This article contains spoilers for the first two seasons of The Last of Us .

Season 2 of The Last of Us was always destined to be an uphill battle. For starters, since the show’s inception, fans of the video game have been unfairly targeting lead actor Bella Ramsey for not living up to their fantasies of how Ellie should be and look. Then, as those who played the games already knew, any remotely faithful adaptation would be forced to begin this season by brutally killing off the game’s other protagonist , Ellie’s surrogate father Joel (Pedro Pascal)—a development gamers had raised a stink about en masse back in 2020, when the second installment of the game was released. Now, after reckoning with the massive void where Pascal’s grounding performance used to be, there’s anot

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