Joel’s fate was finally decided in Season 2, Episode 2 of HBO’sThe Last of Usseries.

I got to play an early release.

We break all relationships, all the great loves of our life.

Joel in The Last of Us

The connections we have with our parents, our childrenthey break.

And how we deal with that is the most specific of human suffering.

It takes whats maybe the most beautiful connectionthe great bond between a parent and a childand then breaks it.

Pedro Pascal as Joel in The Last of Us

What does that do to her?

And that is, to me, why it was important to do."

That despite her reasoned, carefully articulated point to Joel, that this is not rational.

Kaitlyn Dever as Abby in The Last of Us holding a golf club

Shes going too far.

Killing Joel isnt going to fix this for her.

Shes doing something wrong.

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This is a show that has an ending.

We are a show that confronts people dealing with the hardest emotions.

Watching Bella in that moment was heart-wrenching."

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