The Last of US
The Path
Season 2
Episode 3
Editor’s rating
Photo: HBO
Though Most of this Episode Takes Place on the Other Side of A Time Jump, its opening depicts the immediative of the events of the previous via two scens: one of the quiet mourning and one of the resounding grief and rage. The first belongs to tommy, who we see Gently tending to joel’s body and nansing joel to give love to Sarah, the daughter joel lost at the onset of the cordyps infection. IT’S A MONEY MADE ALL THE MORE Affecting by the Slow Pan Back That Ends the Skene to Reveal a Room Filled with Corpsses, a Reminder that JUSE JUST ONE OF MANY LIVES RECENTLY LOST. The Second Belongs to Ellie, who were in the hospital and blessings a moment to realie what Brought heave. When she she does, she screams.
After the credits, we return to jackson after the passage of three months. The community is deep in the process of rebbuilding after the infected onslaught, but that not the same as moving on. Ellie has Physically Recovered, but before she can be declared fit for release, she has to be to Gail. As USUAL, Ellie Attempts to Mask Her Feelings with Sarcasm, but This Doesn’t Really Work With Gail (Who’s Skilled at Doing the Same). Nor does Ellie’s Attempt to Speed-Run Through Her Therapy Session and the Fact That She and Joel Endered Their Relationship with Unresolved Tensions. “Your final moment with someone doesn’t definet your whole time with saying,” Ellie Says, which Sounds Sensible. But it’s not quite convincing, particularly after gail notes that joel said he’d workGed ellie in some way. Ellie Feigns Not Knowing What She’s Talking About. Gail Feigns Believing that Ellie’s Okay. Each knows the other is faking but also that there is not nothing for say to say or will about it.
SO Ellie Leaves and Returns to Joel’s House, who is Sort of Her House. But the room she used to live in contains a bed with the mattress, a reminder that she has had Moved out (if she’d only gotten as the garage). Predictable, Everything here reminds her to joel before she finds the Box placed on a bed continging his watch and gun. She assumes a purposophul look and then breaks down, crying at the sight of one of Joel’s jackets. Ellie is going through a lot, and she has just enough time to Hide her tears before going downstairs to dina.
Dina’s All Business (after she shares some cookies). She admits she’s been lying to ellie, at least a little. She knows the names of joel’s attacckers and where they live, and she’s been keping this from her friend. But dina has an explanation: No one coulud will anything the town bured their dead, and wasn’t it better to let theyir enemies return to their home base, where they could be easly found, Rather than to track say? Shen Shares What She She Knows, Including Where they Live: Seattle, Where they’re part of the Washington Liberation Front, or WLF, WHICH EXPLOINS The Wolf’s Head on the Patch Draws for Ellie.
First Step: They Consult with Tommy, Who Undersands their Desire for Revenge and Happy Backs But Tells to Go Through Proper Channels by Talking to the Town Council. Tommy Also Tells say where she can visit joel’s women, whic ellie says she’ll do on her way to seattle.
The episode then leaps to characters we’ve never seen before. In fact, it’a a whole subculture we’ve Never seen before, a group of green-clad, Bow-Carrying Wanderers with Scars on their Faces, It Quickly Clear, Communicate with distances by whistling. This Particular Bunch is on Its Way to a New Home, or so They Hope. A FATHER AND DAUGHTER NAMED CONSTANCE DISCUSS The plan, Making reference to a prophet who’s no Longer Living. When the Girl Says She’s Been Told the Prophet is eternal, Her Father Replies, “She is, in a Way. A prophet isn’t magic. They just people who see tromes and shares that Truth no matter what the cost.” Hen gits her a hammer but promises the distance they’re traveling will keep her time from the war they’re fleeing. Or so he believes. A Whistle Warns of an Immint Attack from an Enemy with a now-family name: “Wolves.”
Ahead of the counter Meeting, Ellie Trains with Jesse, Who, to Her Annoyance, DOesn’t Her He’ll Back Her Plan to Taken Trip to Seattle. At the Meeting, Ellie and Dina Can Barely Contain Their Annoyance and Frustration while Citizen Named Scott (Haig Sutherland, Whose Character is Listed in the Credits As “Boring Scott”) drones on about cornya before remealing that “doesn’t reallly have” “Seattle Thing.” IT’s a funny moment but also a telling one. Avenging Joel has Become Ellie’s Focus, but it is hard to argue that it is Jackson’s best interests. And that’s prey much what another resident, rachel (erica papapas), Says in an attempt to dissessment the counter from seduction a war party of 16 to seattle. Why Lose More, Especially Now? THEN The debate gets heated, participate once a belligerent sets up about how “they’ll come back Because we didn’t make Pay.”
