human on human.

ugh just looked up runtime for the last ep

imdb says 50 mins
thetvdb says 43 mins

was hoping it would be a nice long one. guess not.

i was too...that's disappointing

I’m really not understanding the episode lengths. They didn’t need to all be 80 minutes like 1 and 3, but they damn sure could’ve rounded them up to an hour for the others and filled in some important moments.

Since I’ve played the game, I know their bond but I’m not thoroughly convinced the non-players do. They accomplished it in subtle ways, but there’s no reason they couldn’t have tacked on a couple of minutes in each episode of them. Same with Kathleen. 2-4 minute scene/s showing a little more. She’s been the biggest complaint of the show and that would have fixed it. And a bit environmental bonding with Joel and Ellie traversing through infected areas to solve the lack of that threat. My guess now is that one of the reasons they got rid of the spores was to not have them in the show as much.

That said, there is very little story left to tell. So 43 minutes is plenty for the finale, but what the hell kinda show makes their shortest episode the season finale?? Can’t freaking wait though.

I imagine that is what would happen in real life. Humans ****ing suck

Just please for the love of God, no f'ing cliffhanger in the final episode.

Definitely the crux if that's how you spell that word to the plot of this all. They also did change the way the infected act in the the show which I guess keeps the threat alive.

The infected in the show seem a bit stronger and they also have that ability to communicate with each other telepathically which wasn't a thing in the game. In episode five they ran through Kathleen's small army with relative ease.

But they'll s2 and beyond just making stuff up

The Last Of Us Part 2 will take 2 season. It’s pretty much been confirmed. I think there will be Part 3 before the 3rd season airs, or at least well before season 4, if there is one. But there is a hell of a lot of story in Part 2, so 2 seasons minimum. But I also thought they’d end season 1 with Tess’s death when was confirmed they were making this. That would have made Part 2 like 4 seasons lol

oh there's multiple games? i thought when it was said there's little story left to tell, it meant the game storyline was done.

Sorry, yes. 2 games. First one was 2013 and the 2nd was 2020. This show was in development while they were working on the 2nd game.

I guess we could have seen this coming but man that was a tough one. Better hope they have some medical school library books in Jackson.

Joel going b-a-n-a-n-a-s