We’re again with The Final of Us Season 2, with mysterious new characters and geared-up new factions to keep away from just like the plague or be a part of, relying in your priorities within the apocalypse.
In Season 1 of Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann’s Naughty Canine sport adaptation, it was all about FEDRA and the Fireflies. However now, with the vast majority of Fireflies despatched into oblivion by Joel (Pedro Pascal) within the Season 1 finale, the faction has developed elsewhere.
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In Season 2, episode 1, we meet Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) and her crew of Fireflies. However in subsequent episodes they’ve grow to be members of a bunch with a wolf emblem on their gear. However who is that this new faction? Are they good or unhealthy?
Now, it’s going to be unfeasible for me to inform you the whole lot about this group — for those who’ve performed the video games, you may know what occurs with this group in The Final of Us Half II. However here is what I can inform viewers of the HBO collection concerning the WLF because it occurs in Season 2 (with no spoilers past what occurs within the newest episode on Max).
Wait, who’re the Fireflies once more?
One of many final conversations between Marlene (Merle Dandridge) and Joel (Pedro Pascal).
Credit score: Liane Hentscher / HBO
They have been a extremely expert, revolutionary militia group whose purpose was to liberate quarantine zones (QZs) from the U.S. authorities’s army arm, FEDRA, who in flip branded them terrorists. You would possibly bear in mind Joel and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) discovered their graffiti on partitions all by way of Season 1 — their motto was “While you’re misplaced within the darkness, search for the sunshine.” You may additionally bear in mind Ellie was a FEDRA cadet along with her greatest buddy and past love, Riley (Storm Reid), whose plans to hitch the Fireflies have been fatally derailed.
The Fireflies’ chief, Marlene (Merle Dandridge), was the one who despatched Tess (Anna Torv) and Joel on the mission to retrieve Ellie within the first place, taking her from the Fireflies’ Boston QZ hideout to a Salt Lake Metropolis base camp the place docs have been engaged on a remedy for the Cordyceps pandemic (bear in mind, Ellie’s resistant to Contaminated bites). Marlene would even be the final Firefly killed by Joel on the hospital, after he discovered Ellie can be sacrificed for such analysis — it is the large level of rivalry between them.
The Fireflies stated they wanted to kill Ellie for a remedy. Joel stated nah.
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And it is at this very medical facility we meet Abby’s group of soon-to-be WLF members for the primary time in Season 2, episode 1, reeling from what they’ve discovered.
What’s the Washington Liberation Entrance in The Final of Us?
Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) is a member of the WLF.
Credit score: Liane Hentscher / HBO
A militia group hailing from Seattle, the Washington Liberation Entrance (WLF) are identifiable by their emblem that includes a snarling wolf on a yellow triangle — the primary time we see that is in episode 2 on one in every of their backpacks, and Ellie and Dina proceed to seek out their emblem in subsequent episodes. Made up of former Fireflies and new members, the WLF are nonetheless a little bit of a thriller at this level, however members of the group have already carried out main harm.
In Season 2, episode 1, we meet former Firefly and future WLF member Abby and her mates, Manny (Danny Ramirez), Nora (Tati Gabrielle), Mel (Ariela Barer), and Owen (Spencer Lord), who’ve found the remnants of Joel’s bloodbath of the Fireflies in Salt Lake Metropolis. To say they appear pissed is an understatement, however Abby is the one who decides they need to prioritise monitoring down the killer.
We discover the Abby and her mates once more hiding out in a mountain cabin within the second episode (The Horrible One We Will not Get Over Anytime Quickly), the place Abby lures Joel and Dina (Isabela Merced) right into a deadly entice. Earlier than murdering Joel, she reveals that her father was one of many Fireflies Joel killed within the season finale, the surgeon who was about to function on Ellie.
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However what’s Abby’s precise involvement with the WLF? Earlier than bludgeoning him to dying, Abby tells Joel she’s been a militia member for 5 years and that she’s been taught to solely assault those that can combat again. “Our commander skilled us to comply with a code. We do not kill these that may’t defend themselves,” she says. “And proper now, that is you. However I’m going to kill you. As a result of it would not matter when you’ve got a code, like me, otherwise you’re a lawless piece of shit, such as you. There are just a few issues everybody agrees are simply fucking fallacious.”
We’re unsure what Abby’s commander should say about how she’s gone about her vengeance — extra on him under.
The place is the WLF base?
Manny (Danny Ramirez) retains watch from the Area Needle.
Credit score: Liane Hentscher / HBO
As we study over the primary three episodes of The Final of Us Season 2, the WLF is predicated in Seattle. Nevertheless it’s not till episodes 3 and 4 we truly get to see the dimensions of the group.
Whereas Ellie and Dina assume the Wolves are a small faction, within the remaining moments of episode 3 we see Manny again in Seattle within the crumbling Area Needle overseeing a number of metropolis checkpoints. Then, we see large tanks rolling by way of the streets, the kind FEDRA used within the first season. They’re accompanied by at the very least 50 foot troopers, armed to the enamel. We meet a lot extra of those armed troopers in episode 4, with Ellie and Dina’s path by way of Seattle riddled with them. Infiltrating the WLF to kill Abby will not be a stroll within the park in spite of everything.
Who’s the WLF chief, Isaac?
Meet Isaac (Jeffrey Wright).
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In episode 1, Owen mentions the group’s chief, Isaac Dixon (Jeffrey Wright). However we do not meet him till episode 4, with the opening scene exhibiting Isaac as a former FEDRA captain who defects and kills a complete unit of troopers. Later within the episode, Isaac tortures a Seraphite man in a well-equipped kitchen, presumably within the WLF base, demanding to know the place the group will assault subsequent.
Mashable’s Sam Haysom has a complete explainer on who Isaac is.
What is the deal between the WLF and the Seraphites?
This appears to be like…unhealthy.
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In episode 3, we meet one other new group known as the Seraphites or “Scars” on a forest path close to Seattle. Their chief calls for everybody to take cowl when it seems “Wolves” are on their path. They appear terrified. Judging by the Seraphite chief’s response to “Wolves” over what his daughter calls “Demons” as a menace, we expect they’re extra fearful of the WLF than they’re of Contaminated. And they need to be, as as Ellie and Dina uncover your complete Seraphite celebration slain on the finish of the episode.
The connection between the WLF and the Seraphites is direct opposition, as Isaac’s interrogation in episode 4 proves. Each Isaac and his captive accuse the WLF and the Seraphites of “breaking the truce” (we do not know what that’s but), and Isaac appears to be like amused when he is informed his facet will lose. “We now have automated weapons and hospitals, you lunatics have bolt motion rifles, bows and arrows, and superstition,” he says. “So inform me how are we going to lose?”
With each events current in Seattle, the rivalry appears territorial — however from the appears to be like of the WLF’s tanks, weapons, and foot troopers in episodes 3 and 4, the chances appear considerably in opposition to the Seraphites.
In episode 4, Ellie and Dina discover a WLF man riddled with arrows in a Seattle constructing and later discover a complete group of Wolves hanged and disembowelled, lit from beneath, with a Seraphite image and message written of their blood on the wall studying “Really feel her love.” It is meant to be discovered as a message, referring to the Seraphites’ non secular chief, the Prophet.
As Dina says, “What the fuck is fallacious with Seattle?”
The Final of Us Season 2 is now streaming on Max. New episodes air weekly on Sundays 9 p.m. ET on HBO.
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