It takes more than an hour to care about ANYONE, yet, they found some monkeypaw-esque way to do it. The writing is too good

Sam sleeping facing away knowing he wouldn't be able to hear her as he turned.

I cried for the hundredth time now over Henry and Sam, your reaction and tears made me cry harder than ever. I’m so grateful that something so terrible and heartbreaking still brings the waterworks. Makes me know I’m not complaining dead inside.

Lesson 1: Never love a get attached to the side characters because they could Get tossed aside or get killed

I think this is why the bloaters (the really big zombie) are so strong. Human beings are actually capable of A LOT, theres been people lift cars before because they were saving someone, and the reason we are able to do that, is because our adrenaline causes an override in our brain. See the reason we cant lift cars on a normal basis, is because our brain KNOWS it will tear our body down really fast, so it puts limits on how much we can do before becoming exausted to protect itself from over exertion. So my theory is that when the fungus infects someone, its slowly shutting all of those protective functions down. The bloater is able to beat people down like theyre nothing, because its brain cant tell it to hold back (Super complicated way of explaining it, but i hope it made sense) Also yes, the clickers use ecolocation to get around lol

"ayo don't waste all the paper" LoL

Had to laugh when you said "Don't waste all the paper" Anyone who grew up with those sketch pads knew how awesome they were. They were self erasing. no paper needed..

Also the joel of this episode burying henry and sam. The joel of 1-3 would not have bother burying strangers. But ep5 joel did, so that ellie can have time to mourn them, and grieve her friend

Watching you cry made me cry even harder the first time 😭 the writing was so good, that even though I’ve played the game and know how it ends, I still wanted to believe that what Ellie did with Sams leg would work. Sadly, it went the way it did from the game, and I still cried…

As sad as henry and sam are, narratively theyre meant to be a warning to joel. Last episode joel started bonding with ellie, snd henry comments in this episode that he thought he was her dad/that he was someones. Showing that joel has softened a lot sibce ep 1-3. Henrys ending is a warning to joel, that Joel will not survive losing another daughter, hes not strong enough. Which also sets the tone for the rest of the season. That joel WILL protect ellie, no matter what

That poor pillow 🤣

I really appreciated that Kathleen wasn't just evil for the sake of being evil. I think some of the best villains are those that are good and bad. Because really who's a villain and who isn't is easily a matter of perspective.

I like how your protection went from your book to a huge pillow 😮

As someone who played both games I am proud and cheerful of this rendition of the live action series! 👏👏👏

What happened to Kathleen showed that any human can turn into that with a loss, unfortunately, all humans are different; all humans react differently . . .

I love your reactions they’re so honest I always cry again when watching the episodes with you 😭😭

FEDRA was intended for good cause. But the more disconnected each QZ got from each other, the less the rules would be applied in a particular QZ, Kansas City went full on "We are the ranchers, you are the cattle. We take and do what we want, you don't have a say." kind of attitude (at least as presented here) Neither Henry nor Sam had ammunition when they ambushed Joel and Ellie. Depending what ammunition their guns use, Joel might have ammunition to share. 12:19-12:23 "Don't waste all the paper though" There's no paper. It's a toy my parents bought me when I was a kid that at the time cost like $0.75 It's an opaque sheet of plastic with a semi-adhesive black surface behind it. When you press on it, the plastic film sticks to the black surface and you can see the black through it. Each time you lift the film, it separates until pressure is applied again. It's basically a doodling/drawing toy for young kids to discourage them drawing on walls and such, while allowing them to draw as much as they want. Downside is, lift the sheet, the work of art is gone. Upside is, very re-usable for writing notes in this situation. (well, by the end of the episode you caught up.. Don't think yourself dumb for not realizing what it was, apparently they were not "everywhere" just in almost every store I was a kid in, so I apparently hounded my parents for one. You're far from the first reactor to *not* realize that. Most who comment on it don't include a moment in which they realize) 16:51-16:56 "If they were leaving, why kill them?" Although part of this is answered in a few moments, and it's partially been answered already... I just have to. Everyone is following Kathleen's orders. Kathleen doesn't want Henry to escape, she wants him dead for betraying her brother to FEDRA, who beat him to death. She wants Joel dead because of the people he killed (even though they started the fight), and Kathleen is totally aware her brother didn't want her seeking revenge, and she's flat out unhinged. When someone yells "Run" from a long distance away, all you can hear is the yell, not what they are saying. Notice how muted his voice is when he initially yells "Run"? There's a car blocking much of the sound from his voice. Until they stand up for a clearer communication, they probably didn't know what he was saying, and of them only Ellie is likely to recognize Joel's yell. The really big infected, if you look at the closing credits you'll find the name of it. I don't know if you'd consider it a spoiler. So I won't say the name. But I will say it's an absolute brute (in show and in game) The child clicker entering the vehicle Ellie was in, gave me a lot of "Ring" and "The Grudge" vibe The assumption people make about Ellie's immunity (outside the show, in the audience) is the same that Ellie makes. "My blood is medicine" It may be an element in her blood, it may be a specific genetic component. What if the genetic component that makes one more likely to suffer from cancer, or anemia, or pancreatic failure is the key. Not something in the blood its self, but a specific genetic trait. This would still need her as the source to isolate it, but would require genetic therapy rather than a simple "inoculation" or even a blood transfusion. It is good that the "smearing the blood on a bite" doesn't work, because you'd want to use it all the time to help people, but it only takes one person to talk about seeing it or being the recipient of it, to turn Ellie into a high bounty target across very unfavorable groups.

