The excellent news about this week’s The Final of Us: we meet a number of completely satisfied characters, and for as soon as, none of them die! The unhealthy information? It simply could be the final of Joel.
Whether or not he’s nonetheless alive or not, Joel’s present outlook is grim, primarily based on the ending of “Kin,” written by Final of Us creator Craig Mazin and directed by Jasmila Žbanić. That includes a laundry checklist of scenes ripped straight from Neil Druckmann’s online game of the identical title, The Final of Us episode six places Joel and Ellie nearer to their finish objectives than ever earlier than whereas additionally clarifying what really issues to each of those individuals — simply in time to stay a knife in that hard-earned lesson’s intestine.
The motion picks up three months after “Endure and Survive.” Whereas Joel and Ellie have put time and area between themselves and Kansas Metropolis, the deaths of Henry and Sam (Lamar Johnson and Keivonn Montreal Woodard) nonetheless dwell rent-free of their heads. In the meantime, their straightforward shorthand and relaxed attitudes clarify that tthese unlikely companions are rising nearer, whether or not they prefer it or not.
Joel and Ellie’s mission to reunite with Joel’s brother, Tommy (Gabriel Luna), takes them deep into the mountains of Wyoming. They maintain a fortunately married couple at gunpoint, basically hijacking them for instructions. The difficulty rolls off the couple’s backs like rain, making gentle of Joel and Ellie’s determined scenario. When it turns into clear that nobody on this foursome needs hurt on another, the couple affords up a useful tip: don’t go west, or else court docket loss of life. Only one downside: Tommy’s out west. So, west they go.
Within the night time, Joel and Ellie camp out below the celebrities, staying up late, dreaming in regards to the future. Joel desires to retire and herd sheep. Ellie desires to be the subsequent Sally Journey. In time, they each need relaxation.
“Get some sleep,” Joel tells Ellie. “Dream of sheep ranches on the moon.”
Morning comes, and Ellie lets Joel sleep in. He’s mad about it however cools down when Ellie talks him by the uneventful night time shift. It’s akin to Joel’s daughter making a giant deal out of his birthday some 20 years earlier, whether or not he needed a giant birthday or not. However Ellie isn’t Sarah, as he’s all too painfully conscious.
Wandering by the wilderness, Joel and Ellie come upon civilization virtually by chance, as they encounter a bunch of survivors who simply so occur to know Tommy. One among them is married to him: Marie, performed by HBO veteran Rutina Wesley. The erstwhile Tara Thornton is a great distance from Bon Temps, however nonetheless proper at dwelling within the close-knit group of Jackson, Wyoming.
Jackson is a beacon of sunshine in the midst of the Mushroom Kingdom, which has tons of individuals, working electrical energy, operational film theaters, and numerous different creature comforts. Most significantly, it has Tommy. Joel’s reunion together with his brother is an emotional one, because the usually steely soldier’s voice catches in his throat, the phrase “Tommy!” barely escaping. For the primary time in months — years, even — Joel has a semblance of his outdated life once more.
But it surely finally ends up being a sophisticated day for our heroes. For Ellie, it’s an opportunity to see what the world appeared like earlier than it ended. She will get a heat meal, among the many greatest she’s ever had. She will get a haircut, a number of of them, actually. She goes to the films and catches an Oscar-winning efficiency from Richard Dreyfuss. Most significantly, she learns about Sarah, Joel’s daughter, who looms giant over the entire day.
