AS Ellie’s Luck Starts to Run Out, an Emotional Cliffhanger Sets Up A Catartic Episode 6

Warning! Spoilers for the Last of US Season 2, Episode 5!

The Last of US Season 2, Episode 5’s Cold Open demonstrations one of my favorite things about the series, and one of its Biggest Strengths. Inly a few moments, I underestouod who the characters are in the wlf, what they are experiencing, and the emotional stakes of the schene. The Last of US HAVE BRINGS US FULL CIRCLE BY THE FINAL MOMENTS OF EPISODE 5, DRIVING THE SHARP KNIFE OF GRIEF THAT THE SHOW THE SHOW DEEPER WITH WHAT HAVE BEEN A THROWAWAY SHOT OR MOMENT. The Show Never Ignores Everyone’s Humanity, it is all not acting like it.

Howver, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) Taks another Step Toward Forgetting This About Herself in Episode 5. The Last of US Season 2, Episode 4 Gave Her Something to Fight for and Believe in With Dina (Isabela Merced) Pregnancy and Their Sweet Love Scene. Of Course, Like Most Good Things in The Last of USThis Happy News has a dinner side, as ellie grapples with her relance on dina and the fact that dina be well with her rights to let ellie go alone. The Pushes Series Ellie Down This Lonely Path, and she’s more than Willing to Keep Going.

Though we miss Jeffrey Wright as Isaac, His Ominous Presence is Felt. There have ben a lot of narrow escapes so far and the ease of their question is giving with pauses. While there are have been some scary moments, and the fight with the hordes in episode 4 was far from pleasant, the bumps in the road and dina have relatively minimal. This Straightforward Approach to Getting Revenge has Been Lulling US, and Ellie, Into Thinking that what they do they doing is right, but Right and Wrong Are Relative In The Last of US.

Ellie Gets Lucky in the Last of Us Episode 5, MAKING US WONDER WOND THIS LUCK WILL RUN OUT

It might sound strange to call ellie fortunate, but time to revenge can only get more treacherous

The Echo Chamber of Ellie and Dina’s Journey Gets a Harsh Reality Check When Jesse (Young Mazino) Swoops in Like a White Knight, Which, of Course, Ellie Terribly. His appeararance reminds dina of what she and ellie have been dancing Around Since The Pregnancy Reveal; Dina Should probably Go Home If This Baby is a Future She Wants to Preserve. Coming face to face with the Intelligent Infectted, the WLF, and Witnesssing the Shocking Execution in the Park Wold Be Too Much for Anyone to Deal with. Jesse’s Arrival is a Sharp Tug Back to Jackson.

Howver, Dina’s Speech to Ellie About Following This Plan Through to the End Might Have Been The Green Light Ellie Needed to confront the fact that she knew what joel did. The Father-Daughter Pair Might have been dancing around this truth in jackson, but ellie knew from the moment she woke up in joel’s arms at the end of the season 1, and there’s no hiding this anymore. While it’ile on-the-nose that dina suddenly details a backsory featuring the perfect moral compromise ellie wants to hear, she needed this push, and so did the audience.

The Results of Dina’s Diatribe come quickly, as the trio has to split up, and alone, Ellie Feels No Scruples About Taching Out Her Pain On Nora (Tati Gabrielle). The Last of US Sets up the exciting the possession that ellie will have to hunt down the members of abby’s (Kaitlyn Dever) Party One by one before we finally see Abby Again. Though her action haven’t faded from memory, the longer we gavet seeing our villain, the most distant and abstract she becomes. JUST AS JOEL WAS NO LONGER HUMAN TO ABBY, THIS IS WHAT SHE’S BECOMING IN Ellie’s Mind.

This is what sparks ellie to mimic this brutality in her confrontation with Nora. Howver, i wasn’t fully convinced by Ramsey when ellie let this violence out. Something isn’t quite right about the way ramsey let the intensity of the moment land on Ellie. We also see a new side of the seraphite in episode 5. Though it never seamed like any faction in The Last of US Wold be Peaceful, The WLF Has Been The “Villain.” Howver, The Graphic Execution in the Park Makes USE the scars for what they are: Another spoke of the Cycle of Violence.

Ellie got Lucky in Episode 5. If Nora Hadn’t stumbled into the spore-fidied basin, and jesse hadn’t come to say just in time, things could’ve gotten out of hand. Nora’s Near-Escape Forces The Audience to Confront Just How Emotionally Off-Balanca and Easily Distraced Ellie is, and that she is a ready to become the Kind of person who can finish a queue like this. The mere mention of joel baces her back to that moment, and that not a luxury she can affford, especilantly when she inevitably confronts abby, who will be a much more ruthter than Nora.

The Last of US Episode 5 Leaves US On an Emotional Cliffhanger

AFTER A LONG STRING OF VIOLENT EPISODES, The LAST OF US HINTS AT A FLASHBACK THAT WILL OUR HEARTS OUT

I kew we hadn’t see the last of pedro Pascal this season. To have Pascal for Only Two Episodes and Never Bring Him Back Wauld Have Been A Waste of the Actor and Perfectly Good Emotional Minefields. The Last of US Has Been Sad, and Ellie’s Still Reeling from the aftersshocks of her grief, but we have haven’t have a good, Ugly Cry Yet. I WOULDN’T BE SURPRED IF EPISODES 6 DELIVERED THE JOEL AND Ellie Time We’ve Been Waiting for, made all the most potent by ellie admitting to herself that she always kew what joel did in the hospital.

Of Course, The Last of US Has Been Setting up a Lot more than flashbacks and ellie’s emotional journey, nor the evolution of cordyps can’t get Ignored. More Intelligent Infectted Appear in Episode 5, and now that an Airborne aspect of the virus has entered the equation, there’s a new fear that there won a anything left of humanitity for fight. The Slow Encroachment of this Future Creeps at the Edges of The Last of US Episode 5, Reminding US that they petty human revenge Might ultimately mean nothing.

New Episodes of The Last of US Season 2 Air Weekly on Sundays at 9 Pm Est on Max and HBO.

The Last of US Season 2, Episode 5

7/10

Release Date

January 15, 2023

NETWORKS

Hbo

Showrunner

Craig

Directors

Craig Mazin, Peter Hoar, Jeremy Webb, Ali Abbasi, Mark Mylod, Stephen Williams, Jasmila Žbanić, Lisa Johnson, Nina Lopez-Corrado

Wriers

Neil Druckmann, Craig Mazin

Pros & Cons

• Each of the factions becomes more fully realized in episode 5.
• More Information is Revealed About Cordyps’ Evolution.
• Ramsey & Merced Are As Fun a Pair to Watch as Ever.

• A Few Scenes FEEL LIKE A RESIDEND OF WHAT WE ALREADY Learned in Episode 4.
• Bella Ramsey’s Portrayal of Ellie’s Dark Side isn’t Fully Believable.