Pieces of my brain disintegrated into dust.
I can’t even unpack my feelings while watching this scene. Kathleen says her brother told her to forgive the people that turned him in, but Kathleen also looks directly at the camera and says, “I can’t forgive a deaf sick child, because I am the villain.” DO YOU GET IT? Perry comes in, and Kathleen begins to monologue about how this was her childhood bedroom, and she used to share it with her brother, and she was afraid of thunder but he made her not afraid of thunder and blah blah blah. Kathleen is standing in a weathered room, leaning against a wall and brooding. Then we get what is probably the worst scene of this show thus far. Henry then looks directly at the camera and says, “I am the bad guy because I did a bad guy thing,” and Pedro Pascal looks pensively at the audience and says, “Do you get it? Do you get the themes? Do you get it?”ĭO YOU GET IT ITS A PARALLEL DAMN IT DO YOU GET IT Are you getting the feeling that she’s maybe bad? So Kathleen is hunting and literally trying to kill a deaf 8-year-old leukemia survivor. Turns out Sam is not only an 8-year-old child and deaf, he also had leukemia that was only treatable by turning in Kathleen’s brother to FEDRA, since then FEDRA would give him the medicine. While Ellie and Sam play, Henry gets a chance to exposit his backstory. Sitting and chatting in one room does not create much dramatic tension or, in the end, dramatic satisfaction. And the four-second shot of a paper mentioning Ish was just insulting to players. However, I think this tension could have been built more if we’d seen the characters explore more of the tunnels. The fact that Henry was right is a subversion of that genre expectation and it does add to some tension in the story. Here, the classic horror expectation is that Henry is wrong and the tunnels are, in fact, very very haunted. We last talked about subverting expectations in episode two. Second, this is the kind of subversion of expectations that The Last of Us *may* be getting right at points. I would love to read input from deaf viewers on this, as they would have the best insight. Overall it seemed like good representation on screen. Indeed, Henry actively includes Sam in conversation, planning, and activities, and both Ellie and Joel learn to as well. Sam isn’t shoved off to the side or left out. First of all, kudos to The Last of Us writing team for including a deaf character and actually including him. Aw, that’s a nice friend you have there Ellie! Sure hope nothing happens to him 🙂Ī few things about these scenes. We’re given some lovely scenes of Ellie and Sam playing together.
They go there and, as it turns out, the tunnels are in fact 100% safe and not haunted. The group decides that teamwork makes the dreamwork, so they plan an escape together through the mysterious underground tunnels that are definitely, 100% safe and not haunted. And guess what? She kills more people in the process! Omg! Did you know she’s evil? Meanwhile, in case you forgot, Kathleen is still hunting Henry and Sam. The audience may recognize the old man as the doctor that Kathleen executed in the previous episode, so we all know where this is going. Henry (Brandon Scott) signs to his deaf brother, Sam (Keivonn Woodard), and they escape to hide in a nearby building with an old man. Our two temporary new mains are introduced hiding behind some debris and watching the chaos unfold. Here, the violence is used well: we get a few quick shots of violence, mostly assault and murder, which makes clear that the resistance fighters are no better than FEDRA. The use of violence on screen in a visual medium is important to judge because it is not always necessary, and ubiquitous violence can numb the audience in a bad way. People in the resistance are seen attacking and mutilating FEDRA soldiers. SPOILERS for the show through episode 5 and for the game through the content covered in episode 5 The Last of Us: Episode 5 “Endure and Survive” SummaryĪfter last week’s cliffhanger that left our mains, Joel and Ellie, held at gunpoint by two strangers, we start in Kansas City the night the QZ fell. Let’s get into the recap and explore this material! This episode brings back some core tenets of a zombie apocalypse story (A.K.A., the zombies!), but also introduces some questionable material from the video game. Welcome back to our continuing coverage of HBO’s new television series, The Last of Us, starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey.Ĭonsidering our four previous episodes with the addition of five, now halfway through the season, it’s fair to say this show is probably “good” in a general sense.
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