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This article from Rolling Stone contains spoilers from this week’s episode The Last of Usnow available in Max.

The second season of The Last of Us It has been both more complicated and simpler. There are more recurring characters, among the group of Jackson and people in Seattle. And one’s own Cordyceps continues to evolve; This fifth episode puts Ellie and Dina Against a group of intelligent infected people who can work as a team and set up traps, as well as presenting a new fungus strain, which has become air and can infect people without direct contact. There are things we know and the characters do not, and others that we can only understand by clues or are totally understood only by the various factions of Seattle.

Still, the story of the season is so focused on a single goal of Ellie – A goal that seems more mistaken every week, especially in this – that all often seems more direct, and sometimes even more superficial, than the journey of Ellie and Joel by the country in the first season. The first season had the goal to take Ellie based on Vagalons In Salt Lake City, but there was room for deviations and stops. It is already entirely around Ellie and Dina seeking revenge against Abbywith the two most recent episodes going on in a single day. There are action scenes – this week, partners face a group of intelligent infections and escape from Serafitesfollowed by Ellie chasing daughter -in -law, the ally of AbbyBy a hospital – but in terms of the advance of the plot, little really happens.

Therefore, if you are not emotionally involved with the plot of revenge, there is not much to cling to an episode like this – at least even its final moments, which bring back Pedro Pascal in a glimpse of the life of Ellie with Joel before his murder.

Early on, Ellie reflects more on the pregnancy of Dina And finally seems to realize how terrible the decision to go to Seattle, and how stupid it is to stay there – not only because the two are excited about the idea of ​​raising a son together, but because the city was much more dangerous than they imagined when they leave Jackson. But when she shares her concern with Dina, Dina It tells the story of the first man who killed: a looter who massacred the rest of his family when she was only eight.

“Would it make any difference if my family had hurt his people first?” She asks, drawing a parallel with the situation of Ellie and Abby. “No. And if I had not killed him, if he had escaped, I swear to you, I would have hunted him forever. Forever.” She says she is up to Ellie decide whether to leave or stay. And despite desperately he is a father, Ellie can’t ride in Shimmer and return home. Then they continue on this stubborn and meaningless mission.

We see more of Wolves on their own, although, in this case, it is mainly to contextualize what happens when Ellie persecute Daughter -in -law through the hospital and they end up on a floor full of air infected with the air. This sequence presents some of the scariest and disgusting images of the series so far, with spores WOrdyceps floating in the air and leaving the mouth of the poor Wolves that were on that floor before realizing the nature of this new threat.

Still, we are mainly from the perspective of Ellie and DinaSo when they find intelligent infected or are almost captured and killed by Serafites, we are as dark as they . You Serafites They still look like something out of the most exaggerated seasons ofThe Walking Dead unfortunately. You Wolves They are a little better developed, but it seems that we are getting their wrong amount: not enough to look like real characters, besides being just cannon meat for the mission of revenge, but in a large number enough so that it does not look like we are totally immersed in the story of Ellie andDina

. In each situation, we are remembered that each half of the pair has a kind of superpower: Dina It has an extremely calculated hearing, so it can usually be aware of how many infected there are in a space and where they are approximately; while

Ellie It’s so small that you can hide in places where your persecutors simply can’t get in. Jesse It appears to rescue friends when they are about to be dominated by intelligent infected, in an event that seems too unlikely – even after he explains how he and Tommy tracked them. Having more characters means that the series, in theory, does not depend so much on a single person and when Ellie and

Joel They were the only ones who mattered. But now forced conveniences are necessary to maintain some of the new secondary figures on the scene in a story like this.When escaping from Serafites , Ellie You have the choice between going after Jesse and Dinaor continue to the hospital hoping to find Abby. She is still more concerned with the mission than with Dinathen, of course, goes to the hospital, where he finds only daughter -in -law, who feels bad that Ellie witnessed the death of Joel but not for the murder itself. When they end up walking with the infected air, Nora is amazed to realize that

Ellie It is immune – that she is “the immune girl” whose existence the wolves were unsure if it was real . This raises a question: Abby I knew Joel had killed his father and the others to protect this supposed immune girl, and saw Ellie on the floor of the house in Jackson screaming as if

Joel Were her father, how did she call the points? And considering how she reacted to the murder of her father, why the hell would leave Ellie alive? Daughter -in -law, already dying, tells the Ellie What Joel did in Salt Lake City, naively thinking that this will convince Ellie that they are right and will encourage her to leave the other friends of Daughter -in -law in peace. But we find out that Ellie I already knew – either because you realized when JoelHe lied for the first time or at some point in the next five years – and doesn’t care. She takes a pipe that is very reminiscent of a certain golf club and begins to torture

Daughter -in -law

with him to get the location of