![]() ![]() As Mazin told Consequence prior to the start of the season, he “would ask a lot of pesky questions of Neil to try and become as much of an expert on that world as he was, questions of things that weren’t in the game. ![]() It’s a development that makes sense, given co-creator Craig Mazin‘s interest in exploring elements of the Last of Us universe that his collaborator Neil Druckmann (writer/director of the original video games) hadn’t covered. What the show adds is an insightful glimpse into Ellie ( Bella Ramsey)’s life prior to her getting infected (without dying) - specifically, we get to see her as a less-than-dutiful student at “FEDRA school.” The episode takes its title from The Last of Us: Left Behind, a bonus adventure for the first video game which (like the episode) flashes back to Ellie and her best friend Riley exploring a mall together, while in the present Ellie tends to an injured Joel. Yet in Episode 7, “Left Behind,” the series offered up a new perspective on what passes for law and order in the apocalypse. It’s something we see in the very first episode, when a child is efficiently executed by doctors after testing positive for Cordyceps, and also generally come to understand as characters reference the group’s harsh rule over quarantine zones. ![]() 20 years after the outbreak, FEDRA is most commonly described by characters as a “fascist” institution, with a zero-tolerance policy towards the infected. government that has survived the collapse of civilization. One under-explored element of The Last of Us this season has been the existence of FEDRA, the remnant of the U.S. ![]()
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