Everyone will think about this finale a little differently, but we're mainly glad that we got to see the way the writing, along with Pascal and Ramsey, brought these characters and this story to life. It's hard to think too much about what's right or what's wrong, and that's by the design of The Last of Us co-showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, who may have saved their master stroke for last. And opinions will be had, takes will be made, and people will feel strongly one way or the other. We'll be talking and thinking for a long time about what Joel did in that hospital, and we'll be talking and thinking for a long time about what he told Ellie after it all went down. But the finale gives us another kind of trouble: a debate. The Last of Us has been a show where nearly every episode has come to some kind of upsetting, tragic, frightening, or otherwise devastating conclusion. And that messy start to a story came to a predictably messy conclusion. From the very start, we saw two figures: a man who didn't quite know how to connect with his own daughter even before losing her and the world coming to an end, and a teenage girl born after the end of the world who never even knew what a properly-functioning world was like, letalone her own place within it. This story of Joel and Ellie was never going to have a simple-letalone happy-ending. should probably have been watching some other show from the get-go. The Last of Us stuck us with Joel ( Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Ramsey) for the full duration of it's nine-episode cross-country first season journey, and anyone who was expecting this show, of all shows, to end with some sort of feel-good catharsis. IT WASN'T long ago that Bella Ramsey, who plays Ellie on The Last of Us, told Vogue that the hit HBO show's finale would divide audiences "massively- massively." And, well, now that we've seen that finale, we can see where she's coming from. The following story contains spoilers for The Last of Us Season 1, Episode 9.
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