Review
"The Last of Us", episode 5: Everything fits - and that's the problem
by Luca Fontana
"The Last of Us", episode 6: between truth, wounds and farewells
20.5.2025
Translation: machine translated
Episode 6 of "The Last of Us" is quiet, painful and deeply moving - between birthdays, confessions and the weight of memory.
In the midst of guitar, museum and grace, the sixth instalment of «The Last of Us» - «The Price» - explores what it means to owe someone something. And what happens when trust is not broken, but undermined. Quietly, slowly and steadily. «The Price» is an episode about fathers, sons and daughters, about guilt, shame and the courage to keep a promise. Or to break it.
In the Spoiler Factory, Michelle, Phil and I talk openly, critically and emotionally about the current episode as usual - with spoilers up to this point, but without a preview of what's to come.
Here's a little sneak peek:
If you haven't seen the previous episodes, you can catch up on them here:
If you haven't seen the sixth episode yet and still want to know what it was like, here's a short summary of our impressions - without spoilers.
Where love is blind and logic falters
There are episodes where not that much happens - and yet every scene hits you with full force. «The Price» is just such an episode. No explosions, no big spectacle. Just two people and what is unspoken between them.
Episode 6 jumps through time, from one birthday to the next. And each of these moments tells a little more about how closeness develops - and how it slowly crumbles again. It's about trust. About what is not said. About things that are too difficult to put into words. But still need to be said in order to heal.
What particularly moved me was the calmness of this episode. How it takes the time to let small gestures become big. How it shows that real love sometimes takes a wrong turn. Not out of malice, but out of fear. Out of protection. And how difficult it is to muster the courage to go back. Not physically. But above all emotionally.
At the scene on the veranda, Michelle couldn't hold back her tears one bit. And I understand her. Phil was also impressed, but found it almost a little too schmaltzy and also wished for more consistency in the visual effects. A fair point. And yet it was also clear to him: «The Price» is one of those episodes that stays with you. That resonate. That hurt - but do you good.
For me, this is the strongest episode of this season.
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Luca Fontana
Michelle Brändle
Philipp Rüegg
Luca Fontana
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Luca.Fontana@digitecgalaxus.chI write about technology as if it were cinema, and about films as if they were real life. Between bits and blockbusters, I’m after stories that move people, not just generate clicks. And yes – sometimes I listen to film scores louder than I probably should.
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