[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Last of Us Season 2, Episode 1.]
The Final of Us is again and establishing loads of mysteries to uncover as Season 2 launched the character Gail (Catherine O’Hara), Jackson’s resident therapist.
The function created for the collection brings some contemporary life into the storylines launched within the recreation The Final of Us Half II upon which the present is predicated, however as she tries serving to Joel (Pedro Pascal) address Ellie’s (Bella Ramsey) coldness in direction of him, she’s combating her personal anger in direction of the determine followers have come to know and love.
As Gail reveals within the Season 2 premiere, Joel shot and killed her husband, Eugene (who’s performed within the present by Joe Pantoliano). Whereas viewers haven’t met the character onscreen this season, his dying looms giant over Joel and Gail’s charged session. However who was Eugene?
We all know that Gail is celebrating her first birthday with out him for the primary time in 41 years, that means they have been collectively for fairly some time. And his dying couldn’t have been so unforgivable that Gail is ready to stand up to sharing the identical house as Joel, nevertheless it needed to have been dangerous sufficient to make her lash out.
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“The thought of Gail as this therapist got here earlier than we tied her again to Eugene,” Neil Druckmann revealed within the premiere episode’s aftershow featurette. “Eugene is that this character that we really feel his presence, however he’s already lifeless by the point we hear about him within the online game. So it felt like that was a personality ripe to use ultimately on this present.”
Within the recreation, Eugene is a patrolman who previously labored with the Fireflies and died of outdated age. Whereas it’s clear that he didn’t die of outdated age with Joel killing him, it stays to be seen whether or not or not the opposite details about Eugene from the sport will probably be true onscreen.
As talked about above, it’s clearly a sore topic with Gail, and the birthday point out reveals that Eugene’s dying solely occurred throughout the span of the previous yr, leaving feelings uncooked. “She’s misplaced her endurance with him, and I believe the alcohol’s given her a bit of extra nerve,” O’Hara stated of Gail’s demeanor towards Joel of their premiere episode session. “She’s mad and he or she’s been holding it in, I suppose, in another classes, however what’s the purpose? Let it out.”
Solely time will inform what occurred to Eugene, however we’ve got a sneaking suspicion we’ll study extra as Season 2 unfolds. What do you assume occurred to Gail’s husband that precipitated Joel to shoot him? Pontificate within the feedback part beneath, and keep tuned to search out out.
The Final of Us, Season 2, Sundays, 9/8c, HBO and Max