A Notorious Last Of Us 2 Twist Will Land Better In The HBO Show

The way that HBO’s The Last of Us TV series has recharacterized Joel means that the most infamous twist from The Last of Us Part II will actually land better in the adaptation. The Last of Us Part II notoriously hid the real focus of its narrative in its trailers so that players would be caught by surprise when, within the first couple of scenes, Joel is brutally murdered by Abby as payback for killing her father, the Firefly surgeon from the end of the first game. Joel’s death scene in The Last of Us Part II is sometimes criticized because audiences can’t buy that a cautious and cold-blooded character like Joel would let his guard down and immediately trust Abby and her group. But the TV version of Joel, played by Pedro Pascal, is a lot softer and more vulnerable, so the death scene will be more believable when it happens to him in season 2.