In our recap of The Last of Us season two, episode three, we break down all the new revelations and questions the series brings up.

The moment fans of The Last of Us games have been anticipating since the HBO adaptation was announced took place during Sunday night's episode. It's a moment we were helpless to stop while playing The Last of Us Part II, and now we've suffered through it again in the second episode of Season 2. I'm talking about Joel's brutal, bloody death.

Then in the 1990s and 2000s, the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” creator Joss Whedon was partly responsible for changing the way TV series handle death, with heroes carrying the pain of a loss for multiple episodes — to the point where fans would anxiously wonder whether the show would ever be fun again.