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If You Don’t Want To Play The Last Of Us, You Can Now Read It Instead
24.7.2025
I don’t have any room to judge all the times Naughty Dog has found some way to repackage The Last of Us and its sequel because I keep buying every new box set the studio releases. However, the newest way the company has found to print money without making a new game isn’t a bad live-action...
Naughty Dog Somehow Found Another Way To Get You To Replay The Last Of Us Part II
8.7.2025
There’s a scene near the end of The Last of Us Part II in which Dina, the girlfriend and baby mama of protagonist Ellie, begs her to let her inane revenge quest go. She has a family and a life here on their farm in Jackson, and that is something precious in this post-apocalyptic world....
The Internet Reacts To The Last Of Us’ Second Season Finale
28.5.2025
The Last of Us concluded its second season on Sunday with a pretty big cliffhanger, as HBO plans to adapt the story of The Last of Us Part II across three seasons in total. Here at Kotaku, I’ve been recapping each episode of the show, and I have not been having a good time. Frankly, I find it to...
The Last Of Us Season Two, Episode Seven Recap: Abby Road
26.5.2025
We made it, everybody. We’ve reached the end of HBO’s The Last of Us. Wait, sorry, I’m getting word in my earpiece that…we’re only halfway done with it because this show’s going for four seasons. At this point, I’m mostly feeling deflated. Last week’s episode was such a catastrophic bummer that...
I Wish Neil Druckmann Would Stop Confirming Things About The Last Of Us
22.5.2025
You might not know it based on my scathing recaps of The Last of Us’ second season, but I love this series. I love the moral conundrums it presents, the violent grief it depicts, and the games’ excellent writing that poignantly brings all of those complicated emotions to the surface. What I don’t...
The Last Of Us Show Made A Major Change From The Game This Week, And Neil Druckmann Explains Why
21.5.2025
The Last of Us season two’s penultimate episode was almost entirely flashbacks of Joel and Ellie’s lives together in Jackson. Some of these were plucked straight from the Last of Us Part II video game, others are brand new for the series. The most important one, however, was Joel and Ellie’s final...
The Last Of Us Cut A Beloved Segment From The Museum Scene, But It Looks Like HBO Shot It
19.5.2025
One of the best scenes in The Last of Us’ second season came in this week’s sixth episode, with Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) taking a trip to an abandoned museum. It’s a beautiful moment that is ripped right out of the Last of Us Part II video game, and the show does it justice....
One Of The Most Important Details From This Week’s Last Of Us Episode Is A Blink-And-You’ll-Miss-It Reveal
19.5.2025
This week’s episode of The Last of Us had a lot of drama to unpack and take in, but one of the most significant details in the flashback-heavy episode is pretty easy to miss. I’ve watched the episode multiple times and didn’t catch it until I saw people mentioning it online, and it explains one...
The Last Of Us Season Two, Episode Six Recap: Days Of You And Me
19.5.2025
Look, y’all, I try to start these recaps with lighthearted jokes and gags that all of us, both lovers and haters of The Last of Us season two, can enjoy, to set a welcoming and pleasant tone before I start unleashing my critiques of a given episode. However, I don’t think I have it in me this week....
The Last Of Us Fans Celebrate The (Temporary) Return Of Their TV Peepaw Next Week
12.5.2025
It’s been weeks since Joel (Pedro Pascal) met a violent end in HBO’s The Last of Us. People who played The Last of Us Part II knew this was coming, but newcomers have been in a state of mourning since season two’s second episode took away their TV peepaw. Like a lot of players did in 2020, they...
Why Last Of Us Fans Are Freaking Out About Pearl Jam This Week
12.5.2025
A lot happened in this week’s episode of The Last of Us, but one moment that has fans all in their feelings was when Ellie (Bella Ramsey) sang half a line of a Pearl Jam song in an empty Seattle theater. If you’re a fan of the Last of Us games, you know how significant “Future Days” (from...
The Last Of Us Season Two, Episode Five Recap: Seeing Red
12.5.2025
Ellie finally got a little bit of revenge this week. How are we feeling? Not as cathartic as you thought it was gonna be, huh? HBO’s take on The Last of Us is finally back in the trenches after a few weeks of levity, or at the very least with its grisly revenge plot out of sight and mostly out...
Is The Last Of Us Skipping One Of The Game’s Most Tragic Deaths?
5.5.2025
When it comes to tragedy, The Last of Us is typically unrelenting. Fans of the show are still reeling from the devastating events of this season’s second episode, and even though there have been a few moments of joy since then, I’m sorry to tell new fans that it’s going to get much, much worse....
The Last Of Us Fans Are Divided On The Show’s Ellie And Dina Romance
5.5.2025
After four agonizing weeks of waiting, Dina and Ellie finally consummated their relationship in The Last of Us during this week’s episode. The live-action adaptation has taken a few creative liberties with the girl’s love story, and that meant rather than starting the game out in a relationship,...
The Last Of Us Season Two, Episode Four Recap: U-Haul Lesbian Road Trip
5.5.2025
Well, y’all, this week I decided to give The Last of Us showrunner Craig Mazin a break. I’ve been pretty harsh toward the show’s second season for fundamentally misunderstanding so many of the bold creative decisions of the game on which it’s based. This week’s episode, however, was the best—or...
Did You Catch The Change In The Last Of Us’ Opening Credits This Week?
28.4.2025
If there’s one thing The Last of Us loves to do, it’s twist the knife. Did you feel like you were starting to recover from the events of last week’s devastating episode? Are you ready to sit back and relax with your favorite post-apocalyptic show, even after Pedro Pascal’s grisly end in episode...
The Last Of Us Season Two, Episode Three Recap: On The Road Again
28.4.2025
Hey folks. Y’all feeling alright after last week’s harrowing episode of The Last of Us? Everybody have a productive therapy session to talk about your TV peepaw’s death? Alright, cool, because we’re gonna spend this week’s episode doing more therapy and leaning harder into the show’s worst...
If You're Still Shook From The Last Of Us, Here's The Cast Being Happy And Hugging
21.4.2025
Last night’s episode of The Last of Us was pretty brutal, especially if you didn’t already know what was coming from playing the games. If you, like me, would like a palate cleanser for all this anguish and violence, perhaps I can interest you in lead actors Pedro Pascal, Kaitlyn Dever, and Bella...
The Last Of Us Season Two, Episode Two Recap: When Wolves Attack
21.4.2025
Welcome back to another recap of The Last of Us season two. It’s the big one, folks. Please leave all your golf clubs at the door on your way in so as not to impart any more emotional damage to your fellow readers. Get your “Fore!” or “birdie” jokes out of your system. Anyone who played The Last...
The Last Of Us Season 2 Starts Off With An Even Bigger Audience Than Season 1
15.4.2025
If you build it, they will come—especially when what you’re building is the most acclaimed video game adaptation ever. After waiting a little over a year to see the aftermath of Joel’s (Pedro Pascal) controversial decision to save Ellie, The Last of Us’s second season debuted to a larger audience...