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The Last of Us Enters Perilous Territory
Season two’s cliffhanger, lifted directly from the game, will be trickier for the TV adaptation to pull off.
At the end of “Convergence,” the second-season finale of HBO’s adaptation of the Naughty Dog franchise, Abby ( Kaitlyn Dever) gets the jump on the Jackson crew in an abandoned Seattle theater. In a swift sequence, Jesse (Young Mizuno) is shot in the face as he barrels into the room where Abby is holding Tommy (Gabriel Luna) at gunpoint, and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) is finally confronted with the consequences of her desire to avenge Joel (Pedro Pascal). The twist of the perspective shift is designed to feed a primary theme that Neil Druckmann, who co-directed the game and serves as showrunner for the HBO version alongside Craig Mazin, has framed Part II as being about: tribalism, or the varying sense of who is seen as an enemy or as a person.
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