It’s the last of Season 2.
The sophomore year of the grim HBO drama “The Last of Us” ended on Sunday night, wrapping up a dark stretch of episodes that killed off the series lead, Joel (Pedro Pascal).
Spoilers ahead for “The Last of Us” Season 2 finale.
Based on a popular video game of the same name, the show is set in a dystopian future where society has broken down, there are zombie-like creatures, and gruff smuggler Joel has formed a pseudo father/daughter relationship with teen girl Ellie (Bella Ramsey).
In the finale, Ellie tells her pregnant girlfriend, Dina (Isabela Merced), about the events that led to why Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) killed Joel.
Ellie reveals that Joel killed Abby’s father, who was a doctor, because he was going to kill Ellie in order to get the cure to the zombie infection ravaging humanity.
Jesse (Young Mazino), who is the father of Dina’s baby, also confronts Ellie about how Dina is pregnant. Dina hasn’t told Jesse yet.
“I see how you look at each other, she tells you things she doesn’t tell me,” he says, while Ellie assures him that she’s positive Dina was going to tell him soon.
Ellie also finally tracks down two others who were in the room with Abby when she brutally killed Joel.
Ellie finds Mel (Ariela Barer) and Owen (Spencer Lord).
She bursts in, surprising them, and demands to know where Abby is so that she can avenge Joel.
When they don’t tell Ellie, tension rises, and she ends up shooting them both.
As Mel bleeds out on the floor, Ellie is horrified to realize she was pregnant. A dying Mel gives Ellie last minute instructions on how to perform an emergency C-section, but she dies before Ellie can attempt.
Joel’s brother, Tommy (Gabriel Luna), discovers Ellie next to Mel’s body and leads her away. Jesse is also there.
Jesse looks disturbed, but Tommy glances at the bodies and assures Ellie, “they were part of it, too,” referring to Joel’s death.
“They made their choices,” he adds. “That’s all there is to it.”
Abby then shows up and shoots Jesse.
When she points a gun at Tommy, Ellie begs her to let him go.
“He killed my friends,” Abby says.
“No, I did,” Ellie admits. “I was looking for you, I didn’t mean to hurt them. I know why you killed Joel. He did what he did to save me. I’m the one that you want. Just let him go.”
An enraged Abby tells Ellie, “I let you live. I let you live! And you wasted it,” referring to how Ellie was in the room when Abby killed Joel, and she left Ellie behind, alive.
Abby shoots as Ellie shouts “no!” and the screen cuts to black, making it unclear who Abby shot.
At the end of Season 2, it’s unclear what Ellie and Tommy and Jesse’s fates are.
In the final scene, Abby wakes up on a couch, walks out onto a balcony,and looks out over post-apocalyptic Seattle.
Text onscreen reads, “Seattle, Day One,” implying that this scene is at an earlier point in the timeline.
“The Last of Us” has been renewed for Season 3, but no premiere date has been announced yet.
When asked how long the show will continue for, co-creator Craig Mazin told The Post in April, “We certainly know where it ends, and we know it does end. So this is not meant to be, ‘and now in the 12th season of ‘The Last of Us.’ That’s not happening. So, depending on how it lands, [there will be] one more season for sure … but perhaps one more, beyond that.”
