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S1E5
Endure and Survive
The Last of Us · 2023-02-12 · 60 min
FLICKFEEL
79
from 27 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
On the streets of a newly free Kansas City, Henry fights to protect his brother Sam from rebel soldiers who will stop at nothing to appease their ruthless leader. As her manhunt continues, Kathleen doubles down on her quest for revenge, while Ellie forms a meaningful friendship.
how it went
Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.
FUN
0
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
68
how much it moved you
Read from 27 comments — 13 said when.
The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 13 said when something happened, and below 20 the same evidence split in half draws two different pictures. Drawn faint for that reason.
Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
- height
- how intense it got, 0–100
- gold above
- how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
- tension rail
- how much was still unresolved
- grey haze
- how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it
openingending
what people actually wrote
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
Reddit24 read
“Goddamn what an amazing sequence. The entire sniper scene was tremendous.”
SerDire▲ 2,731about 50–75% inread it ↗
“The way they directed that final scene with Henry and Sam was really well done. It really felt like an actively dynamic situation with poor Henry making the quick impulse decisions to shoot Sam and then realizing that he destroyed the one reason he had to live, kills himself. Devastating.”
wrathfulgrape▲ 1,917about 90–100% inread it ↗
“seeing Ellie trying to save Sam really broke me”
kch_l▲ 1,823about 90–100% inread it ↗
“Joel pleading with Henry to drop the gun at the end, followed by Ellie giving that pitiful cry/scream when he turned the gun on himself made me well up”
who made it
- directed
- Jeremy Webb
- written
- Craig Mazin
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Jeffrey Pierce as Perry
Keivonn Woodard as Sam Burrell
John Getz as Dr. Edelstein
Craig Haas as Informer- AAdam Basil as The Bloater
- RRon J. Anderson as Sniper
- SSkye Belle Cowton as Child Clicker
