The Last of Us — season 1 — was by far my favourite TV show of 2023.

Season 2 is not as ground breaking, but still fantastic.

Intense. Very intense.

Bella Ramsey is a genius choice to play the critical role of Ellie. Quirky and potentially violent.

Her love interest in this season is up to the role. Isabela Merced as Dina has enough gravitas to share the screen. They have chemistry.

Season 2 picks up 5 years after the events of Season 1.

Joel and Ellie’s collective past catches up to them, drawing them into conflict with each other and a world even more dangerous and unpredictable than the one they left behind.

They live in stable, democratic Jackson, Wyoming.

We learn of other surviving human factions, stupid enough to kill each other rather than work together to rid the earth of the infected zombi-like creatures.

For some reason the timeline jumping forward and backward works in this dystopian show.

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It was filmed in Alberta and B.C., including Nanaimo.