The Last of Us Episode 6

What time does episode 6 of The Last of Us air? What is it about and who stars in the episode? Digital Trends has all the information about the hit HBO ...

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The dates may have changed last week, but the time never did. Episode 6 premieres on HBO and HBO Max Sunday, February 19 at 9/8c p.m. Directed by Jasmila ...

Now that the Super Bowl is over, we’re back to a normal release schedule. [You know there is](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZyuw4iVyiQ). Just use your HBO Max username and password. Episode 6 premieres on HBO and HBO Max Sunday, February 19 at 9/8c p.m. Just make sure your TV is set to HBO on or before this Sunday, February 19 at 9 p.m. Directed by Jasmila Žbanić (Quo Vadis, Aida?) and written by series co-showrunner Craig Mazin, this one will see Joel finally reunite with his brother Tommy (

Last week we had the chance to watch the fifth episode in advance thanks to the Super Bowl. However, the American channel HBO will resume its usual ...

[👉You might appreciate The Last Of Us Episode 5: The release date has been advanced! Thus, the release date of the episode 6 of The Last Of Us has been planned for Monday, February 20, 2023 in France (around 3am). Normally, The Last of Us episode 6 release time has been set for 3am on Amazon Prime Video.

Warning: This story contains The Last of Us spoilers for season 1.] The Last of Us is returning to its regular timeslot Sunday after episode 5 streamed ...

[0comments](#) The Last of Us episode 6 has a runtime of 62 minutes, according to the official HBO schedule. [episode 5 streamed early](https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/the-last-of-us-episode-5-releasing-early/) on HBO Max ahead of the Super Bowl.

The Last Of Us Season 1 Episode 6 reunites Joel and Tommy, while also giving fans a look at one of the most important set pieces come to life.

Joel and Ellie ride off on a horse and we get a montage of the next few days. He’s failing over and over and is sure he will just get Ellie killed if he takes her to the fireflies. Tommy gets there and they head to the stables where Joel is waiting. The two run to their horse but a man comes up on them and attacks. Joel and Ellie are fed a full meal, that they are absolutely loving, and say they are grateful for the hospitality. Joel and Tommy say their goodbyes and Tommy tells him there is a place for them there. Joel asks his brother about where the fireflies are and Tommy says it’s about a week long ride south, but it is a hard trip with infected and Raiders. They pass a water mill and dam, and that is where Ellie says wait, maybe this river is the river of death. They go to a bar and it almost feels like the old days. Joel can tell she is worried that they will not be able to make a cure, and she says if Marlene said they can do it, they can do it. They release a dog to smell them and see if they are infected. This is a smart way to move the story forward to where it needs to be.

Joel Miller (Pedro Pascal) finally reunited with his brother Tommy (Gabriel Luna) in the sixth episode of HBO's The Last of Us.

Ellie: She's seen talking to Ellie in the trailer, telling her, 'Be careful of who you put your faith in. She's seen talking to Ellie in the trailer, telling her, 'Be careful of who you put your faith in. Joel goes to the house and into Ellie's room, as she reads from a girl's diary, asking if this is all girls had to worry about, 'Is this really all they had to worry about? When I was a kid, I wanted to be a singer.' He struggles with the man and takes him down... Figuring out what they wanted to do with their lives.' And some people didn't want anyone to own anything at all,' Joel says. when she finds Joel saddling a horse. He says, 'Of course, I do,' and she says, 'Then what are you so afraid of? Because I was too slow and too f***in' deaf to hear him comin,' Joel admits. I was quiet, I checked my six, I looked for tracks, I found the high ground, and I kept watch. to no avail as he kills himself.

The Last Of Us gives us another character-building episode that's a bit more lowkey than last week, though it ends with a great cliffhanger.

Maria was white in the video game but the show cast a black woman to play her and when I saw her hair I admit I immediately thought of Michonne from The Walking Dead. Joel is out cold, bleeding to death, and it’s up to our young hero to find a way to save him and herself. In any case, Joel and Ellie head south to Colorado and the university where the Fireflies are supposed to be based out of but, once again, they’re nowhere to be found. We also got a glimpse at a pretty important new location, Jackson, which was reproduced pretty faithfully from the second game, which is where we really get a sense of the community. This is where the episode finally picks up and gives us some action and real fear. ‘Kin’ was a more grounded episode that spent a lot of time building up the relationship between Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey). We get there after a three-month time-jump following their run-in with the rebels in Kansas City and the tragic deaths of Henry and Sam. The closer he gets to Ellie, the more he’s brought back into his own painful past and the death of his daughter, Sarah—and the more he’s terrified that he’ll lose Ellie, and that it will once again be his fault (not that Sarah’s death was his fault, but he carries that guilt). Marlon says they lived in this cabin since before Joel was born and came out there to get away from the modern world. They’re in the snow-swept forests, fields and mountains of Wyoming now. It’s a funny moment, especially since I think Bill would love this place and he’s about as libertarian as they come. Sunday night’s episode of The Last Of Us was a little more lowkey than last week’s action-packed, tragedy-filled episode, right up until the end when things got scary fast.

