Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-13 (Sunday)

On 4/14/2025 6:28 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

Apr 14, 2025 1:45:51 PM PDT, Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>:

 

The Last of Us (HBO) - "Future Days" - Season 2, episode 1.  Things pick
up with Joel and Ellie now living in Wyoming and Ellie being annoying.
This feels like a show I could dump pretty easily and not miss.

 

For me, it's all about Ellie. She really kills the show for me. And it's not
the character, it's the actress. She's just off-putting to me for some reason.
Same show with a different lead and I'd like it a *lot* more.

 

I suspect you're right.

And because it's been so long between seasons, I've completely forgotten what
Joel lied to her about.

 At the hospital in the season finale, didn't they need her brain to make
the cure? I forgot what he told her.
 Didn't Joel kill 30 people or so escaping?

Something like that, yes.  He had to chose between saving the human species or Ellie and he picked Ellie.  Then he lied to her and said there was no cure or something like that.