While you’re completed crying your eyes out, we thought it is likely to be a superb time to speak concerning the newest episode of The Last of Us. The penultimate sixth episode was simply launched on HBO, and it was unimaginable. We’ll have our full, conventional recap on Monday, however we needed to give everybody a spot to commiserate and focus on it earlier than that, with full spoilers unleashed.

On this week’s episode, known as “The Value,” we lastly acquired to see Ellie’s birthday reward, the unforgettable flashback scene from The Last of Us Half II. And, from the watchful eye of franchise creator and episode director Neil Druckmann, it lived as much as its predecessor. However constructing off that, the episode took issues many steps additional, creating scenes particularly made for the present, resembling Ellie’s birthdays earlier than and after the one on the museum.

Then, finally, issues caught as much as the timeline of the present, catching up with the primary episode of season two and revealing that earlier than Joel died, Ellie came upon. She lastly came upon that Joel killed everybody on the Salt Lake Metropolis hospital in a egocentric act to avoid wasting her life, sacrificing the lives of, properly, the world. Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey completely murdered the scene—no pun meant—as after years of rigidity, Joel and Ellie lastly come clear and conform to forgive.

Which, of course, we now know from the present, is mainly the final time they ever spoke. It’s a heavy, heavy episode and that’s earlier than you discuss the entire storyline involving Eugene, performed by Joe Pantoliano, in addition to that first flashback of younger Joel and Tommy with their father, performed by Hawkeye star Tony Dalton.

So, under, be happy to debate the episode nonetheless you see match. Did it reside as much as your expectations when you performed the sport? In case you haven’t, what did you assume? Once more, we’ll have a full, detailed recap and response Monday morning—however, for now, focus on “The Value” under.

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