Holy cow, that episode was long as hell. About time.

Perfect finale. Really loved it. They nailed all the beats.

Perfect finale. Really loved it. They nailed all the beats. Also, I don’t know if you can call Joel lying to Ellie at the end ‘gaslighting’. It was just lying.

• Fairly slow start, but also intense. Watching Ellie take care of Joel, spoon water into his mouth, leave him food… ugh, it was so heartbreaking. Her sleeping next to him while he moved his head against hers gave me a lump.

• Fairly slow start, but also intense. Watching Ellie take care of Joel, spoon water into his mouth, leave him food… ugh, it was so heartbreaking. Her sleeping next to him while he moved his head against hers gave me a lump.

I’m sure he’ll be getting some kind of ship where he can store the N-1 somewhere in it or on it, eventually.

• Has that slow clicker noise always been at the end of the recaps? So eerie.

• Has that slow clicker noise always been at the end of the recaps? So eerie.

• The elderly couple were fantastic. Hilarious, tough, nice…I’m glad there was no unpleasantness besides Joel briefly holding them hostage. "You made them soup?" 

• The elderly couple were fantastic. Hilarious, tough, nice…I’m glad there was no unpleasantness besides Joel briefly holding them hostage.

I’m not sure if you’ve played the games or not, but the character work they’re doing is essential, not ‘padding’. TLOU was never a Walking Dead-style hordes of zombies game (or show), the heroes’ relationship is the reason it exists, and it’s also as much about evil humans as it is about the infected. I’m really…

-  Perry does not and did not ever look like Will Forte. I also think more of a review than a recap would be nice, since we’re probably here because we just watched it, so we don’t need it recapped.

- Ellie’s impersonation of Joel the few times and calling it his “asshole voice” had me laughing out loud. Absolutely…

- I’m still bummed there’s no a “before the end” prologue each week still, that would have been awesome. A limited-series prequel full of a bunch of them or something would be my dream. Like World War Z, but TLOU.

- You thought Tess and Joel’s relationship was vague? They were absolutely lovers. I felt more like they were lovers in the show than in the game. Her line before she died, “never even asked you to feel the same” (or something close) made it clear they were physically intimate, and she wanted to be emotionally…

- I’m glad they moved on from showing Sarah’s death in the “previously on”. I was worried they’d show Sarah’s AND Tess’, and then we’d just have a progressively more morbid recap every week.

- I’m glad they moved on from showing Sarah’s death in the “previously on”. I was worried they’d show Sarah’s AND Tess’, and then we’d just have a progressively more morbid recap every week.

I had a friend telling me that seeing it in 4DX would change my life. It did not (though a few of the systems were broken).

Brent Spiner is playing Lore. This was told to us in the first trailer.

I know it’s incredibly cliche to say “I don’t get it.” but...I don’t get it. The first one was fun, and insanely gorgeous. It made 3D movies worth seeing suddenly. I enjoyed it for what it was, and promptly forget about it in all but pop culture references.

This one was pretty much the same; somehow MORE beautiful, but…

As pointed out in your article, this is not only nothing new, it’s happening every single day in every form of reviewed media. If it wasn’t, we wouldn’t get those Morbius commercials saying “...the greatest Marvel movie since Spider-Man” when Spider-Man was the last movie before it.