Terrified of You - The Last of Us Season 2 (2023) Ep1-2

Podcasts Oct 05, 2025

Bitter snow crashes against the window of your small room in Jackson. You shiver as you try not to think of the cordyceps that ravaged your patrol. Thank goodness you made it away in time before the creatures could pursue you.

This week David, Alex and ‪@DarthdYT‬ are joined by returning guest Danielle from ‪@levelstoryplays‬ to talk about The Last of Us Season 2's opening salvo. Massive spoilers for this one folks.

Glossary: https://zeroindent.com/apocalypse/

D.C. McNeill: if you haven't played the game, this this season of television breaks roughly halfway through with some adaptational choices that that bleed a few different bits and pieces forward. The season ends roughly halfway um through the game where the big change, which we'll get to next next episode of this this discussion. High level, going around the horn we'll start with you Darth because you seem to be the most positive on this these two episodes. How do they find you um did are you really enjoying you know revisiting the show for this discussion - yeah what's your high level on these two two episodes?

Darth: First, I'll back up and and also answer that same question because two of the things that I heard before I watched this which I was just kind of flummoxed by was one that that many fans were hating Ellie in this season whereas they for the most part like loved her last season and before watching this I I just could not understand how they could so change a character that this many people would be talking about hating the character. Then, secondly, Dina, a lot of people were talking about how they hated either. They hated the casting or they hated the hair. It was something so stupid that I was like, I don't understand why you're you're making such a big deal about this that I've seen multiple posts about that. So I I remember I remember hearing that going into it.

D. C. McNeill: that's crazy. I feel like, and Danielle backing up, I feel like Dena is one of the highlights of this show. It's pitch perfect.

Danielle: She was fantastic.

Darth: there were literally people that were like her her ponytail was like the wrong length or the wrong color. There was there was some really stupid stuff. Granted, it was like Reddit and so like if you're in the right spot, then they're just there to complain, you know?

D.C. McNeill: okay...

Darth: But I wasn't sure, especially with y'all who are coming from the video game, like I don't know how for me, if I was looking at Halo or whatever, it's got to be really darn close accurate for me to say this show is a good depiction of the game. So, if they fundamentally changed even some minor physical characteristics, I'd be like, "Okay, you got to have a good reason for doing that." Grain of salt there. So, all that said, I was I kind of had a negative perception of the show going into it because I had been hearing some quote unquote "bad" things about it, even though the overall reception was: it was good, but it was nowhere near what the first season was. So my my expectations were tempered going into it, even though I was still I was vibing all the way through. I very much enjoyed it. Aside from all the times I was probably crying because there was also a lot of sad stuff. A lot of deep emotional connection moments and I'm like how are how how is this happening, and you know this the zombie mushroom head show. And you've you've got this this deep connection happening at the same time.