This article contains spoilers And for HBO's "Last of Us", especially the 2pm Season 2 ", through the Valley" and the Video Charger in 2020 "Last of Us Part II". If you don't want to read games spoilers, stop reading now!

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In "Valley", the second episode of the Sophomorial Season of the FBO's "Last of Us" adaptation, the fans of the original dog games series, got the moment they were waiting (and probably feared). ELOEL Miller, a protagonist of the story played by Pedro Pascal, meets a bloody, grotesque end in the hands of Abi Anderson (Caitlin Dever), the daughter of an ELOEL man once killed to save his (surrogate) daughter, Eli (white Ramsey). I'm not saying that someone should be happy For this. The scene is, to put it easy, to look. Ramsey's play like Eli, which is attached to the floor and begs for ELOEL's life, is an absolute heart. And then, here's the Dever, who takes Abi - the character made the notorious in the 2020s "The Last of Us Part II" - in psychopathic extreme, diving and torturing ELOEL in the last moments and taking the pleasure of beating him so strongly that he was leading the golf shaft.

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AI's actress of the game, Laura Bailey, who performed the role in the game using her voice and attraction, faced Extreme Reaction after people played through this sceneTo the extent that some "fans" of the "Last of Us Part II" threatened with its safety. I really care that Dever, an actress who has been working steadily since 2011, will end up in similar raw hugs. She shouldn't. It is a wild Perfect Like Abi, the lack of excessively torn body is damn. (What is funny, however, is the incredibly built Abi physics in the game Also It makes people angry, so to see complaints about it in the wild on the Internet is truly frustrating.)

Here's what Dever does to make Abi so attractive, aided by some smart writing choices by the show -spokeswoman Craig Mazin and Neil Drakman. We get a scene (it's not in the game) where, in a dream, today's Abi walks through the Hospital "Westkulica", where Elloel killed her father, just to be advised by her past, establishing true pain and sadness in the heart of Abi. Then, in the main scene where Abi kills Eloel, Dever inserts Abi with anger that feels extremely comprehensive with a clearly noticeable nuance of real sadness, both for her father and what she needs to do. She is brilliant. Anyone who doubted this casting selection should eat their words.

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In interviews released after "Valley", Caitlin Dever revealed something particularly stunning: just days before shooting her big scene with Pedro Pascal's ELOEL in February 2024, Dever's mother, Katie, died of breast cancer. In profile in VultureDever said about this experience, "Abi is a sad person; this is what fueled her anger. I could treat her, and that was a surprise to me because I didn't expect to do those scenes while I was actually living through sadness."

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Dever also spoke Fun weekly - Like Craig Mazin, Neil Drakman, Pascal and episode director Mark Milod, just to name a few - about the title story of "Valley" and told the exit that she was "in the fog" while filming, considering that her mother's memory is just Three days Before production begins recording the sequence of Abi-Jell. I really can't imagine what he had gone through while working on this scene. It is fatal over the belief that she worked at such an intensive moment as soon as she suffered a loss in real life.

The actress also shared that she had not prepared for the shooting as she normally. "Because of my life circumstances, I wasn't really able to make my normal routine as an actor, which was really interesting because I was worried about it," Dever revealed. "Usually, if I have such a monologue, I remember it for three weeks before I did it. I had a different approach and I think it really served the face in many ways. I was able to see them ... I don't know, I just went out and not thinking too much because the words on the site are so powerful anyway."

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I bring it all to say that the art of Dever is extraordinary and knowing the circumstances under which she filmed her most folded scene, however, as Abi makes the scene somehow evenly. more influential. Mazin talked about this in the Profile of the Vulture of Dever, saying that Devre's interpretation for Abi brings real and real sadness ... that is not present in the game. "She turns back to (ELOEL), and the real tear I've ever seen has just fallen from her eye," Mazin noted. "And you understand at that moment how deep sad is, even as it is cruel. That there is something that kills it while it happens."

Anyone who plays "The Last of Us Part II" knows that the game is divided between Eli and Abi and Based on the fact that the series has already been restored for season 3Craig Mazin and Neil Drakman seem to take the time to tell the stories of the two girls - and who were wrong with the violence of the world, and they are both led by Hurry and revenge. With only two episodes of Season 2 of "The Last of Us" under our belt, we do not know when we get the same change in the perspective we see in the game (without getting Also Specifically, if you ignored the spoiler warning for some reason, three special days in Seattle proved important to both Eli and Abi in a row). However, all signs indicate Caitlin Diver to take a central phase at some point. So how will you deal with whatever the reaction?

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"I take all this as it comes from," Dever told Jameseshes Hiberd for EW. "Honestly, I don't know what to do. I don't know how to plan for it. I don't know how people will react. I hope people appreciate what I did with the role, and that's all I can really do. I feel good to sit in that space just because I really have no control. In the best way I could.

She should be proud, and if there is any justice in the world, this can earn her first Emmy. "The Last of Us" airs new episodes on Sunday in Max and FBO at 9pm.

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