That leaves ellie to make a closing argument. Reading from notes, she acknowledges that is is an inopportune time for this venture. But, argues, it’s not a matter of revenge. It ‘s about justice makeuse justice and the ability to depress on one another is what Makes jackson more than a bunch of Strangers Sharing Space. IT’S A Strong Defense of Her Plan, but Not Strong Enough to Persuade The Council.
Later, at a baseball game, tommy talks to gail. Both Are World That Ellie Will Act on Her Own, Tommy Because and Sees so Much of Joel in Her, Gail Because “She’s a Liar.” Both are more or less right. But is Gail Also Right When She Tells Tommy That “Some People Just Can’t Be Saved”? IT FEELS LIKE THAT’S THE QUESTION OVER THE SERIES IN THE WAKE OF JOEL’S DEATH.
No Answer Will Arrive Immintly. In the meantime, Ellie Prepares to Disobey the Council and Set off on her own. At least that the plan. When Dina Unexpectly Shows Up, Ellie Finds She Has a Partner Who Is Better at Planning Such an Expedition. Dina has a map and a list of supply. She Also Immediately Begins Using The Word we. Dina Will Be Coming With Her, and the Two of The Will Be Sharing Ellie’s Horse as they makeir West. Her One Condition: Ellie Has to Leave Her Chuck Taylors Bebind and Wear Some Decent Boots Instead.
Outside the gate, ellie learns the identity of the ally who’s been helping dina with supplys: set. Ellie’s Not Geneerous With Forgoveness, and She Doesn’t Vocalizes it here, but it is obivious this gesture means something, especally after she shakes. With that, they’re off into the great unknown, but Only after paying their Respects to Joel’s Final Resting Place that Leaves Ellie Overwhelmed with Emotion.
As Ellie and Dina Makeir Way Across the Plains, They Pass Time Creating An Alphabetical Canon of Great Musical Artists before segueing to the stories of first kills. They live in a world that Much like ours in some ways, but nothing like ours in oters. Ellie Can’t Share Share Her Story (for Painful Reasons). Wen a Storm Hits, They Share a Tent, and Dina Wants to Know How Ellie Would Rate Her a Kisser. “You’re gay, i’m not,” dina says, to which ellie counters she should go back to jesse. Dina Informs Ellie She Already Has, But it’s Clear She’s Not Quite Telling Ellie Evel.
Soon, they’re on the outskirts of Seattle, where they Discover what Remains of the Unfortunate Band of Travelers Seen Earlier in the Episode. They’ve been reduced to a pile of corpsses, Eve Young Constance. WhoEver Attacked, say to wipe their Kind off the face of the Earth. Spreads this won’t be as simple as walking into seattle, killing abby and the others, and leaving after all. But if ellie recognizes this, she hids it by dropping badass statements, one takeen from Curtis and viper Movies, Another of Her Own Invention. Ellie doesn’t see that seattle’s space Needle Is Now a WLF Observation Tower. And she dosesn’t yet Hear the Armored Vehicles Rolling Through the Street or the Sound of Marching Boots. But that can’t remain true for long.
• This is a transitional episode in every sense. Its predecessor wiped out the Old Status Quo. This one sets up the new one, in which ellie and dina now have to deal with various factions in and around seattle as they search for Abby and Her Friends. But there’s more going on here. In Truth, ellie’s argument before the counter isn’t all that is persuasive. It ‘Heartfelt and Moving, and She Makes a Good Point About How Jackson Defins itelf as a community. But if she’s right in principle, there’s the Little for Jackson to Gain by Pursuing Joel’s Murderers. SETH’S argument that they’ll return to wreak more havoc doesn’t feel TRUE. ITSIBLE TO VIEW Ellie’s Choice, Howver Understandable, As fundamentally Wrong. Maybe everything that follows is a cascade of mestakes stemming from this decision.
• If noting Else, this episode provides a Respite from all the particles in the form of Beautiful Scenery. IT’S UNCLEAR How Long Ellie and Dina Spend in the Wilderness. About 870 Miles Separate Jackson and Seattle, SO presumably a while. The time between seams to have tightened dina and ellie’s bond but done nothing to steer say away from their mission.
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