Warning: This article contains major spoilers for The Last of Us season two episode two.<\/p>\n
The second episode of The Last of Us season two, titled \u201cEye for an Eye,\u201d witnessed a moment fans of the video game have been dreading.<\/p>\n
The latest season is based on The Last of Us Part II, the acclaimed sequel to the original PlayStation game.<\/p>\n
Viewers were introduced to Kaitlyn Dever\u2019s character Abby in episode one and her desire to kill Joel (Pedro Pascal) \u201cslowly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joel was responsible for the death of her father, the Firefly surgeon who was about to operate on Ellie (Bella Ramsey) to create a cure for the Cordyceps infection.<\/p>\n
Fans of the video games knew that Joel met a gruesome end, with Abby brutally bashing his head in with a golf club as Ellie watched.<\/p>\n
Pedro Pascal\u2019s Joel saves Kaitlyn Dever\u2019s Abby in \u2018The Last of Us\u2019 season two (Liane Hentscher\/HBO)On Sunday, that moment in the series adaptation finally arrived \u2014 though it differed slightly from the video game version.<\/p>\n
On X, fans of the show expressed their devastation at the moment Pascal\u2019s fan-favorite character met his grisly fate.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is actually 10x worse than i thought it would be,\u201d one person wrote.<\/p>\n
The Last of Us reaction on X (X)\u201cJUST STOP ABBY LET JOEL LIVE,\u201d begged another.<\/p>\n
The Last of Us reaction on X (X)\u201cEven knowing this would happen still got me like,\u201d added a third alongside a GIF of a child screaming.<\/p>\n
The Last of Us reaction on X (X)\u201cMe trying to save Joel,\u201d wrote a fourth alongside a video of a man lunging at his TV.<\/p>\n
The Last of Us reaction on X (X)\u201cGenuinely was distraught, entire body was shaking, throughout this entire episode,\u201d wrote a fifth.<\/p>\n
Joel\u2019s death now sets up the major storyline for season two: Ellie\u2019s quest for revenge.<\/p>\n
Dever\u2019s character is presented slightly more sympathetically in the series than in the game, with Abby given new dialogue justifying her actions and discussing her moral code.<\/p>\n
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Joel\u2019s eventual execution is also slightly altered from the game, with Abby sticking the point of a broken golf club directly into Joel’s head, rather than beating him to death.<\/p>\n
Season two of The Last of Us also stars Gabriel Luna as Tommy, Rutina Wesley as Maria, Isabela Merced as Dina, Young Mazino as Jesse, Ariela Barer as Mel, Tati Gabrielle as Nora, Spencer Lord as Owen, Danny Ramirez as Manny, and Jeffrey Wright as Isaac. Catherine O\u2019Hara guest stars. <\/p>\n
In a four-star review of the season, The Independent\u2019s Nick Hilton wrote: \u201cIs The Last of Us a great TV show or just a great adaptation of a video game? In truth, it sits somewhere between these positions. Its origins are an unspoken constraint but showrunner Craig Mazin (and Neil Druckmann, the architect of the game, who co-creates this adaptation) have done a fine job translating for the screen. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe world has ended over and over, on screens big and small, but it has rarely been as plausible \u2013 or compelling \u2013 as the barbaric wasteland in the second season of The Last of Us.\u201d<\/p>\n
New episodes air Sundays at 9pm ET on Max in the U.S. and Sky Atlantic and NOW every Monday at 2am BST in the U.K.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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