.alexbarasch writes about the divisive ending of “The Last of Us.”
When Craig Mazin sold “The Last of Us” to HBO, he described it as “a love story about how love makes people do terrible things.” In the course of the show’s first season, which concluded Sunday night, Joel and Ellie encounter a panoply of desperate, compromised characters on their trek across a post-apocalyptic America.
Viewers have already begun to express a similar discomfort. Some flinched at the penultimate episode, in which Ellie is held captive by a preacher-turned-cannibal named David , prompting Joel to torture and kill two of David’s followers in an attempt to find her. The acts are nauseating and gratuitous—but they track with the person we’ve caught glimpses of throughout the season.
Part of what makes The Last of Us gripping is the gradual revelation of the type of man you’ve been playing—and the way you’ve become inured to it until the jolt of that final, selfish act. On TV, Joel slots into a long-standing antiheroic tradition; to an audience trained on “,” the lie he tells Ellie may feel queasier than the violence he commits in her name.
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