The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 2 Recap Revenge Through the Valley. In most postapocalyptic stories — “The Last of Us”. included — one big idea that comes around repeatedly is that when death is omnipresent and inescapable, life becomes more precious. Just think of all the small twists of fate and fortune that kept Joel Miller alive for so long. It’s a miracle, really, that he lived deep into middle age — let alone that in this week’s episode of “The Last of Us,” he is in the right place at the right time to save the life of Abby, a woman who spent years looking for him.
The problem is that Abby wants Joel dead. And so, in one of the most horrifying moments in this horror-filled series, she obliterates this great miracle of life — the great miracle of Joel — with a several swings of a golf club and one deadly thrust. It’s a damned shame.
Were it not for Joel’s death, the episode “Through the Valley” would likely be remembered for the stunning battle sequence, in which Jackson holds it own — barely — against hundreds of the savage, relentless zombies. The action here, set against a snowy landscape, recalls the spectacle of “Game of Thrones” at its best.
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Were it not for Joel’s death, the episode “Through the Valley” would likely be remembered for the stunning battle sequence, in which Jackson holds it own — barely — against hundreds of the savage, relentless zombies. The action here, set against a snowy landscape, recalls the spectacle of “Game of Thrones” at its best.
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00:00The Last of Us, Season 2, Episode 2, Recap, Revenge.
00:04In most post-apocalyptic stories, The Last of Us included,
00:08one big idea that comes around repeatedly is that when death is omnipresent and inescapable,
00:13life becomes more precious.
00:15Just think of all the small twists of fate and fortune that kept Joel Miller alive for so long.
00:20It's a miracle, really, that he lived deep into middle age,
00:23let alone that in this week's episode of The Last of Us,
00:25he is in the right place at the right time to save the life of Abby,
00:28a woman who spent years looking for him.
00:31The problem is that Abby wants Joel dead,
00:32and so, in one of the most horrifying moments in this horror-filled series,
00:36she obliterates this great miracle of life,
00:39the great miracle of Joel,
00:41with the several swings of a golf club and one deadly thrust.
00:44It's a damned shame.
00:45Were it not for Joel's death,
00:46the episode Through the Valley would likely be remembered for the stunning battle sequence,
00:51in which Jackson holds it own, barely,
00:53against hundreds of the savage, relentless zombies.
00:56The action here, set against a snowy landscape,
01:00recalls the spectacle of Game of Thrones at its best.
01:03But we have to deal with Joel first, don't we?
01:06The shock of his murder is going to be hard for a lot of this show's fans to bear.
01:10Granted, if those fans have also played the video game The Last of Us Part de Sano,
01:15they may not be so shocked.
01:17Abby kills Joel there, too, early in the story.
01:19But if you've experienced The Last of Us only as a television show,
01:24Joel's death is a gut punch.
01:26It's just the second episode of season two.
01:29Who kills the hero when a new season is just starting?
01:32Also, the murder is so, so ugly.
01:35It's bloody ferocious.
01:37Hard to watch.
01:38It feels like a punishment.
01:40But aimed at whom?
01:41And why?
01:43Prestige TV.
01:44Dramas do have a history of cranking up the violence
01:47whenever viewers get too comfortable with an anti-hero's bad behavior.
01:52But what did Joel ever do to deserve this?
01:55Oh, right.
01:56He killed a bunch of fireflies, including Abby's father,
01:59an unarmed doctor.
02:01He also, if you believe those fireflies,
02:04condemned every living human on the planet
02:06to continue living through this insidious mushroom zombie plague
02:09when he rescued Ellie,
02:11the person whose one-of-a-kind brain and blood
02:13may have held the key to a cure.
02:17Divorced of the context this show brings to Joel's story,
02:20he could easily be the bad guy.
02:22There are ironies aplenty to the way Joel dies,
02:25beginning with the way he saves the life of his killer.
02:28While Abby is making her way to Jackson to find Joel,
02:31whom she has never met and knows only by a vague description,
02:34she runs into one of the encroaching hordes of the infected
02:37that have become a problem in the area lately.
02:40The beasts have
02:40developed a new method of ambush in the Wyoming winter,
02:44in which some of them stay warm beneath an insulating layer of their frozen kin.
02:49Abby, who is keeping an eye on Jackson's patrols from a spot high on a mountain,
02:53tumbles down into one of those infected patches,
02:56and then has to run for her life.
02:58Like much of this episode,
03:00Abby's race through the snow is thrilling,
03:02culminating
03:03in a sequence in which she crawls along the ground
03:05as the infected reach for her through a collapsed chain-link fence.
03:10One of them is about to do Abby in when Joel,
03:12out on patrol with Dina,
03:14shoots the thing.
