[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “The Last of Us” Season 1, Episode 8, “When We Are in Need.”]If everyone on “The Last of Us” is trying to salvage what they can, the one thing that links everyone is a name.
One of the gradual throughlines of the series has been the recognition of when people try to bring out their own.
Often it’s in self-preservation, like the ambush kid from “Please Hold to My Hand.” It’s the same tactic used by a man here in the season’s second-to-last episode “When We Are in Need.” Staring down the barrel of a rifle and an ultra-determined Ellie (Bella Ramsey) pointing it, someone who’s become an expert at staying alive offers up a way to continue his streak.
He identifies himself as David (Scott Shepherd).
And in that moment, he’s already gained the upper hand.David is the latest in a line of Joel
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