On Sunday, May 25, the sophomore season of HBO’s The Last of Us ended with a literal bang, but an emotional whimper. With the season’s end comes the end of Seattle’s time in the limelight. The bulk of Season 2, which put the zombies in the backseat and followed a quest for vengeance for the brutal murder of Pedro Pascal that led two characters (one new, one old) into the heart of the Emerald City. This Seattle is not our Seattle. Earlier episodes even made us consider that this alternate universe Seattle may have been better than the Seattle we know and love. Now that we have witnessed all of what The Last of Us thinks of our home on Puget Sound, we think it’s pretty clear—they don’t get us at all.

Let’s dive into it.

(If you don’t want spoilers, don’t read this.)

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