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Civilian rebels have Joel and Ellie rethinking “power to the people.”

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Before they hit the road again, Ellie zings Joel with puns from a raggedy paperback she carries around: Will Livingston’sWhat did the mermaid wear to math class? An algae bra. A teenager with a book of puns on a cross-country road trip. This job is becoming more horrific than even Joel imagined. He smiles a millimeter, which Ellie clocks.In the car, Ellie shows Joel a cassette tape from the back: Hank Williams.

Joel’s brother Tommy is two days away in Wyoming, he thinks. The last radio contact with him came from a tower close to Cody. At Ellie’s prodding, Joel tells her about Tommy. He enthusiastically signed up to fight in Desert Storm, but “didn’t feel much like a hero.” Twelve years later the outbreak happened, and Tommy convinced Joel to join a group heading to Boston. That’s where he met Tess. Then Tommy met Marlene and joined the Fireflies.

Lynskey is a counterintuitive choice to play this dangerous figure. Her thin, folksy voice evokes more Midwestern substitute teacher than a cold-blooded rebel leader. All due respect to the New Zealand-bornstar, but I’m waiting to be convinced. One suspects Mazin and Neil Druckmann were going for a slight shock effect, like Marge Gunderson inKathleen’s standoff with the doc is interrupted with news of the men that Joel killed.

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