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S2E6
The Price
The Last of Us · 2025-05-18 · 60 min
FLICKFEEL
74
from 63 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
Joel surprises Ellie for her birthday. Years later, Ellie prepares to confront Joel about her past.
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
17
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
69
how much it moved you
Read from 63 comments — 22 said when.
🎆 strong finish — Saves the best for last. Hard going most of the way through. In the last stretch it was tender and painful at the same time, which is the state people mean by being moved. Very little of it ever resolves.
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
🎆 strong finish — saves the best for last
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
“the single tear in the space capsule got me”
PenroseGarden▲ 572about 80–90% inread it ↗
“Joel’s “I hope you do a little better than me” took me the fuck OUT 😭”
heartbreakhill▲ 473about 80–90% inread it ↗
“I was extremely emotional”
allyfriend67▲ 290about 75–100% inread it ↗
“until i saw Pedro's performance. Holy fucking shit.”
KinoTheMystic▲ 270about 90–100% inread it ↗
who made it
- directed
- Neil Druckmann
- written
- Neil Druckmann, Craig Mazin, Halley Wegryn Gross
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Pedro Pascal as Joel Miller
Rutina Wesley as Maria
Robert John Burke as Seth- EEzra Benedict Agbonkhese as Benji
Noah Lamanna as Kat
Keiran Bohay as Dina's Dance Partner- VVictor Lau as Dina's Dance Partner
