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HBO’s The Last of Us S2E6 recap: Look who’s back!

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New episodes of season 2 of The Last of Us are premiering on HBO every Sunday night .

Andrew Cunningham and Kyle Orland recapped the latest episode of the show's second season.

They say it's Joel week , but it's a time to celebrate the return of the main character.

The childlike wonder she shows here is a great respite from a lot of action-heavy scenes in the game.

Andrew : The things I like best here are the little moments in between scenes rather than the parts where the show insists on showing us events that it had already alluded to in other episodes.

Kyle : I did like the way Ellie tells Joel off for lying to her (and to Gail ) about the killing.

While there have been some cuts, on the whole, it feels like there's also been a lot of filler to "round out" these characters in ways that have been more harmful than helpful at points.

I'm curious to see what we're in for in this last run of almost certainly-Joel-less episodes.

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