The Last Of Us Season 2's Subway Scene Is Exactly What I Wanted To See Since The Jackson Attack

HBO's The Last of Us is one of the best and most complex shows on TV right now due to its morally nuanced characters, but the most recent episode also included a phenomenal scene with the show's physically scary antagonists, the infected. The Last of Us season 2, episode 4 saw Ellie and Dina arrive in Seattle after setting out from Jackson. The pair is on a quest to find and kill Abby for murdering Joel in episode 2, but they have encountered important new enemies along the way.

The Last of Us season 2 has introduced the Washington Liberation Front and the Seraphites as two new groups who are fighting over Seattle and are willing to go to extremes. As Ellie and Dina make their way through the city, they are not entirely sure what they will find, but it turns out to be even worse than they expected. After encountering a group of dead bodies strung from the ceiling with their intestines exposed, Dina and Ellie know Seattle is going to be dangerous, and this is immediately confirmed by their entrance into the city's subway system.

The Last Of Us' Subway Scene Is What Has Been Missing From Season 2 Since The Infected Attack On Jackson

The Infected Scenes Are Some Of The Most Fun To Watch

The Last of Us season 2, episode 4's subway scene was perhaps the most fun part of the new episode to watch due to the intensity and immediate threat to the main characters. After finding the bodies in the television station and being chased by WLF soldiers, Ellie and Dina escape into the subway. Though they are followed by the WLF and trapped in place, they quickly begin hearing the noises of different types of infected that pose an even bigger threat.

Dina counts on her fingers the number of infected getting closer and closer, but when the horde appears, it is clear that they will not have any chance of fighting them off. The ensuing battle is one of the most impressive set pieces in the show so far, and it serves as a great reminder that the infected are still some of the show's scariest threats. As the WLF soldiers are killed, Dina and Ellie escape into a subway car full of skeletons while the infected rush to follow behind them. The sheer number of infected, combined with the dark, dirty subway station, makes it a truly memorable sequence.

The infected horde in the subway was just what The Last of Us needed, as there has been very little infected action since the attack on Jackson in episode 2. The Jackson battle was a lot of fun to watch because of how the characters prepared for it and worked to stop the massive onslaught of different types of infected. Similarly, some of the best sequences in the games come from big encounters with the infected that are immediately terrifying but very entertaining, and episode 4 really gets back to why those moments work so well through the subway scene.

The Last Of Us Season 2's Villains Are Interesting, But The Show Can't Forget About The Infected

The WLF Is Certainly A Huge Threat, But The Infected Are Just As Scary

Because Joel's death is one of the biggest events at the beginning of season 2, a lot of the focus shifts to Abby. Likewise, the series has been meticulously introducing the WLF, including Jeffrey Wright's Isaac, and their enemies, the Seraphites. These groups are very interesting and help reaffirm that some of the worst monsters in The Last of Us are the humans rather than the infected. While the infected have lost control over their actions and desires, the people are fully aware of the choices they make and the things that drive them.

The show spending a lot of time introducing these new characters is very important to its message, then, but the series is still at its best when the infected are posing a problem. The Last of Us can't forget the importance of the infected in telling Ellie's story and just how scary the creatures are in general. The various types of infected in The Last of Us make the game scary in different ways, an experience that should be translated to the screen.

How The Last Of Us Season 2's Subway Sequence With Infected Was Filmed

The Scenes Were Physically Intense And Took A Long Time

The Last of Us season 2, episode 4, was full of huge moments, from the subway scene to Ellie and Dina's big reveals, but visually, the subway sequence was by far the stand-out moment. The set pieces in episode 4 were all great, with the subway cars and Dina and Ellie's escape route being significantly more difficult to film than other moments on the show. Isabela Merced, who plays Dina, shared a behind-the-scenes look at The Last of Us's latest episode, revealing what it was like to film the subway scenes, sharing that it was incredibly physically tough.

Merced shared with Variety that the subway cars the two entered were actually very difficult to move around in, stating that she "could actively feel [herself] bouncing from one end of the car to the other" and also shared that she had a signal with Bella Ramsey when either of them wanted to use stunt doubles. Clearly, the intensity of filming that sequence came through in the final product, as The Last of Us season 2, episode 4 successfully captured the feeling we had playing that portion of the game.