🚨 There are MASSIVE — and I mean MASSIVE — spoilers ahead for The Last of Us Episode 9, aka the Season 1 finale! 🚨
Well, The Last of Us Season 1 has finally come to an end, and to say I'm emotional would be an understatement. The Last of Us Episode 9 — titled "Look for the Light," directed by Ali Abbasi, and written by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann — was a perfect episode of TV once again.
This week's episode opened with us seeing the day Ellie (Bella Ramsey) was born and how her mom, Anna (Ashley Johnson), was bitten by an infected mere minutes before giving birth. The heartbreaking opening ended with Marlene (Merle Dandridge) arriving, taking Ellie, and having to kill Anna, her best friend.
The whole thing was even more heartbreaking if you know that Ashley, who played Anna, voiced and did the motion capture for Ellie in The Last of Us video games. A brilliant full-circle moment.
Aside from the opening minutes, this finale took a chaotic turn when Ellie and Joel (Pedro Pascal) finally met up with the Fireflies, and Joel learned they were planning to do a life-threatening procedure on Ellie.
What ensued was Joel killing everyone in the hospital and then lying to Ellie about what really happened while she was unconscious.
The Last of Us Season 1 finale perfectly sets up Ellie and Joel's journey moving forward and changes the course of their relationship forever.
So, to express their love for (and genuine shock from) this latest episode, fans — like me — and the cast took to Twitter to make some amazing jokes and memes and simply give some A+ commentary. Here's a look at some of the best tweets about The Last of Us Episode 9:
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Also, some of the tweets below mention suicide.
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#Okay
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That’s my best friend. She’s a real bad b—👯♀️❤️@TheLastofUsHBO #TheLastOfUs #ashleyjohnson #marlene #anna #ellie
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I’ve had countless occasions over this past decade to be proud of and humbled by this young lady’s talent and grace and selflessness. None, perhaps, more than this moment. As a bystander I’m so grateful to Neil, Craig, ND, and HBO for sharing her with the world in this way 🧱 https://t.co/F6tObyNT60
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Hey. So. Ashley Johnson is the best, right?
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A huge shoutout to Ashley Johnson and her phenomenal performance in #TheLastofUs' season finale! From Ellie to Anna, you continue to amaze us. ❤
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What a ride! Thank you to everyone that tuned in and helped make this show such a wonderful journey. We’ll miss your weekly thoughts, videos, reactions, artwork, cover songs, etc! Can’t wait to do it again with y’all! See you next season! Until then, endure & survive! ♥️
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😉 https://t.co/RETlqL2DCg
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that’s literally her dad everyone shut up #tlou
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“you fuckin tell ‘em ellie” 😭 im getting emotional over ashley johnson portraying ellie's mom #TheLastOfUs
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i don't think a show has honored the source material quite like what the last of us did with ashley johnson. watching ashley portray anna and share a scene with baby ellie — knowing all of the work ashley put into ellie and how much she loves her — is truly remarkable. i wept
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tlou spoilers joel telling ellie that it wasn’t time that healed his heart thus insinuating that it was her who healed him. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do without them #TheLastOfUs
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“i’ll follow you anywhere you go” #TheLastOfUs
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joel in the hospital #thelastofus
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We got Ashley Johnson and Laura Bailey on the same episode 😭❤ #TheLastOfUs
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#TLOUSpoilers nobody move NOBODY MOVE….. laura bailey ITS LAURA BAILEY
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ellie and marlene to anna and marlene. ten years apart <3 #thelastofus
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ellie’s laugh and joel’s smile 🥹 i love this scene so much #TheLastOfUs
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The 🦒 Scene #TheLastofUs
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“it was me. i’m the guy who shot and missed” MY GOD MY GOD #TheLastOfUs
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JOEL DON’T KILL THAT DOCTOR. JUST KNOCK HIM OUT AND TAKE ELLIE, JOEL PLEASE #TheLastOfUs
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pedro pascal after traumatizing his fans in the last of us
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ellie being so distant this episode and joel finally being open; their roles being reversed and him telling her (essentially) she was what healed him is something i will NEVER get over EVER #TheLastOfUs
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'why would joel do that when he could have saved the world?' and my answer to them is always this - ‘he did, he did save the world. it's just that the world was that girl, and that's it.’ #TheLastOfUs
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Nobody talk to me 😭 #TheLastOfUs
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ellie saying “time heals all wounds i guess” and joel saying “it wasn’t time that did” implying that ellie was the one that healed him I CANNOT DO THIS ANYMORE #TheLastOfUs
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hes so happy to see his daughter smile m crying #TheLastOfUs
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#thelastofus spoilers #tlou . . . . . “time heals all wounds i guess” “it wasn’t time that did it” oh i’m sobbing
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joel doing a massacre while a soft orchestral version of the main theme sounds in the background 😭 #TheLastOfUs #TheLastOfUsHBO
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#thelastofus SPOILERS - - - - - joel after he swore to ellie about the fireflies
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It's the way they left the song play louder than the shots like Joel wasn't completely aware of his actions #TheLastOfUs
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me watching joel massacre the fireflies in the last of us
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THE ENTIRE ENDING SEQUENCE WAS THE SAME AS IN THE GAME IT WAS SO GOOD #TheLastOfUs
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Oh wow I wonder what the significance of this is #TheLastOfUs
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wow can’t believe tlou ended right after ellie said okay and her and joel lived happily ever after on a sheep ranch playing guitar together & eating chef boyardee..wow it’s over it’s ended there’s no more they’re happy the end #TheLastOfUs
35. In conclusion:
me bc we all know what’s gonna happen in season two episode one of the last of us
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