03:15Abby, for a few seconds, is relieved to be saved.
03:18And then she hears Dina call Joel by name,
03:21and her thirst for vengeance returns.
03:23As a blizzard and
03:25a bitter cold front closes in on the survivors,
03:28Abby invites Joel and Dina to take shelter with her fellow ex-fireflies,
03:31without, of course, identifying them as such,
03:34at a house outside of town.
03:36But once the Jacksonians are inside,
03:38these soldiers,
03:39now part of a militia called the WLF,
03:42sedate Dina,
03:43and then watch warily as Abby she shoots Joel in the leg.
03:47Then Abby begins clubbing Joel,
03:49with both an actual golf club and her own,
03:52fists pushing her prey to the brink of death
03:54while trying to keep her vow to make him die slowly.
03:57Compounding this tragedy,
03:59Joel dies before reconciling with Ellie.
04:02We still don't know exactly what has caused Ellie
04:04to hold such a grudge against her guardian,
04:06but in the season premiere,
04:07we saw how much it hurt him to have lost her faith and
04:10companionship,
04:11and we saw the effort he was putting into trying to repair the rift.
04:16Ellie learns that Joel and Dina are in trouble
04:18while she is out on her own patrol with Jessie,
04:21young Mazzino,
04:22her combat trainer and Dina's ex-boyfriend.
04:25This episode begins with a relatively chill vibe
04:28as Dina's two love interests go riding out into the snowy wilderness,
04:31busting each other's chops.
04:34Then, while sheltering from the blizzard in an abandoned 7-Eleven,
04:38Ellie and Jessie hear over
04:39the radio that Joel and Dina have neither returned to Jackson nor checked in.
04:43They split up and head back into the storm,
04:46where Ellie is able to pick up Joel's trail leading to the WLF bunker in a mountaintop lodge.
04:51She arrives just in.
04:53Time to see Joel lying in a bloody heap, still alive but barely.
04:57After a brief struggle, she is captured and pinned to the floor,
05:00forced to watch as Abby jams the broken end of the golf club into the back of Joel's neck,
05:04killing him.
05:06Ellie is stricken with agony, her reaction almost feral.
05:09She vows to kill.
05:11Them all.
05:12Abby and the other WLF members let her live anyway,
05:15kicking her on their way out the door.
05:17Ellie lies beside Joel's corpse for a while sobbing.
05:21In the episode's haunting final shot,
05:23we see her, Jessie, and Dina dragging his wrapped body through the snow back to Jackson.
05:29Last week, I suggested that the busted pipe into Jackson,
05:32with its suspiciously writhing collection of roots and weeds,
05:36might serve as a symbol of something unsettled within the community
05:38and within Joel and Ellie's relationship.
05:41As it happened, it took only one episode for that rot to lead to a total collapse.
05:45And not just symbolically.
05:49This brings me back to the siege of Jackson,
05:51which happens at the same time as Abby smug speechifying and Joel torturing up at the lodge.
05:57In fact, Joel can see Jackson burning off in the distance,
06:00which seems to worry him more than his own imminent demise.
06:04The infected arrive en masse at the community's gates,
06:06called to action perhaps by the cordyceps hive mind within those decaying pipes.
06:10They run full speed into the wooden walls,
06:14even when doused in flaming gasoline,
06:16until eventually, with the help of a double-sized flame-resistant mushroom monster,
06:21they breach the barriers and run every which way, killing and destroying.
06:26Indiscriminately.
06:26Jackson survives the attack, but at enormous cost.
06:31With Tommy and Maria still in charge, it may be able to rebuild.
06:35But will Ellie still want to be a part of this,
06:38or is she about to become another Abby, driven only by revenge?
06:42Back in season one, Joel comforted a depressed and traumatized Ellie,
06:46still reeling from the horrors she had witnessed and experienced in Silver Lake,
06:50by confessing that he once had tried to kill himself after the death of his daughter.
06:54The attempt failed, and in the years since,
06:58Joel found other people not only to care for, but also to live for.
07:02People like Tommy, Tess, and Ellie.
07:06Maybe Dina can become that person for Ellie,
07:08because it should not be Abby, should it?
07:12Staying.
07:13Alive only to destroy, not to nurture.
07:16That is no way to live.
07:18Early in this episode, Ellie mentions to Jesse
07:21that she is considering easing up on Joel and becoming his sort of daughter again.
07:26I'm still me, he's still Joel, and nothing's going to change that, ever, she says.
07:32She didn't know she would run out of time.
07:35She may not have realized, until right now,
07:37what a gift it was to have any time with Joel at all.
07:39Well, thank you.
07:40You