Last of us: Our criticism of the 2nd season, without guaranteed spoilers!

The glory of criticism and society, when it came out in 2023, the last successful season adapted to the video game of the same name, developed by the Naughty Dog, a true phenomenon.

Neil Drukman (also the creator of the creative game) and CraG Mazin show businesses have transferred Joel and Eli’s popular history, encamped by Pedro Pascal and Bella Rams, as broad as the video games are wider.

After two years of waiting, fans will eventually be able to discover The Last of us, which adapts part of the second video game, sober authorized Last of us: Part II.

New characters, new challenges and new dramas … What did we think of this season’s 2nd season that we have fully seen? Here is our opinion, without guaranteed spoilers.

Intense and dark season 2

If you have already wrapped and wrap the intestines during the first season of the last season, you are not at the end of your sorrow in the second season. Those who played the game know that the experience will be much darker and more intense than in 1 season.

This is the result of a tragic result, at the end of the first season, where Joel relieves fireflies, who were going to operate on Eli, the virus immune and “alone” hoping to save humanity, which allows the vaccine to create.

In addition to the operation of Elijah and Joel, who was still the death of his own daughter Sari, he could not decide to lose their virginity. But each choice has its results and the price can be fatal.

With the events discussed in the last season of the second season, the public will have no other choice than to question his predetermined principles and ideas about certain characters and certain aspects of this rich world, so paradoxically and especially sincere.

“We hope that society will live with the emotional roller with these characters that are precious to him because we love them so much and that he will see that these themes grow on the surface, study how much they can cause.”Said Neil Drukman.

Because this season 2 offers a new point of view and extracts from its manicure relationship before surviving essential questions: Are we evil of other lives? What are the consequences of our choice? What to do when you lose your loved one? Revenge is the solution?

The seven episodes offer the first elements of the answer but also leave a lot of items because it is just part of Last of us: Part II Which is suitable. But they are already enough to identify the outline of the new world, where cruelty, solidarity, life, death, hope and frustration were chosen.

Necessary and smart changes

Game fans are really wondering whether the last season 2 is going to be the 2nd season 2, the narrative framework Last of us: Part II. The answer is yes … and no.

The main events of the first part of the first part of the second part (mostly tragic but also great sensitivity moments and eyes) are given in Season 2, with certain characters, known or unpublished, which enhances the cruel and dramatic tone of the episodes.

First of all, Neil Drukman and CraG Mazin faced this new adaptation to the script gymnast, as the game features various temporary and flashbacks.

And this modification of the terms was necessary, as the participation of a player or player who is in thanks to the gameplay, and the long -term distilled kinematics and information, are very different from the viewer or viewer who needs more limited time in a limited time.

“We know that gameplay plays an important role in playing experience and that someone in place is a very important experience. For television, it’s different. We do not have this restriction. We can freely do a little differently“Craig Mazin told us.

We can ask whether there were significant changes to the screenwriters in the second season of the second season, as well as the first season’s criticism, but also the opposite and contradictions in the second video game to better prepare a field for new characters and especially for the future.

And even if some choices are quite bold, they are still organic and are quite smart. Because they do not change the emotional meaning of the job and they must be convinced that the public is further involved in the showers worn on the road.

Throughout the season 2, it is much more framed and thoughtful as a television object than the first season, which was quite a software, even very successful. It is a tour that you have to do even better in the season 2, even if it is necessary to recognize that the main material in the second game is much richer and more complex than the first one helps.

The cruelty and emotion of the characters

Despite the criticism that listened here and there, the last of us, which was the subject of many fancasting campaigns when it was introduced into production, the second season reiterates that these actors and actors are the right choice of roles.

Bella Rams’s Mutin and toy air leaves more space for a definite and dark mine. The 21 -year -old actress prefers this second season and shows the size of her talent in all aspects of Eli, still between the childish soul and the gross reality of adult life.

With the necessary strength and simply sensitivity, Bella Rams argues for those who are still noticing that it is perfect for this role and that she is going to become one of the most important heroin on the small screen.

His “partner crime” Pedro Pascal should not be overcome. Even if the actress has become an indisputable star that has nothing to prove, she once again serves a play, a sensitive and sensitive exception that has difficulty from the toxic scheme of violence and emotional restraint.

We can obviously not forget about the Caitlin Diver, who has been present several times in the second season, but who already continues to continue the tone, and those who suspect that he knew how to fit the character, his career, his pain and his strength.

We also mention Isabella Mercedes playful and impeccable partitions in Dinah and Catherine O’Hara’s skin, which embodies the unprecedented nature of the PSY Gail, a corresponding addition that accompanies the community in its reflection and almost as a universal therapist.

This is undoubtedly due to the distribution of this caliber that the last season 2 season 2 is subject to a huge adaptation project. In addition to the casting performance, we also maintain the enormous quality and beauty of sets and visual effects, the mastery of intimate erection, and as close as possible, Gustavo Santaolala’s still signed music and emotion and melancholy.

In this brilliant and moving, but, above all, the more intense and more brutal season 2 season 2, both in the interaction between the characters, as well as against enemies and infected scenes (much more to date), the latter confirms its status as a series phenomenon and its printing.

If the choice of scenario is bold, but understandable, we are clearly found in 2 emotional and violent snowstorms this season, already marked by memorable episodes, such as the second (grand) or the sixth (heartbreaking), to the extremely bold final that chooses the community and which it already trusts for the season.

“When violence is against you or for a loved one, how ready are you to go to justice for a loved one? These are the things we want to study through the drama, the action, but also through this story that is beautifully spoken throughout the season.Finished Neil Drukman in our microphone.

The good news, the series that the last of us has renewed for the 3 seasons of the season, even before the second season broadcaster is essential, as it will undoubtedly take the third season, even the fourth, so that the magic acts entirely and that the whole history is truly understandable.

Interview by Mégane Choquet on March 24, 2025.

The first episode of the “The Last of Us” is available on April 14 on the Max Platform. The next six episodes will be posted online at one episode rate until May 26.