Joel’s death in episode 2 explained

If you’re not aware of “last of us” – and, in particular, if you haven’t seen “via valley”, the second episode of the 2 season – Stop reading this right now. Massive, large, huge spoilers are ahead.

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I did not play “Last of us, Part II”, and I didn’t play the original game that made this naughty dog’s creation into a sensation. (The scary video games emphasize me; even in games such as “Wildlife Breaths”, I spend an exorbitant amount of time, running and just being a small guy rather than fighting monsters or bosses. The controller. If it happened on my TV, I couldn’t look at.

The study goes as follows: Abby, the new hero in the 2 season of adaptation HBO “Last of us”, playing Kaitlin Dever, is introduced at the beginning of the show when the girl hunting Joel Miller (Pedro Pascal) – in particular, looking for revenge for the group and medical professionals he killed at the end of the season 1. Cardisipov, to find treatment, was Dad Abby, and for five years she was looking for Joel to settle the number. When she confronts him face to face, this is a pretty sequence of gastric turning flawlessly both devour and accele- and it’s just from the horror movie, especially for the viewers who came to fall in love with Joel (and understand his decision in the final 1 season). The way director Mark Milod shoots, unwavering, terrible and devastating … And there is no question that it will be one of the most spoken television points in 2025.

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Particularly noticeable thing is how Abby kills Joel in the adaptation of HBO “The Last of Us” – which is fallen by the Nile Printman, the creator of the original game, as well as the praised screenwriter and the Craig Masin show – that’s what it is, it rather More brutal than in video games. This does not mean that the game is not a terrible tough moment; Witness there is horrible, but in the show Mazin and Printman allowed Abby to raise the ante.

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After beating him with his bare hands and shooting saved Abby from the infected horde – Abby says Joel exactly why she was literally and figuratively shot for him. Eli, who gets into an abandoned house where Abby and her friends squat, watches, shout and press to the floor when Abby takes a golf -buzz that she uses to absolutely soften Joel, who is now broken … and takes a sharp, broken end and knife Joel in the neck. Really amazing at this moment – that’s what is in no way to make Joel survive this; Like the Ned Stark Sean Binin, he is very, very dead.

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This is, without a doubt, this is a stunning moment to see the fans of the television version of the “last of us” that did not play in the game (or, in this regard, fans that did not play in the game and Which carefully avoided seeing any spoilers associated with the 2020 game). For those who haveIt is also quite amazing because viewers who are waiting for this moment could imagine that he would come later in the season. NO RIGHT: Joel dies in season The second episodeAnd the way he dies is a rigid, rigid, vicious and shown in complete bloody glory. This is great – especially to see Eli’s reaction – and quite unforgettable. So where is the show from here, especially when it comes to Abby?

The loss of one of the two main characters of the show – which the audience is really connected during the first season of “the last of us” – is obviously the main one. We learned in the premiere of 2 season “Future Days” that something came between Joel and Eli over the past five years and observe horrible. Handing it all, it’s easy to imagine The viewers will have some complex feelings regarding Abbi, and video game fans already have a difficult look at her.

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In the video game, players just start playing the role of Abby with a small preamble before the game starts after the focus switches from Eli to her (no, I didn’t play this game but YouTube exists for good reason). Obviously the show should change this by presenting Abby at the beginning of “future days” And informing us at once that her goal is to kill Joel. Joel’s death scene serves several goals. It gives Eli a new mission (now she It will be the one who tries to avenge the person she loves) gives Joel the end of her story and puts Abby as an antagonist (yet). It is easy to assume that viewers will not feel warm and vague about Abby – which is partly evidence that Kaitlin dever, whose heroes usually, well, are more sympathetic than it provides a A really The shocking performance as this angry, vicious nature. Since Eli, Dina, and the rest of Jackson Grepl with the death of the girl he had offended in advance, the fans would have to find out how to feel about Abby, the hero who killed the character we followed for a while.

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“The last of us” was the basis at this point – because, you know, this is the adaptation of the game where the same thing happens! – But there is really no doubt that the series has gained Joel’s death to an ambitious horrific degree. The fall from it will continue when the second season of the show moves; New episodes on the air on Sundays at 9 pm EST on Max and HBO.