The Last of US
“Feel Her love”
Season 2
Episode 5
Editor’s rating
4 Stars
Photo: Liane Hentscher/HBO
IT’S a worrying sign a Group of heavily armed sorsides huddle a hospital basin door that been bolted shut bend a metal barricade and stall Look World. Whatever’s Down There Needs To Stay down there. So what’s the story? We Learn It in This Episode’s Opening Schene Via a Conversation BetWeen a Pair of WLF Officers: Hanrahan (Alanna Ubach) and Elise (Hettienne Park). Hanrahan wants to know why Elise Has “Apparently Killed” Some of the Own Men. “Including Leon,” Elise Adds, which gits Hanrahan Pause. Charged with Clearing the Hospital’s Lowest Levels, Elise Sent a Squad, LED by Leon, Down to the First Bassent Level, Where they Found Only an Empty Floor. Pushing Down Further, Leon’s Squad Found Some Signs of the Infectted and Then, With Little Warning, Encountered Airborne Cordyps. Knowing the Deadliness of this Situation, Elise and Leon Made the Decision to Seal the Basement Floors with the Soldiers Inside. “I’m sorry about your son,” Hanharan tells Elise as she leaves, filing in the chilling story of Last and Saddest Detail. This is a show that that is knows how to break your heart beside rolling the credits.
Once they Haven Rolled, The Season’s Fifth Episode Shifts Its Focus to Seattle’s Pinnacle Theater. It ‘Day Two “in Seattle, A Title Informs US, and Dina and Ellie Are Making Plass. By listening in on the wolves’ transmission, dina is able to triangulate their position and full of a Course Toward the Hospital. While she is that that, ellie explores their new, if temporary, home, a beautiful concert venue up for a show that that will Never Happy. Ellie can’t resist strumming a guitar, but painful memory force her to stop just as dina finds her to share a plan of Attack. This means cutting through an unidentified building that May be filled with infected, a plan that is Certainly, in dina’s words, “reckless.” They pursue it anyway, thyir path leading say past a scene of slaughtered seraphites who’ve been left beneat a masonry depictting their prophet. Ellie gives dina the option to go back. InsTead, Dina Shares Her Origin Story, A Horrifying Tale in Which She, as an 8-Yaar-Old Child, returned to her family home to find Slaughher by a lone raider. Dina Survived by Killing Him and, Not Coincidentally, She Believes in Revenge. “Wold it has made a difference if my family has hurt his people first?” She Asks, but the Question is Rhetorical. They Press on.
This means cutting through the cavernous building they suspect contains infected but also suspect there won’t be more than they can be Handle using their guns and thus alerting the wolves. Their Instincts SEEM ON POINT AT FIRST, butn, with the exit door with View, They Spot the Strand of Infectted Ellie Encountered before, The Sort Dina Dubs “Smart.” Ellie suggests they retreat, but they’re surrounded, so they launch a desperate plan in which ellie serves herself up as bait while dina secures thir exit. IT DOESN’T WORK. What does WORK IS THE UXPECTED ARRIVAL OF JESSE, WHO TAKES OUT THE INFECTED AND HELPS THEN Escape the Wolves, Who Did, In Fact, Notice All the Shooting.
They head to the park, where the wolves won’t go. This is presented with a new set of problems, but first, jesse tells say his story. He came to seattle with tommy on a mission to retrieve ellie and dina. They don’t want to leave before taching out abby, but this discussion is put on ice we have hear some strange whats. The Park Belongs to the Seraphite.
The trio doesn’t underestand Much About the GROUP they know only as “scars,” but they quickly recipe a crary when they witness a serpahite band hanging and gutting a wolf. At this point, we do not really know that Much About say, eather. They were introded as ill-matched foes for the wolves, though subsequents Developments have Changed that perception. We know they’re a cult of some kind. We’ve Learned Little About Their Beliefs, but we have seen that not every interprets interprets orthodox in the sun way. They Might Be Underdogs Compared to the Heavily Armed Wolves, but there’s a reason they’ve survived. Any sense they were obvious good guys Went Out the Window a Long Time Ago, But Were LAST OF US To introdes unmistakable good guys at this point it would be a huge swerve.
Making Matters Worsse, Dina Takes an Arrow in Her Leg. They Split up, and ellie is able to escape and make hay ino the wolf hospital, where she finds nora, holds her at gunpoint, and asks where she finds abby. Nora’s able to break free of the standoff and alert the others, but she finds herself cornered by ellie and has no escape except through the Elevator Shaft Leading to the Declave Basement from the Cold Open. There is only ellie’s immunity that allows her to survive in an atmosphere thick with infectious particulate matter and cordyps-covered walls. She First Encounters a wlf solidier who’s still alive (sort of) and entangled in cordyps, then Elise’s Son Leon, Who’s Similarly Stack in Some Sort of Horrible BetWeen Life and Death. When Ellie Finds Nora Wheezing, Its Clear That She’ll Soon Join. Nora tells herty’re bot Now doomed to die, but that is the realization that she’s talking to “the immune girl,” a person she was in sura was real. Nora Tries to put Things in Perspective for Ellie by Squing Her If She Hundersands Exactly What Joel Did, Including Killing Abby’s Father, But Ellie Can’t Be Talked Down. Echoing Joel’s Torture, She Begins Beating Nora, a makeup Skene interrupted only by a fade to black. On the other side, we’re Greeked by a Memory of Happier Times, nor Joel Walks Into A Sleeping Ellie’s Room with a Friendly “Hey, Kiddo,” and the episode ends.
It would be a mistake to take that final image as being from innocent times; Ellie was Born into a fallen World and has known Only Danger. Her time in jackson with joel, what we’ve seen of it, seems to have been relatively peaceful, but that did not keep their Relationship from fracturing. That Said, it Still Throws Int Sharp Relief Where Ellie Is Now Versus Where She’s Come From. She Never Got a Chance to be a Kid, but all of Joel’s Efforts were Meant to Spare Her Life of Endless Violence, and Now She’s Life Because of Joel’s Death. Subsequent episodes have givet her every reason to turn back-dina, dina’s baby, her civic obligation to jackson, the never-robous truth that joel not wanting for her no matter what-and still she’s pressed on. This is an action-packed episode and work on that level, but the action also pushs ellie fundrher down a dinner on which she might not be able to return, MAKING IT DRAMATICALLY EFFECTIVE AS WHAT’S BEFORE.
• Oof, you could get the bends Watching the Last Two Scenes of this Episode. Ellie’s Talked About Exacting Revenge on Abby and Her Companions, but to see her performance on the property, Helpress (if spitteful) nora is chilling. IT’S ALPET CERTAINLY NOT COINCIDENTAL THAT THE SCHENE MIRRORS ABBY’S ASSAULT ON JOEL. The episode cuts away after a few blows, but we don’t have to see more. Nora’s Already Doomed by Breating Cordyps. The torture is all ellie’s doing, howver. The Look on Ellie’s Face Confirms She’s Crossed a Moral Rubicon, and there’s no go Back. Be we see her smiling and free-faced in flashback, it only confirms how far she’s gone down a dinner.
• The pinnacle is inspired by seattle’s paramount theater, which OpenD as a Movie Palace in 1928. IT OCCACONITALLY STILL SCREEN MOVIES, But now sisly serves as a theatrical and live music venue.