I love watching the episode with you, bless.

Love all your videos, and this is another great one. Thanks for sharing your reactions and astute observations with us. Your comments tend to be similar to my own when watching the first time. And my pillow suffered some abuse while watching TLOU too.

I'm sorry Nia 😭🥹 your rollercoaster of emotions this episode was great though haha

Brutal episode. Awesome reaction!! thank you )

That pillow has taken more abuse than Tina Turner Jesus lol

OMG Nia. This was so difficult to watch. I'm so sorry it was so hard for you.

That, my friend, is a Bloater. They’re the final stage of infection, and they’ve been infected for more than 10 years.

What a nice and authentic reaction

11/10 episode for me and great reaction as well

You might have the best Last Of Us reactions 😂 nah fuck it you do ✊🏾

I love the amount you hate Kathleen haha

Lmao I thought there's something on my screen

"No stay, stay" 😂😂😂

Omg im so stupid. When i watched this I was like "why cant sam hear her moving after he turned?" 😭 I FORGOT HE WAS DEAF WITHIN THE SPAN OF 20 SECONDS 🤦

Good to see you Nia

Hey Nia, why do you split the ending thoughts in another video that's never indicized? Makes it really hard to find them. Like... i never found the one for this one 👀

First off, Contortionist Clicker Girl is awesome. It was just an unexpected bit of "personality" for an infected that I got a kick out of. Second, I've seen comments in several places that say that Kathleen isn't a bad person, and in fact is very much like Joel. I scanned through the comments here and was glad not to see that take again. I'm with you on the Kathleen hate train. You said it best. She thinks the world revolves around her. Her brother was killed, and that's sad. I might even be able to see that as a fair reason (during the apocalypse) to kill Henry in retaliation. Refusing to let the kids go if Henry gives himself up is terrible, but given that she's a bit obsessed, I can even understand (but not approve of) that. But then there's the part where she already killed a doctor and one or two dozen "collaborators" also in pursuit of Henry. Henry traded one life to save his brother's life, and that's not a good thing. Kathleen has killed at least ten (or had them killed) before even finding the attic Henry and Sam were hiding in. It was a pleasure to watch Contortionist Clicker Girl leap on her.

Poor pillow....

I think you oughta buy a new pillow buddy, because I don't think that one will be able to undertake the beating his about to get moving forward... Just saying.

Even as amazingly done in the series as it is, in the game is even better. Won't spoil it (although it's very very similar) but the music, the way Henry behaves after shooting and the fade to black to "Autumn" is so strong that the series couldn't match it. But even so as I said it's an amazing recreation like all the series, best adaptation of a videogame by hundreds of miles.

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Brutal.

made in abyss season 2 is out and completed, ready to cry again? :)

Would really appreciate if you remove the bar on top. I do enjoy not getting burn-ins on my TV.

Ellie and Joel switch sides at the end. That was the Tess moment from episode 2. Ellie runs ahead while Joel is still waiting at the grave. Tess gave Joel a mission he wanted to fulfill as her last wish. The relationship that Joel had with Tess was similar to Ellie and Sam. Ellie promised Sam the cure here and couldn't keep this promise. She now wants to make sure that this never happens again. As Tess said at the time "save who you can save". Ellie really has a mission now. Indirectly get through her feelings of guilt. She wants her blood to work. Before that, she was someone who had no control over anything. Others have determined where she grows up and where she has to go now. Now that has changed. Now conviction plays a role and she takes control. She wants to save the world so that there are no more Sam's. And while Joel gradually finds his humanity again and lets people into his life again, Ellie loses a little more of herself and she takes the lead here in the end. I think the series showed that more clearly in this way than the game did. In addition, Ellie and Joel have reached a new level of connection with each other. Wordless understanding. Both wanted to save the brothers during the attack. That wasn't Joel's "don't do it Ellie" look. That was the look "I'll give you fire protection Ellie". And Ellie has absolute confidence in Joel. There was also a little joke about the game. The moment when the sniper shot and Henry and Sam senselessly ran out of cover, only to return immediately. This is how Ellie behaved very often in the game. She ran out of cover, right in front of the enemy and then back again.

If you follow the show creators and the story creator from the game you understand the story narrative. This is a tragedy. Every episode is going to be sad. The human race is done. The hint is the title "The Last of Us" This is a story about how love keeps us together in hard times and how that same love with doom us all. That is all wrapped in a zombie narrative. In zombie narratives the message is humans are the true monsters and the creators of their own doom. So the happy episode as Neil Druckmann said was episode 3. I hate to tell you if episode 3 was the happy episode then this whole story is just going to end bad. Keep your tissues out. In tragedies all choices are bad and the ends are always sad. Look at this episode like this: "Everyone did all they did for love, and now they are all dead." Love is the story. It is neither good or bad. It is just what drives everything we do and what also might doom us.

I need to know what makeup you are wearing, because if it can stay on after all the crying, I'm buying it right away

i honestly feel like this show is traumatising people

THAT is a bloater.

You can tell she never watched TWD

I bet 20 years of abuse you grow up warped in the first place and don’t have a normal moral code. It’s incredible her brother had it but I guess one out of majority of that city makes sense

Possible spoiler - have you support bear ready next episode (I will). I think we’ll lose one more character we care about in the next three episodes, but at least it should not be a surprise. I think it’ll be next episode, but the episode will still end on an emotional high point. I think …

This franchise is not a happy place.

Don't worry, they will try to humanize way worse people in this series.

as if the game wasn’t sad enough 🥲