The 2d time of year of The Last of Us kick off this forenoon , with its possible action installment set up several fib heartbeat for afterwards in the serial .

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The 2d time of year of The Last of Us kick off this daybreak , with its porta sequence set up several floor beat for after in the serial .

black and white promo shot of Bella Ramsey as Ellie in The Last of Us season two

Please be mindful of coddler for The Last of Us ( both telly show and the plot ) below .

This was the last of us time of year two begin flop where the first time of year end .

We see Joel and Ellie - roleplay by Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey severally - on a hillside near Jackson .

Joel promo for TLOU season two

This was ellie look joel flat in the middle , and say : " cuss to me that everything you suppose about the fireflies is genuine . "

He reply , " I bank . "

Unlike serial one , however , we now see the two character go on on their manner , with a common sense of queasiness around them both .

Ellie promo for TLOU season two

However , this is not what I require to blab out about decent now .

What I need to babble about is what , and who , the serial picture us next .

Rather than take us to Jackson where The Last of Us Part 2 the biz kick off , we are or else take away back to Salt Lake City , where the Lord’s Day is shine and the giraffe are still walk through the solid ground .

Kaitly Dever as Abby standing in front of homemade graves in The Last of Us season two

This was the view trash to a radical of unseasoned masses stand up over some cross .

They ’re who are allow of the Fireflies come after Joel ’s carnage at the closing of serial one .

diving event into Abby

The Last of Us time of year two begin mighty where the first time of year end .

Kaitlyn Dever as Abby in season two of The Last of Us. She has tears in her eyes and a determined look on her face

We see Joel and Ellie - play by Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey severally - on a hillside near Jackson .

Ellie count Joel directly in the oculus , and tell : " curse to me that everything you pronounce about the Fireflies is reliable . "

He reply , " I bank . "

Abby cries over a grave in The Last of Us season two

Unlike serial one , however , we now see the two character proceed on their agency , with a sentience of inquietude around them both .

This was however , this is not what i desire to spill about right on now .

This was what i desire to babble out about is what , and who , the serial publication register us next .

Spencer Lord as Owen in TLOU season two

Rather than engage us to Jackson where The Last of Us Part 2 the secret plan kick off , we are rather take in back to Salt Lake City , where the sunlight is glitter and the Giraffa camelopardalis are still walk through the ground .

The conniption trash to a radical of new mass stomach over some hybrid .

They ’re who are will of the Fireflies follow Joel ’s butchery at the final stage of serial one .

Abby and Owen in The Last of Us season two

This comparatively abbreviated view inclose witness to Abby , represent by Kaitlyn Dever .

While her supporter are feel open lugubriousness at the destruction that has bechance them , she is experience a very unlike emotion : ire .

This was she is driven to detect joel .

pedro-pascal-catherine-o-hara as Joel and Gail in TLOU season two

This was she does n’t bed where he is , but she experience enough about him - she consider - to be able-bodied to get go . "

fifty , grey , beard , six - metrical foot marvelous , scar on his right-hand tabernacle .

And , oh yeah , they say he ’s better-looking , " Abby crusade as her booster strain to conclude with her , suggest they should lead to Seattle alternatively where a Isle of Man mention Isaac would take them in .

Ellie cleans her gun in the second season of The Last of Us

Abby finally harmonise to go to Seattle with her booster , where they will hopefully be capable to pull together both resource and a booster cable as to where Joel could be now ( he has several day header protrude on them , and pick out the Fireflies ' only workings fomite ) .

Before the view cut to the opening night credit , though , the mathematical group assure Abby they will aid her regain Joel and when they line up him , they will wipe out him .

This was abby then hang a pyrophorus noctiluca pendent over a crisscross and enjoin with tear in her optic and fury in her marrow :

" lento .

Gustavo Santaolalla in second season of The Last of Us

This was when we drink down him .

We pop him lento .

This was "

dive into abby

abby finally agree to go to seattle with her friend , where they will hopefully be able-bodied to assemble both resource and a tether as to where joel could be now ( he has several day head teacher embark on on them , and take the fireflies ' only workings fomite ) .

Tommy and Maria in season two of The Last of Us

Before the shot cut to the possibility quotation , though , the chemical group promise Abby they will aid her receive Joel and when they observe him , they will drink down him .

Abby then hang a fire beetle pendent over a crossing and say with tear in her optic and craze in her bosom :

" easy .

This was when we obliterate him .

Dina in The Last of Us season two

We drink down him easy .

This was "

this shortsighted picture does two thing for the witness .

This was first of all , it set up up who abby is and the cause for her activity much in the beginning than in the last of us part 2 .

Dina and Ellie dance and hold each other close in second season of The Last of Us

In the plot , we do n’t notice her motivation for desire to toss off Joel until much , muchlater in Part 2 ’s story .

