I Can't Stop Thinking About 'The Last of Us' Finale

After visiting a secret-religious-psycho-cannibal town, Joel and Ellie needed something good to happen in the season finale of HBO's The Last of Us. In last week's recap, I suggested that Ellie could fall in love again, or Joel could learn that the mushroom virus finally stopped spreading. Turns out, I was far too optimistic! But Episode Nine's horror didn't come from some new goopy, fungus creature—or even a David-esque new villain. It arrived from someone we knew all along.

View in Browser  SHOP EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBE I Won't Stop Thinking About The Last of Us Season Finale For a Long, Long Time After visiting a secret-religious-psycho-cannibal town, Joel and Ellie needed something good to happen in the season finale of HBO's The Last of Us. In last week's recap, I suggested that Ellie could fall in love again, or Joel could learn that the mushroom virus finally stopped spreading. Turns out, I was far too optimistic! But Episode Nine's horror didn't come from some new goopy, fungus creature—or even a David-esque new villain. It arrived from someone we knew all along. Read More The 10 Best New Balance Shoes Of All Time From the 990v5 to the 550, they just get it. Read More The Silicon Valley Bank Debacle Was Built on a Hubris We Have Seen Before Are these bros really masters of the universe, or can they barely even master bits? (Of the universe.) Read More Why Comedians Can't Keep The 'The Slap' Out of Their Mouths The actual Slap may have lasted just a millisecond–followed by Will Smith shouting "Keep my wife's name out of your f–ing mouth!" twice from his seat–but its impact has been monumental, not just for The Academy, which enlisted a new "crisis team" this year to prevent any similar incidents and changed the color of the red carpet to beige "to evoke calm and peacefulness," but for our culture writ large. The most shocking unscripted moment in live-television history since Janet Jackson's Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction" has become a Rorschach test, with observers bringing their own lived experiences into their interpretations of what happened between these two pop cultural icons. Read More People Are Going Wild for Pedro Pascal's The Last of Us Jacket The trucker, by Flint and Tinder, has seen a major uptick in sales since the HBO show's debut. Read More 5 Sunrise Alarm Clocks That'll Guarantee A Healthier Sleep Schedule Fall asleep and wake up as you were meant to: with light. Read More The Best Dressed Men of the 2023 Oscars Can I get a drumroll, please? The night we've been waiting for was finally here—Oscars night, baby! It's been an overwhelmingly good year for movies, all leading up to the big show. But before the awards could even go down, we had to focus on the red carpet—a place where, no matter what happens inside, actors have a few minutes to shine, and the only way to lose is to wear a look that misses the mark entirely. But we're not focusing on those guys, right now; we're focusing on the very best menswear looks of the night, and these guys are sure as hell winners in our book. Read More Follow Us Unsubscribe | Privacy Notice/Notice at Collection esquire.com ©2023 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019