The Last Of Us

Warning : This article carry spoilers forThe Last of Usseason 2 , episode 1 , and balmy spoiler forThe Last of Us Part II .

There are some central moments inThe Last of Us’season 2 premiere that might not seem too important now , but viewers who did n’t wager the video plot should pay tending to and remember . The Last of Usseason 2 , sequence 1 , “ Future day , ” foot up five age after the season 1 finis . Joel and Ellie are to the full settled into their new home in Jackson , Wyoming , and a radical of surviving Fireflies with a grudge are coming to take revenge . The installment deviates wildly from the video game , but the serial is still telling the same story at its core .

Some scenes in the time of year 2 premiere are rip directly from the game , likeEllie and Dina ’s sweep of a prowler - infested supermarketand the New Year ’s Eve party at Jackson , where Dina snog Ellie for the first time . The season get going off pretty slow , but it has a lot of important patch point to place up — and this installment is all setup . Since all the significant exposition is ingeniously buried in naturalistic dialogue between the characters , it can be punishing to tell which data is the most important without knowing where the taradiddle is going . So , I ’m here to help .

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6Dina’s History With Jesse

Jesse And Dina Had A Long, On-And-Off Romance

Although the season premiere establishesa really heartwarming romanticism between Ellie and Dina , it also introduces their ex . Dina ’s X - boyfriend , Jesse , is the leader of all the patrols , and Ellie ’s ex - girlfriend , Kat , is the leader of their particular patrol . Kat is mentioned in dialogue and journal entranceway in the plot — and she appears in one of the “ lose levels ” on the PS5 remaster — but she never actually shows up on - screen . Jesse , on the other mitt , has a major role inThe Last of Us Part II , and his amatory history with Dina is a handsome part of it .

In the game , when Jesse and Dina are in a room together , Ellie awkwardly leaves , because she feels like she ’s getting in the way .

As Ellie starts her relationship with Dina , Dina ’s long - tolerate intimacy and emotional connection with Jesse makes her insecure and jealous . In the secret plan , when Jesse and Dina are in a room together , Ellie awkwardly provide , because she feels like she ’s getting in the mode . Jesse and Dina have had a long , on - and - off romance that ’s officially over now , butthat relationship will still have massive ramifications on the story pop off forth , so do n’t draw a blank about it .

Collage of Abby and Joel in The Last of Us season 2

5Tommy’s Sharpshooting Skills

A Jaw-Dropping Moment Will Come In The Future

early on on in the season premiere , Tommy is visit giving Ellie a sharpshooting lesson with his sniper rifle , teach her how to clean off stray infected from afar . This is very similar to a succession from the biz that appear as a flashback halfway through Ellie ’s playable risky venture . There are even a few occupation lifted straight from that stretchability of the game , like Tommy ’s advice to compensate for the bullet drop . The most important thing to take away from this episode is thatTommy is a really good shot who knows his way around a tenacious - cooking stove firearm .

There ’s a sequence coming up that will put Tommy ’s sharpshoot acquirement to good utilisation . It does n’t pass until really far into the biz , so the idiot box show probably wo n’t get around to adapting it until season 3 ( if at all ) . But it ’s a jaw - dropping moment in the game , sojust recall that Tommy is a gifted sniper . time of year 1 established that Tommy is a Gulf War veteran who wait on in Operation Desert Storm , which set up why he ’s such a not bad sharpshooter .

4Gail Mentions Her Husband, Eugene

He Was A Former Firefly Who Served With Tommy

The season 2 premiere introduces a new character who did n’t look in the game : Joel ’s healer Gail , played by Catherine O’Hara . She mentions her husband , Eugene , who also did n’t appear in the games , but was mentioned a few times . In the premier episode , Gail observe that she resents Joel for killing Eugene . It ’s implied thatJoel put Eugene down after he got infected , but it ’s also implied that Eugene ’s dying was suspicious , so that might not be the caseful after all .

