{"id":1174501,"date":"2026-02-13T15:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1851775994"},"modified":"2026-02-13T15:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:09:14","slug":"the-last-of-us-season-two-episode-one-recap-everybody-hates-joel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-last-of-us-season-two-episode-one-recap-everybody-hates-joel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Of Us Season Two, Episode One Recap: Everybody Hates Joel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/the-last-of-us-season-two-episode-one-recap-everybody-hates-joel.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFuture Days,\u201d the first episode of <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/last-of-us-season-2-hbo-max-show-review-joel-ellie-abby-1851774661\">The Last of Us season two<\/a>, opens with the <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 dPMosf sc-145m8ut-0 lcFFec js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/tlou-last-of-us-recap-s1e9-finale-joel-ellie-giraffe-1850217781\">closing moments of season one<\/a>. Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) are standing on a hill with the Jackson settlement they\u2019ll call home in the distance. Ellie, unconvinced by Joel\u2019s story about raiders massacring the Firefly\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/last-of-us-hbo-max-season-2-episode-1-recap-review-s2e1-1851775994\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/last-of-us-hbo-max-season-2-episode-1-recap-review-s2e1-1851775994\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFuture Days,\u201d the first episode of The Last of Us season two, opens with the closing moments of season one. Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) are standing on a hill with the Jackson settlement they\u2019ll call home in the distance. Ellie, unconvinced by Joel\u2019s story about raiders massacring the Firefly\u2026 Read more&#8230; Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1174502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[8685,17227,10893,12055,17229,17132,17230,3843,16797,8689,17238,17236,17237,15671,115,16551,17233,9519,6564,17235,9518,17234,13463,17231,14566,17239,778,2014,17225,17228,17232,13459,13460,17226],"class_list":["post-1174501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kotaku","tag-abby","tag-ariela-barer","tag-ashley-johnson","tag-bella-ramsey","tag-benji","tag-craig-mazin","tag-daniela-star","tag-devil-may-cry","tag-dina-isabela-merced","tag-ellie","tag-ellie-bella-ramsey","tag-eugene","tag-gabriel-luna","tag-halley-gross","tag-hbo","tag-infected","tag-jesse-young","tag-joel","tag-joel-miller","tag-joel-pedro-pascal","tag-kaitlyn-dever","tag-kat","tag-kin","tag-manny-danny-ramirez","tag-maria","tag-mel","tag-naughty-dog","tag-neil-druckmann","tag-nora-tati-gabrielle","tag-owen-spencer","tag-rutina-wesley","tag-the-last-of-us-season-2","tag-tommy","tag-tommy-gabriel-luna"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Last Of Us Season Two, Episode One Recap: Everybody Hates Joel | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cFuture Days,\u201d the first episode of The Last of Us season two, opens with the closing moments of season one. 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