In The Last of Us season 2, Joel finally goes to therapy
Pedro Pascal and Catherine O'Hara in The Last of Us.Joel is a troubled guy. Throughout the first Last of Us game (and subsequent TV adaptation on HBO, where heas played by Pedro Pascal), he sees and does a lot of things head rather forget. He certainly doesnat seem to want to talk about them much. Which is why itas nice to see that, in the showas second season, heas finally seeing a therapist named Gail.
Unlike most of the showas cast, Gail (played by Catherine OaHara) isnat based on a character from the games but instead is a new creation specifically for the HBO series. And although she makes her debut in season 2, co-creator Craig Mazin says that introducing a therapist was actually something he wanted to do early on.
aIn a world where everyone has been traumatized a therapy would probably be usefula
aWe have opportunities to do things only we can do that the game canat,a he tells The Verge. aI donat think the game couldave supported a very long cutscene between a therapist and Joel. But it was something that we had talked about all the way back in season 1, because it seemed to us that in a world where everyone has been traumatized, and you have to barter some skill as part of the new econ …