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The Last Of Us Season 2 Review (Episode 1): Craig Mazin and Neil Druckman are cooking a storm and we must be prepared for what is to come.
Last Updated: 07.30 AM, Apr 14, 2025
The Last Of Us Season 2 Review (Episode 1): Story: Five years have passed since the events of the first season. Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) now stay in a fenced camp in Jackson, Wyoming, where they have set up a colony of the living and uninfected. The infected still roam outside the boundaries of the camp freely, and there is a hint that they might have developed survival skills too. Joel is getting older and is scared for Ellie, while he is making sure to accommodate as many as he can of the living in the camp. Ellie is now a wild young lady who wants to take no orders. But wait, is that Abby (Kaitlyn Dever)? She makes her way to the show with one intention—to kill Joel.
The Last Of Us Season 2 Review (Episode 1):
The day is finally here, fam! It has been nothing less than a herculean task to wait for the new season of The Last Of Us, that had us held by chokehold for ten episodes in the first season that landed on streaming in 2023. The world was just out of a pandemic, and watching a story about a dystopian one made them invest their complete time in the show. The fact that the makers pulled off their A-game by casting Pedro (Internet's Daddy) Pascal and Bella (Hail Lady Mormont) Ramsey to play the leading parts became a massive highlight. The show worked because it was among the best television had ever offered and was soon commissioned for a second season. The Last Of Us Season 2 premieres today with the first episode, and we are now curious whether it lives up to the anticipation or not.
Adapted from a game by the same name, The Last Of Us Season 2 is created by Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) and Neil Druckman (also the creator of the games). Season 2 meets us five years from the day we last saw Joel and Ellie as they managed to save each other. So now life is completely new. They have blended themselves into a new ecosystem. Joel is getting old, Ellie is growing up, and so is the world where, beyond the fence, there live the dead—the infected.
Episode one of the second season is a reminder of what Mazin is best at: creating characters and growing them through conflict. The conflict in The Last Of Us 2 has been one of the most deadly in the world of television, and the tension continues.
As the almost hour-long episode of The Last Of Us Season 2 progresses, all a viewer can think of is the tension that is always lurking around. And the fact that how Craig and his team on absolutely controlled writers later tension with more tension. Of course, the infected are the biggest problem, but then there is lack of space and resources in the camp for living, the fight to stay alive, Ellie growing up into a brat who feels the world is against her, and so much more. Something has distressed Ellie and Joel’s relationship, and we do not know what that exactly is.
To this, the biggest tension is already introduced—Abby (the gamers know what I mean). However, there is no secret for the non-gamers too because the makers have killed the biggest twist right in the first 5 minutes of the new season. You read that right. To give you a perspective, in the games, it is never revealed that Abby enters the world with the intention of killing Joel until the point she makes the move; a player is taken aback by the twist. But the show has taken a different route and confirmed that Abby wants to kill Joel in the first scene itself. We cannot calculate how this affects the show at large right now, but maybe the makers have changed a lot more and might also change the BIGGEST TWIST.
However, there is so much going on in The Last Of Us Season 2 Episode 1 that it will be tough to keep track by one point. But the best part is how the show never leaves its USP and takes you back to the reminder of what awaits on the other side in the final scene while confirming it is not really on the other side anymore. The season is only getting better after this.
The Last Of Us Season 2 Review (Episode 1): Final Verdict
The Last Of Us Season 2 has started on a very balanced note where it has explained the entire conflict and laid the map. The entire season now depends on how things unfold—and Craig Mazin and Neil Druckman, we trust.
The Last Of Us Season 2 premieres on April 14, 2025, in India and will air seven episodes till May 26, 2025. Stay tuned to OTTplay for more information on this and everything else from the world of streaming and films.