But it’s not that simple, as Ellie is using the deer she’s shot as leverage to get medicine for a severely ill Joel. “Is this some weird cult thing?” she asks him. That’s exactly what he wants you to think. “I’m a decent man, just trying to take care of people who rely on me,” he tells Ellie at first, when she encounters him out hunting in the woods.

Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play While others would argue they’re simply surviving, the Jackson crew are perhaps the only people thriving in this cold, hard world.īut in episode eight, we find perhaps the most horrifying corner of existence on the planet run by David (Scott Shepherd), the pastor, now firmly in the running for the worst villain of the entire series. Conversely, we’ve also seen why Tommy, Joel’s brother, has been AWOL: he’s found a pocket of peaceful, community living in Jackson. We’ve also seen the lawless state of Kansas City collapse in on itself in a violent maelstrom, thanks to its bloodthirsty leader, killer-in-a-kagoul Kathleen. Over the course of the series, we’ve seen the fucked-up militia of the ruling FEDRA make life a living hell for the public it is meant to be protecting in Boston. One of the biggest questions The Last Of Us – both the game and HBO series – attempts to ask is: how do people cope in truly desperate times? Would we manage to protect our capacity for love and compassion, or is it simply kill or be killed?

All of us are villains