The Last Of Us: Episode 7 - Left Behind (2023) TV Review

Oh dear, after the hugely successful Ep3 pulled the same stunt, stopping the forward momentum built up from Ep's 4-6 dead for another (gay) love story (a really tiny bit) falls a bit flatter this time. We get the necessary back story of Ellie (Bella Ramsey), her past at the military academy and her relationship with her room-mate and love, Riley. It's good but the weakest episode, quite repetitive, a slog, feels like low stakes filler and curiously like an episode of Stranger Things. Ellie only spends minutes with Joel this time but those minutes are more compelling than all the time spent with Riley. A victim of its excellent policy of only showing one episode a week, leading viewers to need a massive episode each time.