This week’s flashback episode fleshes out Joel and Ellie’s complicated relationship. Here’s our The Last Of Us season 2 episode 6 review.

After his cruel and untimely death back in episode 2, Pedro Pascal’s Joel made a more or less expected return at the end of episode 5 of The Last Of Us season 2. It signalled that this week’s episode would be the long-awaited flashback episode that would finally show us exactly what happened in those five years that made Ellie and Joel grow apart.

Let’s just say, without spoilers, things get very emotional. Get your hanky ready.

Before Neil Druckmann, sitting in the director’s chair for the first time for the show, gets into Ellie and Joel’s thorny relationship, we get a little flashback to 1983 and to Joel and Tommy’s childhood. In order for us to understand the true depth of the present day tragedy,...