I feared The Last Of Us season 2 wouldn’t match its legacy
Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal's chemistry is lightning in a bottle.
Warning: spoilers ahead for The Last of Us season 1. This review doesn’t contain spoilers for season 2.
Going into The Last Of Us season 2, I had my fears.
Not that I didn’t trust the creators of the TV show, which was quickly hailed ‘one of the greatest of all time’ when it premiered in 2023. But living up to its own legacy was always going to be an enormous feat.
Over two years later, The Last of Us season 2 is finally back, reuniting fans around the world with smuggler Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), a teenage girl who is the only known person immune to the Cordyceps infection that’s ravaged the world.
I can safely say that after watching all seven of the new episodes, I needn’t have worried.
At the end of season one, Joel discovers that the rebel group called the Fireflies are going to perform a procedure on Ellie to try and create a cure to the infection, which would kill her in the process.
