'The Last of Us’ Series Premiere Deep Dive
The Prestige TV Podcast
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Do You Get Attached?
The episode is connected really powerfully to that idea of like love protection, but also weaponizing that desire to protect. It's a painful thing not only for the other characters in the world, like Joel and Tommy, but for us as viewers, because it's this reminder: Don't get attached. The word safety comes up a lot in this sequence, in this mad dash to the river,. In this encounter with this soldier, Joel keeps talking to Sarah about needing to get her safe.
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