[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Last of Us Season 2, Episode 6, “The Price.”]
The Final of Us continues to devastate with Season 2’s newest episode, “The Value,” which explores the years Ellie (Bella Ramsey) spent together with her late adoptive dad, Joel (Pedro Pascal).
When TV Insider caught up with Ramsey previous to Season 2’s arrival, we requested about taking pictures their ultimate seasons with Pascal. Whereas Ramsey couldn’t say a lot on the time, they defined, “We get to see a whole lot of their relationship… There are some very emotional scenes between them, and I feel that they’re, at some factors this season, weak with one another once more for the primary time.”
Monitoring a number of birthdays of Ellie’s over time in Jackson, the episode explored her and Joel’s evolving relationship and supreme fracture main as much as their ultimate days collectively. Ramsey loved digging deeper into Ellie’s character because the episode reveals the character’s love for data, easy joys, tattoos, relationship preferences, and way more.
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“It’s very nice to simply see her current and waking up within the morning and going to mattress and ingesting an excessive amount of on the New Yr’s Eve get together after which having to cope with the consequences of that,” Ramsey shared. “She is rather like an older teenager dwelling in an apocalyptic world that she didn’t ask for and it’s very nice to to see that behind all of the heroes of the story, there are simply people, and it’s very nice to have the house to see {that a} bit extra throughout the context of Jackson.”
Whereas Ellie is presently exterior of that group on a mission to avenge Joel’s demise, these flashbacks to the years in between Season 1’s ending and now open up a complete new world of context. As viewers noticed, Joel and Ellie had been in the end pushed aside by his lie concerning the Fireflies, which she may now not ignore when he primarily mirrored that motion by killing therapist Gail’s (Catherine O’Hara) contaminated husband Eugene (Joe Pantoliano) in opposition to his needs to return to Jackson for a ultimate goodbye.
However their relationship was on its approach to making a turning level after the New Yr’s Eve get together, when Ellie confronted Joel concerning the Fireflies and confessed she needed to attempt to forgive him. The tragedy is that they’d by no means get to discover that, as he died the following day by the hands of WLF soldier Abby (Kaitlyn Dever).
What did you consider the emotional farewell to Pascal’s Joel in Season 2’s sixth installment? Tell us within the feedback part under, and don’t miss the finale when it arrives on Might 25.
The Final of Us, Season 2, Sundays, 9/8c, HBO and HBO Max