Spoilers beneath for anybody who hasn’t caught up on The Final of Us Season 2 on HBO or with a Max subscription.
To be anticipated, The Final of Us has given its fanatic fanbase rather a lot to consider and mourn over in its second season up to now, together with one of the crucial glee-pummeling TV deaths I can consider. Fortunately, Joel’s absence via the center episodes — save for that emotionally uplifting Episode 5 look — has been buoyed by the lovable relationship constructing between Ellie and Dina, with Isabela Merced successful my coronary heart each second she’s on the display screen.
For all of Merced’s intelligence, heat, humor and charisma as Dina — elements that make it straightforward to grasp why Ellie can be head over heels — I’m of two minds about how prepared I’m to disregard what is probably The Final of Us’ greatest leap in on a regular basis logic, if not the most important leap of something on the 2025 TV schedule: Dina’s hair is at all times slightly too good to be actual on this post-apocalyptic setting. And yeah, I’m jealous, however my reasoning continues to be legitimate nonetheless.
I Can Perceive Dina Having Good Hair Inside The Comforts Of Jackson
Whereas I am unable to lay declare to understanding all of the ins and outs of The Final of Us‘ live-action neighborhood inside Jackson, Wyoming, I really feel snug assuming that Dina and Ellie each have entry to useful bathing apparatuses, seemingly with some form of shampoo and conditioner, ir not different hair merchandise. I am not saying they’ve full salon-ready inventories of product, however shampoo and conditioner are certain the sorts of creature comforts that also really feel extra smart than extra excessive types of hygenic luxurious.
As such, when Isabela Merced was rocking her good ‘do within the Season 2 premiere on the dance with Ellie, I did not give it a second thought, due to course she’s going to attempt to look her greatest on such a joyous social event. However do they make a degree of hanging out close to Jackson’s showering holes? In fact not.
Dina And Ellie Went By Subway Scares And A Large Storm Lengthy After Leaving Jackson In “Day One”
As somebody who has boasted pretty lengthy hair for greater than half of my life, I am fairly eager on what is going to and will not trigger chaos for it in between washings. Tense conditions that trigger one to sweat rather a lot? These are undoubtedly within the “Will Trigger Ickiness” folder. Plus, I have never even felt the distinct anxiousness that comes with being chased by fungi monsters and believing my new love will quickly be part of the monstrous herd, no less than on the time of this writing. (Good luck, future Nick!)
So it appears virtually insultingly unimaginable that the proficient Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann need me to imagine that Dina made it from Jackson to Seattle with none noticable downgrade in quantity or waves smoothness? Come on! Even when she and Ellie hadn’t handled any super-hectic conditions past the subway terror, they went via it in that episode, and nonetheless no change? That is the dream, not the truth.
I will even permit for this rationalization: Dina’s hair would have regarded like shit after avoiding underground peril if not for that vast rainstorm that washed all of the sweatiness out. However provided that it was constructed into the present’s actuality that Dina went to sleep with knotty-ass hair after which awakened with an much more scraggly mop on prime of her head.
Wait, Dina By some means Woke Up With Completely Maneuverable Hair, Regardless of All The Rain, Stress, Intercourse And Sleep?!?
I can at all times recognize the usage of a ponytail holder in occasions of want (of shampoo), and after a full night time of mayhem, panic, confessions and sexy-time? I imply, that valuable rubber band may be the important thing to avoiding a complete calamity on prime of 1’s head.
However provided that the potential for a calamity exists within the first place. As seen above, Dina virtually undoubtedly did not tie her hair again as a manner of retaining any gunky follicles out of sight and out of thoughts. It was like much more a difficulty of her hair being so silky and glossy that mild bounces off of it when it hangs in her face, making it tougher to learn the maps.
Which might nonetheless be all good IF appearances had been deceiving, and IF Dina was truly retaining a real wasp’s nest hidden along with her up-do.
Dina’s Hair Remained Enviously Voluminous All through Day 2
How in… The place the… [Blinks rapidly.]
Dina’s highly effective backstory admission in “Really feel Her Love” made for fairly the highly effective scene, particularly when it comes to the way it may have an effect on the 2 characters’ endgame in relation to the supply materials. And I used to be undoubtedly hooked into every part she was saying about being such a younger youngster when she occurred upon her murdered household and their killer, and the way she immediately rectified the stranger’s heinous acts. It makes her bubbly positivity all of the extra lovable.
On the similar time Dina is bearing her soul and her crosses, nonetheless, I am considering to myself, “I believe Isabela Merced might simply get awards buzz for this position.” And that quickly turned, “If she needed to current or settle for an award and went on stage with hair much like Dina’s throughout this scene, I may not even discover immediately.” Which is probably not a most popular thought tangent throughout a monologue about child justice.
Clearly I am not truly upset and even genuinely baffled by Dina’s hair staying so beautiful regardless of an absence of standard brushing marathons. We’re not supposed to consider how Dina and Ellie get all of the blood and gutsy bits out of their hair and garments in between sequences, nor why the array of pungent odors is not a daily matter of dialog. It is TV.
Or slightly: it is not TV; it is HBO. (However not HBO Max, since that is nonetheless coming again.)
I like the second in a present like this the place characters who haven’t skilled working services in ages are allowed the solace of a well-deserved scorching tub. (Always remember the day when Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes shaved his bushy beard on The Strolling Lifeless.) However they should seem like hell first with a view to make it depend.
It does not seem like we’ll be seeing a lot of present-day Dina within the sixth episode of Season 2, given it will be flashback-oriented, however everybody place your bets relating to how Dina’s hair will look within the finale, which is able to air on HBO on Sunday, Could 25.