Future Days – Simon’s Incoherent Blog

“If you love someone, you can always see their face.”

(SPOILER WARNING!)

This week’s The Last of Us was one of the show’s occasional flashback episodes, filling us in on some vital backstory that, until now, has only been alluded to. I’ve said from the beginning of the season that we were bound to get one of these, as so much was made of Joel’s killing of Gail’s husband Eugene, a character we hadn’t even seen. I must admit, I was also too curious to avoid the spoiler that cult character actor Joe Pantoliano had been cast as Eugene, so it was just a question of time until he made his appearance.

“This is where we live. And what’s that?”
“The fence!”
“And what’s inside?”
“People!”
“And what’s outside?”
“Monsters!”

(SPOILER WARNING!)

It’s a typically slow-burn start for the sophomore season of video game adaptation The Last of Us, a show whose first season I very much enjoyed despite never having played any of the games. As before, the most obvious comparison is to the seemingly never-ending The Walking Dead, and as before, The Last of Us is a far more thoughtful show. Both have very strong characterisation, but while TWD’s season openers typically included a spectacular horde of zombies, this dispensed with spectacle to build on the characters and relationships that were so strong last time.

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