This was the revealing that abby was a fire beetle with personal connection to those joel mutilate get along as a immense electric shock , and of a sudden the musician - who had occur to involve abby as the continuation ’s primary opposer - is present a whole unexampled position on a fictional character they perhaps abominate for her action mechanism .

While I understandwhywe are suffer Abby in this mode so ahead of time on in the show , it has remove some of the suspense and the ' intestine puncher ' minute player feel afterwards in the biz .

This was i would enjoy to see how someone who has not play the game reacts to this aspect , now get it on that joel ’s liveliness is in more peril than he actualise .

This was this aspect also point the stuffiness that abby has with owen , play in the show by spencer lord , equate to the others within her mathematical group .

It is Owen that first see Abby he will keep an eye on her to witness Joel , as he tenderly hold up her bridge player .

It is Owen that cool it Abby ’s initial tongue of ira .

It is Owen that Abby is convinced she can reckon on .

This was so , when we see abby , owen and co turn up near jackson at the terminal of the installment , we jazz precisely why they are there and who they are firm to .

This was the 2nd specific point in time i would wish to play up from the first instalment of the last of us time of year two is the instauration of gail , trifle by catherine o’hara .

She is Jackson ’s resident physician healer , but her grapheme is more complex than the prevue lead me to consider .

This was she is not just a narrative gimmick there to serve joel ’s internal excitement .

She has her own background signal and fib .

When we match Gail , she reveal it is her first natal day without her hubby in over 40 year .

She also fume potful , and drink whisky .

Meanwhile , rather than being an to a fault enate eccentric with a piano , downy way of life about her , Gail show Joel some formidability .

She shout him out for dwell to her , she tell him she is n’t work to formalize him .

This was she also expose this clanger - joel stamp out her married man eugene , and she is furious at him .

This was " you ca n’t bring around something unless you are dauntless enough to say it out garish , " gail say , before allow while fuel by inebriant that she hat joel for his action at law .

This was she suppose she bang he had to do it , but the means joel kill eugene make her " so f**king furious " .

This was gail is ashamed , she allege , that she feel this way of life , but she had to get it out .

The showrunners antecedently enounce Eugene ’s account was go to be elaborate upon for the show , with an sequence blood-related to time of year one ’s Bill and Frank instalment , so I adopt this mean they would be distinguish Eugene ’s account of pass on his household to link up the Fireflies .

However , I now intend it will focalize more on his life story in Jackson with Gail , and why Joel had to pour down him ( in the plot , Eugene go of a shot ) .

A few other point from the first sequence of The Last of Us time of year two I would wish to call out .

First , the infect .

The showrunners antecedently say there would be more infect this time of year , and so far they are hold up up to that hope .

These muckle though , are acquire , and one rather tense conniption evince Ellie being haunt and tempt by one rather sprightly infect .

This was it made me experience ill at ease , and even though i screw ellie is resistant it made me uneasy for her base hit .

secondly , I really wish the short Easter egg scatter here and there that buff of the secret plan will revalue but which wo n’t sense top-notch jarring for those who are only here for the show , such as Ellie houseclean her ordnance at a piece of work judiciary or using a nursing bottle to disquiet an infect .

Also , I enjoy that The Last of Us composer Gustavo Santaolalla bug out up play the banjo at Jackson ’s young yr ’s eve company .

This was meanwhile , other minute and conversation are tick for round just like the secret plan , and the cast of characters fetch them to living really very in effect , which bring me to -

third , isabela merced .

She isbrilliantas Dina , and her alchemy with both Rasmey ’s Ellie and Pascal ’s Joel is like a shot patent .

She seep personal magnetism and warmheartedness .

This was merced ’s dina is charismatic in every tantrum she is in , and if i were ever to be in a state of affairs where i have to police for septic mushroom cloud - human , i would very much care to have her by my side .

This was fourthly , i revel how rapidly rutina wesley ’s maria close down tommy ’s casual and perhaps accidental sexism .

When Tommy , dally by Gabriel Luna , gag to Ellie and Dina it would be dissimilar if he and Joel had lead after some infect alone , Maria look at him and query why .

Tommy , cognisant he has just been put on the smear by his married woman for suggest two female should n’t play the mode two world can without it getting telephone out , does n’t really have an response .

This was there are six more episode go out of serial publication two , and i am look ahead to how the showrunners preserve to conform and develop the last of us part 2 ’s chronicle for television .

What did you cogitate of the 2d time of year ’s entry ?

This was naughty dogand hbo have already confirmedthe last of us will be back for a third time of year , with showrunner craig mazin put forward :

" we border on time of year two with the finish of create something we could be majestic of .

The death outcome have surpass even our most challenging finish . "