(The editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for “The Last of US” Season 2, section 2.)
Still rolls from the latest developments on “Severrance,” “The White Lotus,” and “Yellowjackets”? Spring TV is already a doozy 2025, but “The last of us“Does not release. For season 2, section 2,” Through the Valley “, HBO’s wild inventive mushroom/zombie -apocalypse drew a classic water cooler movement and anesthetized audience with an unforgettable loss.
“He dies and thinks he deserves to die, and it’s a really miserable way to go,” Writing IndieWires Ben Travers. By reviewing the episode, the Traverse attack described in the center as “surprising” – with a lot of TV fans agreed that the sudden departure of Pedro PascalThe hero is among TV’s most shocking deaths so far.
Yes, Joel-the beloved Hunky Loner, who ran a lot of season 1, and became a father figure for Ellie (Bella Ramsey), who now has to lead Season 2 is gone. It’s a scene so scary that you might forget that Customizes a video game released in 2020. Talking to IndieWire, knowing that this particular character loss has given rage on the Internet before, series of co -creators Craig Mazin had already expected the fans’ grief.
“It’s ok,” Mazin said. “I think they might think they’re angry at me. It’s good. I think they might just be angry, which is also ok. I mean, this show is designed to provoke some rather intense feelings, and where these feelings go is good. The most important thing is that they feel something. The worst would be if they went,”HA!“Then I would really have failed.”
But to make viewers feel “angry”, “sad” or even “confused”? It is an artistic win for Showrunner. Mazin emphasized the importance of processing season 2, section 2’s terrible clinic with patience. He also offered the hope that “The Last of Us” could even surprise the most upset in the end. HBO has Already renewed the show for season 3Expand the story in addition to the two -part source material.
“Give yourself time to see how you feel like it a week later, two weeks later,” Mazin said. “And I will say, give the show time. You might think it goes like this and it will stop going that way.”
Watch the interview in the video at the top of this story.
“The Last of US” Season 2 airs new episodes on Sunday nights at 21 at HBO and Max.
