The Last of Us Season 2 Review: Resurrection Tension Fights with its own video game origins
What happens after the end of the world? That was your main problem Our endA breathtaking 2013 video game after a deadly pandema that leaves a terrain to the United States (very different from America we see today …). Adapted for the small screen in 2023 and A way to transform a beloved game into an exciting, touching TV show – a way for the hard action – a road track – a way. So what’s coming? How do you follow those who follow the end of the world? This is the task of Sky’s second season Our end.
Five years have passed since Joel (Pedro Pascal) has rescued Ellie (Bella Ramsey), the only person known to be immune to the Hell Kordyceps virus, from the clutches of militants who want to cut their brain and turn a vaccine. Since then, Joel, the actual leader of a community that developed when the world ended, Jackson made a life for Wyoming’s utopian police station. But not everything is as pink as it seems. Mushroom people are developing, and migrant waves are still washed on the extremely stretched walls of Jackson. “If our lifeguard boat is sunk, Jo Joel said to his lieutenant,” We leave them there. ” Managing this community is not Joel’s only or most difficult responsibility. This honor is increasingly falling into an act of playing a father to a younger young man.
When a violence carried out by mysterious Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) shakes Ellie from her adolescence, the series moves. This is a narrative of revenge in essence; Ellie and her best friend Dina (Isabela Merced), Abby and Fraction Washington Washington Liberation Front (or “Wolves”) in the search for a 600 -mile journey in Natural Idaho. “Happily proud of the town of Gökkuşağı is too much, Elli Ellie observes bravely entering Seattle. In the shell of the city, the mushroom enemies are at least the problems of Ellie and Dina. This is a “level” maze; Duo’s different obstacles to pursue Abby and justice. The show’s video game origins must re -evaluate themselves.
Both the success of Naughty Dog’s acclaimed video game series (although the tracking installment was accepted as “difficult second album), as well as the first part of the show was born from a vicious sense of realism. The nature of the virus and the disintegration of civilization – in some places fast, in others slowly – elegantly caught. The bond between Joel and Ellie was moving as much as any platonic relationship on television. The brutality of the world has not been lost in half a decade: the stupid immortal armies are still running to our heroes, and ruthless new groups emerge in the dark. As traveling comrades, cynical Ellie and Luminous Dina have a more romantic relationship, but this remains the dynamics of chalk and identity. “I was just trying to make a sound like a badass, Ellie says Ellie, after delivering a trademark Barb. “You don’t need to try, Dina says Dina.
Bella Ramsey – helps to confront the King of Night Cuting her teeth game of Thrones – Although he was not the most powerful fans of the game by critics, he was appreciated in Ellie roles. As usual, the critics are right. His characters developed here under Joel’s net learning, became harder, more stoical, and he did not lose anything from the line of innocence that instills them against moral collapse. The main additions to the cast of this season – Dever’s Abby, a broken spirit; Merced’s Dina, a Gregarious help; Jeffrey Wright’s Isaac, a Moutociociocous Psychopath – Pascal, even if it is largely disappeared, add depth from the main narrative. This well -drawn world and population is expanding beyond compelling heroes.
Perhaps it is a dream to imagine that a show of this scale and budget will be green without an existing IP. These origins are from time to time to drag a narrative. After all, in the game, you can die, die and die again, so every scenario involves definite death. Just reset and go again. But here, possibilities are surely in favor of our heroes forever. There is no saving score in a linear narrative. And still show, Sonuz Part IIAnd the expensive sky subscription is probably based on this fandom. And thus, the narrative emerges in a way that indebted to the welding environment more than the target type – always towards a reckoning through the discovery ways.
That Our end A great TV show or just a great adaptation of a video game? In fact, he sits somewhere between these positions. His origins are an unprocessed restriction, but Showrunner Craig Mazin (and the architect of the game Neil Druckmann did a good job for the screen that creates this adaptation together). The world has ended many times on large and small screens, but rarely reasonable – or compelling – as a barbarian land Our endThe second season.
‘End of the End’ season begins on Monday, April 14 at Sky and now
