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Sure , there ’s a psychotherapist in the post - apocalyptical earth of HBO ’s The Last of Us - but there ’s no way she should be treat Joel .
One thing the HBO TV version ofThe Last of Usintroduced is that psychotherapeutics still exists in this post - revelatory world , and since it ’s a future after conventional civilization has collapse , therapists are really messed up . In case you ’re wondering , no , there were no psychotherapists in the earthly concern of the PlayStation game . Since the serial publication is a Hollywood output , of line , Hollywood needs to get some mental hygiene in there . So yes , unlike in the game , Joel ( Pedro Pascal ) goes to therapy .
In the fort where Joel and Ellie ( Bella Ramsay ) have settled at the end of time of year one and the first game , it ’s been five years , and thing are peaceful enough for everyone to find they can live as normally as faithful to before civilisation was ended by the Coryceps pestilence . Joel feels estranged from Ellie , who is going through her adolescence , as well as feel resentful that he lie to her about how and why he took her from the operating table at the Fireflies ' HQ . Joel is helping the commune rebuild its substructure and has started to see a therapist identify Gina , played byCatherine O’Hara . Gina lead off their session – not the first – by drinking , which therapist should n’t be doing , but this was after the end of the world , so what the hell , why not ? Gina get to push Joel to reveal what he ’s been hiding about what bechance with Ellie that he refuses to distinguish her or Ellie .
Gina unwrap to Joel ( and the viewer ) that Joel had toss off her husband Eugene , and she still hat him for it . However , she ’s uncoerced to continue to work on with him in therapy to assist him along . Now , the fact that the client stamp out her husband would directly compromise a healer ’s ability to give him unbiassed and proper assistance . Admitting she hates him means she and her client should absolutely not be seeing each other . These are already elbow room beyond the guidelines of the American Counseling Board Code of Ethics , but in the world ofThe Last of Us , there is no board to rule on how ethically off the chart this is . And Joel seems to concur to keep seeing her ! Is he that much of a masochist ? That ’s already a problem that he would require a proper healer to help with .
Come to suppose of it , why would Joel go to therapy ? He ’s somewhat much the same character in both the series and the biz , and he does n’t really come across as the type of cat who goes to therapy . He ’s killed right smart too many masses for therapy not to split open a closet - full of skeletal system and crashing giblet . Or is Gina unconsciously out to excruciate Joel for killing her husband ? See ? Serious honorable dubiousness ! FYI – Gina and Eugene are characters not in the game but created for the TV series . It ’s entirely likely we ’re going to see a flashback to exactly how and why Joel killed Eugene , because if there ’s something television set author reeeeeeeeeeeeaally love , it ’s flashbacks . It might be interesting to find out if Gina is the last living healer in this populace .
There ’s probably not a single screenwriter in Hollywood ( or New York City ) who ’s not in therapy . And of path , they would take details from their lives to put into their work . " Write what you make love " is the often in question catchword that author are learn . Since the writers ofThe Last of Ushave many hour of screentime to fulfil that ’s not taken up with playing the combat and natural process part of the biz and die repeatedly to respawn , let ’s have Joel go to therapy ! Why not ? The question is , what variety of healer haveThe Last of Uswriters been seeing ? ?
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