The second season of The Last of Us is under way, and this weekend the second episode aired, giving us more backstory and – importantly – setting up the main events from Part 2.
Please be aware of spoilers for The Last of Us, both the game series and the show, below.
There is no beating around the bush with this episode, and after a gentle start to the series we now getting thrown into a fray of infected, revenge, blood, death and heartache.
The episode as a whole was excellent, but I do feel it could have benefited from being a tad longer, or perhaps had an episode before it which would have allowed more time for character development. The second episode’s total run time was less than an hour, with essentially three stories all happening at the same time. Each story is compelling in its own right, but still, each could have used a little more time to breathe.
First, we have Ellie and Jesse on patrol together – a change from the game where it is Ellie and Dina who hole up together during the strom in Eugene’s cannabis farm (which is now in an abandoned store rather than a library).