The HBO series emanates its season 2 with a end that changes the approach … and the protagonist

Sometimes, The less it is better. Other times, it is simply less. The second season of The last of us has closed the arch With a final chapter that has left many fans with feelings found: A large final scene, yes … but preceded by an episode that advances like a gripado car.

The confrontation between Ellie and Abby arrivesYes, but after too many minutes of emotional and romantic ecological conflicts involved with shoes and decisions that make us ask for … who the hell is Ellie now?

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From the beginning, Ellie was the soul of history. A hard and sarcastic girl, but with a gold background. But to this closure, His moral compass becomes more than a drunk peon. Save a Serafita child, but leave Jesse and Tommy without batting an eyelid. He cries for what he did to Mel and Owen, but before he kills them without hesitation. Do you really know what you want? Because we don’t do it.

Beautiful ramsey gives everythingYes really. His performance on the confession scene with Dina is from Emmy. But when the narration does not accompany, nor the best actor can support the building. The script seems obsessed with the emphasition that “revenge is not good”, but it obviously does it that it touches the institute’s ethical class.

And speaking of rhythmic errors … the structure of the episode is A disordered collage of loose ideas. We have Ellie and Jesse who speak of a love triangle as if they were inside Euphoriain the middle of a war between armed factions. The tension dissipates every time the script decides to turn to the teenage drama.

Fortunately, Some action scenes save the set. The sequence on the island of Serafite, with the storm as a background and Ellie hanging around the neck, is pure anguish. And the appearance of Isaac (Jeffrey Wright) while the WLF leader contributes with a touch of humanity to the bad guys that the series needed how to eat.

But the biggest round – and undoubtedly the most divisive – arrives in the last few minutes: The change of perspective. See you Ellie, Hi Abby. Just when Jesse falls from a bullet and Ellie is at the mercy of Abby, the screen becomes black … and we reappear three days earlier, with Abby at the WLF Base Stadium. What is coming now will be the other half of the story, told by the eyes of those who so far was “the enemy”.

Many fans of the video game knew it would arrive. But to see it on the screen, knowing that probably The third season will leave Ellie in the backgroundIt is a courageous movement that not everyone will receive with open arms. However, The value of the risk is thereAnd it is one of the few moments when The last of us He feels revolutionary again.

Was this second season good? In part, yes. But it was also marked by questionable structural decisions: Only seven episodes to tell such a complex story is simply small. And when one of those episodes (6) slows down the main narrative to explore the past, however bright, the present suffers.

If the first season was almost round, this second He had very high and too deep valleys. Dina’s character won importance to such an extent that Ellie is sometimes done. And with the arrival of Abby as the main figure in the next episode, there is a doubt: does the series know who wants to say it?

Hope is now inside A season 3 that knows how to better balance your piecesand don’t forget that what made us love The last of us They were not only the tragic moments, but Care of characters and emotional consistency in their decisions. At the moment, we remained with a courageous, imperfect, but memorable ending.