The Last of Us - Season 2 - Max Series

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We watched season 1 a couple of years ago. Now we have almost finished watching season 2, and we have a scene that said something essential, so I gotta tell you about it. But first, let me lay the groundwork.

The Last of Us is set in the not too distant future after some kind of mutant fungus gets loose and starts infecting humans. The fungus colonizes human bodies and eventually kills them, but in the early stages of infection they become zombies, attacking, killing and eating healthy humans. Lovely. Anyway, this disaster has been going on for some time and most of humanity has died. The only ones who are still around are small groups of survivalists who have organized security forces (people with guns) to patrol their areas and killing any fungus people they encounter. Since a bite inevitably leads to infection, and we don't know how long it takes for the fungus to get control of their victim's body, immediate execution is the preferred course of action.

Our girl, Ellie, and our hero, Joel, are traveling around the country, walking mostly. They come across some survivors in Denver, Colorado, or maybe it's Boulder. They are captured and discover that Ellie is immune to the fungus. A doctor there want's to operate on Ellie's brain to extract something that be used to make a cure for this fungal infection. They might be able to make a cure, but the operation will kill Ellie. Joel, unsurprisingly, is opposed to this course of action. He is confined, but he manages to get loose and proceeds to kill everyone in the hospital, including the doctor, some 18 souls in all.

Joel and Ellie flee and end up in Jackson Hole Wyoming where they have make a comfortable home. Jackson Hole has apparently escaped destruction by the zombies and has been fenced in with a wooden stockade straight out of Fort Apache. 

One day Joel and Ellie are out on patrol and they are captured by a group of about six people who are from the same tribe as all the people Joel killed at the hospital. The leader, Abby, is the daughter of the doctor, and she exacts her revenge on Joel using a golf club to beat him to death. Ellie gets to watch this whole thing. At this point, Abby makes a mistake. Instead of killing Ellie outright, she lets her go.

Ellie goes back to Jackson Hole and stews. Eventually she builds up enough pressure and heads off to Seattle with her girlfriend, Dina. She is on a mission to kill Abby.

Eventually, Jesse, Dina's erstwhile boy friend, catches up with them, and just in the nick of time. The Seattle gang is well organized and the girls are detected before they have made it inside the gang's hideout. Jesse gets them out of the jam they are in.

Now we get to the point of this post. Jesse and Ellie have a discussion. Jesse is all about community, working together for their mutual benefit. Ellie is obsessed with killing Abby, she doesn't give a shit about anybody or anything else. Jesse says she is being selfish. Ellie doesn't care, come hell or high water, she is going to kill Abby. 

Abby basically did the same thing. She was bent on revenge and she traveled halfway across the continent to get it. However, she brought her gang with her. Ellie only brought her girlfriend, who is competent enough, but not a killing machine like Ellie.

Do I need to say it? I suppose I must. Things don't go well for our gang from Jackson Hole. I'm not sure if any of them survive. In the last scene Abby has the drop on Ellie. Abby fires and the screen goes black. So now you see what being a lone wolf bent on revenge gets you.

I think there is one more episode coming, so we shall see if anyone survives this encounter.