The Last of Us, Episode 6 Review – Kin
If there’s one thing The Last Of Us knows how to do, it’s upset me. It’s not too violent or too vulgar, too boring or too predictable. Perhaps it’s just too…unconventional? Episode 6 of The Last Of Us was possibly the most jarring bit of television of I’ve seen. In my review of the previous episode I voiced my excitement over the story potential of adding two new characters, Henry and Sam to the mix. It felt as if this brotherly duo and the test of Ellie’s miracle blood would add some dramatic tensions to the next leg of the journey through the freaky fields of fungus. Let’s just say that I was very confident in who would be on screen during the episode titled “Kin” and was suddenly humbled when I pushed play on my HBO Max app. Technically Henry was was in the episode, but as the picture continuously flickered between a black screen and scenes of Lamar Johnson wielding a gun as Joel tries to calm him