The Last of Us season 2 premiere beats season 1 in terms of viewership , but still fall light of becoming HBO ’s overall record holder .

Joe Pantoliano has been throw to play Eugene in the show , so a future instalment will undoubtedly go back and show what Joel did to Eugene in a flashback . In the game , it ’s established that Eugene is shady , alone , an electronics expert , and a weed enthusiast . But most significantly , it ’s break that he’sa former Firefly who service with Tommy . That probably had something to do with why Joel toss off him .

Ellie Williams (Bella Ramsey) and Dina (Isabela Merced) each riding their own horse in The Last of Us Season 2 Ep 1

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3Joel Takes Ellie’s Guitar To Get New Strings

The Guitar Is A Symbol Of Their Bond

Joel and Ellie only share a match of abbreviated interactions in the time of year premiere , and they ’re all pretty heartbreaking . One of the subtlest second of brokenheartedness is when Joel stops by Ellie ’s garage for a sojourn and finds her guitar lying in a nap of junk on the floor , cover in rubble . He recount her the strings want to be replaced and promptly leaves to replace them for her . He does n’t want to show it , butEllie ’s neglect for this instrument devastates him . That guitar is a symbol of their bond , and she ’s abandon that symbol .

It ’s not exculpated from the scene in the premier episode , butJoel gave this guitar to Ellie and instruct her how to play it . allot toThe Last of Usseason 2 ’s trailer , we ’ll get to see this heartwarming moment in a flashback in a future episode . In the secret plan , it ’s one of the early scenes — it hap even before the time leap — and it ’s one of the most touching scenes . Remember that this guitar stand for a fortune to Joel , and prepare to hollo tears of joy when he reach it to her .

2Abby’s Moments With Owen

They Have A Long And Complicated History Together

In the plot , player do n’t discover out that Abby and her friends are surviving Fireflies until midway through the story , when it ’s discover in a flashback at a essential juncture . But the idiot box show impart it by upfront . In the second scene of the premier episode , Abby and her friends are determine grieving their loss as they bury the dead Fireflies outside St. Mary ’s Hospital . While the others are focused on find a new home , Abby vows to kill Joel slowlyto make him give for killing all their friends and colleagues .

Pay tight tending to their interactions , because Abby and Owen have a long and complicated account together that the serial will dig into .

Abby is close with all her friends here , butshe ’s shown to have an particularly skinny James Bond with one of them in peculiar : Owen , played by Spencer Lord . Owen is the one who talks Abby down and reaches a compromise when she bank retribution , and he ’s the one she lock center with as they lastly arrive in Jackson at the end of the episode . compensate close attention to their interaction , because Abby and Owen have a long and complicated chronicle together that the series will dig out into .

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1Ellie Sees Joel On His Porch

We’ll See The Full Version Of This Interaction In The Future

At the New Year ’s Eve party , after Dina kisses Ellie , Seth makes a homophobic remark , prompt Joel to step in and give him a shove . Joel expects Ellie to give thanks him for saving her , but she just mother furious at him . Ellie has spent the whole instalment trying to get out of Joel ’s shadow , and he just put her back in it , so she tells him she does n’t need his assistance and he leave . Later that night , when Ellie hark back home , she sees Joel playing guitar on his porch , but she does n’t speak to him .

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There ’s a bit more to that fundamental interaction that the time of year 2 premiere leaves out . In the plot , we do n’t get to see the full version of that interaction until the very destruction , and it recontextualizes the intact epic tome that come before it . The Last of Us ’ tv set version might not wait that long to reveal the rest period of this scene , so keep it in head .

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The Last of Us is a post - apocalyptic drama series set two decades after a ball-shaped catastrophe . It follow Joel , a veteran survivor , who is task with escorting Ellie , a teenage young lady , across a ravage United States , transforming into a harrowing journeying of survival and companionship .

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