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S1E7
Left Behind
The Last of Us · 2023-02-26 · 57 min
FLICKFEEL
75
from 32 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
As Joel fights to survive, Ellie’s struggle to save him stirs memories of her life in a FEDRA orphanage. Weeks before meeting Joel, Ellie recalls joining her best friend Riley for a night to remember… one that will change the course of both of their lives – and the fate of the world – forever.
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
23
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
56
how much it moved you
Read from 32 comments — 16 said when.
The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 16 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
“Left Behind was Bella Ramsey's chance to shine and she absolutely killed it. The love, joy, anger, and grief she went through absolutely sold me that Bella will be able to nail Part II”
jsun31▲ 1,970about 75–100% inread it ↗
“it was as emotionally devastating as I was expecting”
SirUlrichVonLichten▲ 1,332about 0–100% inread it ↗
“Saving the song in the game for when Ellie stitches up Joel/the end credits was a powerful choice.”
valarpizzaeris▲ 1,184about 80–100% inread it ↗
“The whole time I'm an anxious wreck rn waiting for the other shoe to fall and the cordyceps come after them”
who made it
- directed
- Liza Johnson
- written
- Neil Druckmann
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Storm Reid as Riley Abel
Terry Chen as Cpt. Kwong
Ian Rozylo as Infected Man- RRuby Lybbert as Bethany