On 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us Day last week, HBO finally unveiled the trailer for its adaptation’s second season. So far, it's looking like a fairly straightforward take on the events of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us Part 2, with a pitch perfect recreation of Jackson, a distorted version of Pearl Jam's Future Days, and Ellie strumming away on a guitar. But, like the first season, this outing will make some major departures from the source material. The first of which 🎃is prominent in the trailer as 𒁏Joel sits down for a therapy session.
That therapist is played by Catherine O'Hara, of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Schitt's Creek, and Best in Show fame. She's great, the kind of comedic actress who can make any line funny with a slight raise in pitch or an off-kilter facial expression. I'm happy toꦬ see her join the cast. The role showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann have deviꦑsed for her? Less so.
Sending Jo💯el To Therapy In The Last Of Us Is A Big Deal
After killing the Fireflies and lying to Ellie, Joel is living with 🐼deeply held regrets﷽.
Would Joel Really Go To Therapy In The Last Of Us?
There's precedent in prestige TV for violent men going to therapy. That's the hook of The Sopranos. The first season of HBO's In Tr꧒eatment saw Gabriel Byrne's psychologist Paul Weston treating a fighter pilot with PTSD. In the first season of Succession, the Roy children (sans Kendall) sit down for a joint session with their cruel, distant father, Logan. The Last of Us isn't the first HBO show to send a gruff man𒆙 to therapy. But that choice feels ill-advised, and unbelievable, in Joel's specific case.
Throughout The Last of Us Part 2, Joel is fixated on secrecy. During the Finding Strings flashback, Joel tells Ellie to put on her gas mask, even though she can't become infected and doesn't need it, because they might come across other people from Jackson. Joel is being proꦬtective of Ellie, sure. He doesn't want her to be put at risk of dying for her immunity again. But he's also protecting himself. If no one knows that Ellie is immune, then no one can conn𝕴ect him to the massacre at the hospital, and his secret will remain safe.
Joel doesn't trust people easily. His arc in the first game is centered on him finally embracing Ellie, while maintaining a willingness to enact horrific violence on anyone who threatens them. The only person we ever see Joel tell about what happened with the Fireflies is his brother, Tommy. Importantly, this is almost immediately after Joel and Ellie return to Jackson. It's still fresh. It's difficult to imagine Joel, who tells his secret to no one except for his only living family member, sitting down to divulge that information to a therapist. Joel is not a trusting person. Though we're accustomed to the idea of doctor-patient confidentiality, it's difficult to buy Joel, who lives years after those kinds of social contracts ended, being willing to open up t𒉰o a stranger about a secret that could destroy the most important relationship in his life.
The Last Of Us Show's Joel Is Leaving Joel From The Games Behind
The Joe🐓l of The Last of Us TV series is a slightly different Joel than the one we meet in the games. This Joel, notably, had a panic attack in season one, which lays the groundwork for a need for mental healthcare in season two. This will likely be the angl🔯e the show takes for this plotline: that Joel is going to therapy to deal with his anxiety, but making headway on that will mean opening up about Ellie.
It makes sense in a vacuum, but it doesn't make sense for Joel and it's a weaker sto💞ry decision than the one Naughty Dog made for the game. In The Last of Us Part 2, Joel won't admit that he did anything wrong. He even tells Ellie that he would do it all over again. She forgives him in spite of that. She has to accept him as he is, despite his decision to ignore her agency at the end of the first game. If Joel is tormented by his decision, that's a very different Joel - and a less compelling one.
The Last of Us TV series has shown a willingness to sand off its characters' rougher edges, as evidenced by the Emmy-win𝄹ning episode Long, Long Time, which reworked Bill's bitter isolation from the game into a tearjerker love story. That worked out for the series, but it would be a mistake to rework Joel in the same vein. Mazin and Druckmann seem to be searching for greater complexity, but Joel is already plenty interesting in the games. And he's interesting precisely because he is the type of guy who would never go to therapy, no matter how much he's ruining his life.
Ellie Looking Exactly The Same Is Going To Ruin The Last Of Us Sea💫son 2
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