After a season that has seen violence on a huge scale, plus some disgusting-looking zombies and devastating death, “Us” ends on a quieter but no less heartbreaking note in a finale that reminds us that we can sometimes be our own worst enemies.
Once more, the pair is in danger, and once more they shoot their way out, but it doesn’t mean their relationship will survive. It is lies and betrayal – not infected or insurgents or cannibals or the bitter winter – that might undo the parent/child-like bond that developed between Joel and Ellie. They may yet be torn apart by their differing values, guilt and responsibility, but not by violence or death. And in many ways, that’s a scarier fate to contemplate than a zombie apocalypse.
