


The Last of Us airs on HBO in the US, and on Sky Atlantic and streaming service NOW in the UK."Don’t. Of course, we know that the show has deviated from the finer details of the game's plot but it's likely that it will stick to the main structure of the story, which means Joel, Tess and Ellie are in for a tumultuous ride. Just expect all sorts of crazy situations to unfold. The show and the game are also aligned in the fact that Joel was the one to step in and deliver Ellie to the other Fireflies, but he soon learns some pretty epic news that is far too spoiler-y to reveal thus far. Marlene believed that Ellie was the key to finding a cure. Like in the video game, Ellie became infected with the Cordyceps brain virus when she was a teenager, and both TV Ellie and game Ellie proved to be immune to its effects. Just as it has been established in the television franchise, Ellie grew up as an orphan. In the video game series Ellie is a very, very central character to the story. The Fireflies (a revolutionary militia group) have her well and truly detained.Ĭover your eyes, click off the page, set your phone or your laptop on fire if you really don't want to know any more about Ellie and her potential fate in The Last of Us. It's because she's been chained to a radiator like a rabid animal and like an animal keeps bucking and yanking and jerking against those restraints to break free.

When we first meet Ellie she is pretty feral – but not because of the disease she's harboring. Razor sharp-tongue, gutsy, appears to be living with the very Cordyceps brain virus that has doomed the rest of the planet, but she's fine. Someone that's bound to be at the forefront of your mind is Ellie (Bella Ramsey). More time to ruminate, speculate and – of course – digest. You know, like it used to be done in the olden days. There was so much to unpack in the first episode alone that it's kind of a good thing that there will be a week in between episodes. But now that it's finally here, was it worth the wait? Hell yeah, and here's why. Fans have been hungrier than the fungal-parasite-inflicted to get their hands on this post-apocalyptic drama. The Last of Ushas finally dropped, and it couldn't come soon enough.
