A-ha’s Take On Me holds special significance to those familiar with the games, while The Cure's Just Like Heaven is a fun nod to Ellie – herself a form of cure – experiencing a moment of heaven amongst the hell of it all. Taking cues from Bill’s coded radio signal, two 80s songs are wonderfully used to signal imminent danger. Music is used brilliantly throughout with several clever popular music picks featured. Ellie’s burst of rage is an impressive outpouring from Ramsey as she shatters every glass surface in sight – a promising sign that she’ll successfully develop into the vengeance-fuelled Ellie seen in Part 2.
Despite winning the battle, they lose the war, each sheepishly revealing each other's bites to one another as shyly as they only moments before revealed their true feelings.
The tense encounter with the infected runner is fittingly scrappy, and the girls’ fighting styles are as makeshift as you’d expect from two teenagers with very limited combat experience. This short explosion of action seals their fate and sets the downward mood spiral of the episode into full effect. That chemistry is the base for a beautiful portrayal of a young person's sexual awakening and a real showcase for Ramsey's talents as a performer - impressively showing off a vast emotional range in the space of 50 minutes In some ways, it acts as a condensed mirroring of Bill and Frank’s story from episode 3, albeit one sadly never given the time to move beyond the walls of the mall due to the carelessness of youth and one unwelcome party crasher. For the most part, this plays as a (slightly) happier memory as Ellie and her friend-turned-crush, Riley, get up to all the typical teenage activities of sneaking alcohol, jumping over rooftops, and laughing at corpses falling through floors. It’s all the better for it as well, with this glimpse into Ellie’s past perfectly placed to give us a deeper understanding of her at this stage of the story. This is still The Last of Us, however a show where the good times are never destined to last for long.Įpisode 7 sees the events of the game’s DLC, Left Behind, seamlessly interwoven into the main story. Set weeks before Joel and Ellie met, it’s an episode filled with rare joy as dreams transform into reality and posters from bedroom walls become fully playable arcade cabinets.
Ellie’s story takes centre stage in both the past and present as HBO’s The Last of Us shows us what made her the person she is today in episode 7 – a beautifully faithful retelling of the original game’s bonus chapter.
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