Season 2 of HBO’s The Last of Us wrapped up on Sunday night, and Ars’ Kyle Orland (who’s played the games) and Andrew Cunningham (who hasn’t) are back to talk about the finale like they’ve talked about every other episode this season. While these recaps don’t delve into every single plot point of the episode, there are obviously heavy spoilers contained within, so go watch the episode first if you want to go in fresh.

Kyle: Coming back from last week’s Joel flashback, it took me a second to remember what was actually going on in “The Present” of The Last of Us as we enter the season 2 finale. Ellie marvels at how easy it was to torture a hated enemy even though the result was just two words indicating Abby’s supposed location: “whale” and “wheel.”
I don’t think Ellie’s turn to “the dark side” is unearned, exactly. But I do think that this single-minded,

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