If you are not up to date on “The Last of Us” – and specifically, if you have not seen “Through the Valley”, the second episode of season 2 – Stop reading this now. Massive, major and enormous spoilers await us.
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I did not play “The Last of Us Part II”, and I did not play the original game which made this creation of nasty dogs in sensation. (Frightening video games based on fight stress me; even in games like “Breath of the Wild”, I spend a disproportionate time and that he is just a little guy instead of fighting monsters or bosses.) All this to say that I am not seeing him in search of “controller. When it happened on my TV, I could not look away.
The event takes place like this: Abby, a new character of season 2 of the adaptation of HBO of “The Last of Us” played by Kaitlyn Dever, is presented at the start of the second season of the show as a girl hunting Joel Miller (Pedro Pascal) – looking for revenge for a group of fireflies and professionals who killed at the end of season 1. Ramsey) at the Cordyce virus to find a remedy was Abby’s father, and for five years, she has been looking for Joel to settle the score. When she finds herself face to face with him, it is a heartbreaking sequence and shot by the stomach – played perfectly by Dever and Pascal – and it is straight out of a horror film, especially for viewers who came to love Joel (And understand his decision in the final of season 1). The way she is turned by director Mark Mylod is flawless, horrible and devastating … and there is no doubt that it will be one of the most discussed television moments in 2025.
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This legendary moment of the last of us is even more traumatic in the television adaptation
A particularly notable thing about the way Abby kills Joel in the HBO television adaptation of “The Last of Us” – which is led by Neil Druckmann, creator of the original game, alongside the screenwriter and Showrunner Lauded Craig Mazin – is that he is significantly brighter than in video games. This does not mean that this is not a horribly violent moment in the game; It’s horrible to attend, but in the show, Mazin and Druckmann let Abby go up the bet a little.
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After beating it with bare hands and pulling it in the leg – and invalidating Dina (Isabela Merced), who patrolled with Joel before he Sauvé Abby from an infected horde – Abby explains to Joel exactly why she was literally and figured for him. Ellie, who finds herself in the abandoned house where Abby and his friends squat, look, howl and pinned on the ground, while Abby takes the golf club that she uses to decimate absolutely Joel who is now broken … and takes the end and the broken and the end and the fracture and the end and the broken and the end and the end and the broken and the broken and the end Handle Joel in the neck. The really striking thing about this moment is that there is certainly not So that Joel survives that; Like Ned Stark from Sean Bean years ago, he is very, very definitively dead.
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It is, without a doubt, a astonishing moment to see for the fans of the television version of “The Last of Us” who did not play games (or, moreover, the fans who did not play games And who carefully avoided seeing spoilers linked to the 2020 game). For those who to haveIt is also quite surprising because the public who was waiting for this moment could have imagined that it would come later in the season. Not the case: Joel dies in the season second episodeAnd the way he dies is brutal, violent, vicious and shown in all his bloody glory. It is tearing – in particular to see Ellie’s reaction – and completely unforgettable. So where is the spectacle of here, in particular with regard to Abby?
Abby will probably be the most divisor’s character in season 2 of the last of us after the valley
Losing one of the two main characters of the show – with whom the public has really linked throughout the first season of “The Last of Us” – is obviously major. We learned during the premiere of season 2, “Future Days”, that something has happened between Joel and Ellie in the past five years, and watch Ellie Watch Joel Die in the most brutal imaginable way, in case I do not do it explicitly clearly, awful. With all this in mind, it is easy to imagine that The public will have fairly complicated feelings about Abby, and fans of video games already have a complex view of her.
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In the video game, players simply start to play as Abby with little preamble to the start of the game after Focus goes from Ellie (no, I did not play the game, but YouTube exists for a reason). Obviously, the show had to change this by introducing Abby at the beginning of “future days” And inform us immediately that his goal is to kill Joel. Joel’s death scene is used for a few ends. This gives Ellie a new mission (now She is Will be the one who tries to avenge a person she loves), gives Joel an end of her story and puts Abby as an antagonist (for the moment). It is easy to assume that the public will not feel warm and vague about Abby – which is partly testified to the fact that Kaitlyn Dever, whose characters are generally more sympathetic than that, delivers a truly Shocking performance like this furious and vicious character. While Ellie, Dina and the rest of the residents of Jackson clicks with the death of Joel in the hands of a girl whom he has deeply gave up for years in advance, the fans will have to understand how to feel Abby, the character who killed a character that we have followed for a while.
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“The Last of Us” had a plan for this moment – because, you know, it is an adaptation of a game where this same thing happens! – But there is really no doubt that the series composed Joel’s death to a horrible ambitious degree. The fallout will continue as the second season of the show is advance; New episodes are broadcast on Sunday at 9 p.m. HNE on Max and HBO.