For one beautiful moment, we see what a normal(ish) life could look like for Joel and Ellie.

In true The Last of Us fashion, it's a brutal end to this chapter, which showed us a future for Joel and Ellie: one where they could live in Jackson, enjoying relative peace. [mushrooms](https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a42760795/last-of-us-fungus-cordyceps-mycologist/), Appalachia, [Pedro Pascal](https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a42744061/pedro-pascal-snl-clicker-the-last-of-us/), and The Last of Us. Ellie resents Joel for making the call to stay behind—until he has a change of heart, anyway. In the home stretch of delivering Ellie to a team of doctors working on a vaccine, Joel makes a rational conclusion: Tommy is the best person to keep Ellie safe the rest of the way. [Episode Five](https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a42801413/the-last-of-us-episode-5-recap/)—we miss you, [Henry and Sam](https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a42803877/how-do-henry-and-sam-die-in-the-last-of-us/)—Episode Six of the HBO video game adaptation dares to offer us a bit of hope. While the adversaries wander off, we see that Joel isn't looking so good—and this might be his first ouchie from the series where he can't whip out a video-gamey health pack to make it all better. Joel suffers a major stab wound in the fight. "I explain that I would have to choose my own family at this point and he has a very adverse response to that. It's a major change from The Last of Us Part I game, where we hardly get to see the fully-functioning town, led by the formidable Maria. Joel assumed that his brother got himself mixed up in some Firefly antics, but the man is thriving. Episode Six is an absolute feast for fans of The Last of Us video games. Our man Joel has been searching for his long-lost brother, the ex-Firefly [Tommy](https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a42955210/the-last-of-us-tommy-show-vs-game/), for nearly the entire season.

HBO's hit sees Joel and Ellie stumble upon an idyllic community in Jackson, Wyoming, while also facing the biggest threat to their survival yet.

Now he’s the one on the ground with a terrible wound to the midsection, and his surrogate daughter is the one hoping against hope that he can survive. That The Last of Us can do both within the same episode, and have it feel all of a piece, is among its most impressive traits. But Jackson is doing as fine at the end of “Kin” as it was when Joel and Ellie first arrived. Ellie’s conversation with Maria is the first she’s heard of Joel having (and then losing) a daughter. But in the process, his stomach gets impaled by the shard of a baseball bat, and the episode ends with a panicked Ellie tending to his wound and pleading for him to get up. It’s remarkable how easily this show can jump from [Bill and Frank’s love story](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-recaps/the-last-of-us-season-1-episode-3-recap-hbo-nick-offerman-murray-bartlett-gay-love-1234667212/) to the dark Kansas City two-parter to this calm, very [Station Eleven](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/station-eleven-review-1265799/)-esque look at Joel and Ellie’s relationship, and at the possibilities of finding peace even in a post-apocalyptic world. In the melee, Joel briefly appears to be the superman he wants to be for Ellie, snapping the neck of one of his attackers. Instead, the threat is to the relationship of the two leads, as his fear of opening up to her instead makes her think she’s being abandoned by him. Where “Endure and Survive” was full of [mayhem, spectacle, and despair](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-recaps/the-last-of-us-episode-5-recap-hbo-sam-keivonn-woodard-henry-lamar-johnson-melanie-lynskey-death-1234674650/), “Kin” is quiet and contemplative, heavy on character and so light on action until the end that we don’t even see any infected. [Rutina Wesley](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/qa-true-blood-star-rutina-wesley-on-taras-vampire-transformation-243584/) from Queen Sugar and True Blood), and they are expecting a baby. It is the dead of winter, and our heroes have stumbled across an older Native couple — played by the great character actor Graham Greene and Northern Exposure alum Elaine Miles — who have managed to carve out a life for themselves in a cabin in the middle of nowhere that few people or infected ever come across. [The Last of Us](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/the-last-of-us-review-hbo-zombies-neil-druckmann-pedro-pascal-bella-ramsey-1234655768/), which at times is extremely straightforward, but exciting and crafted at a high level.

And this emotional swell in the story is brought to life by Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, who turn in not just their best performances in the series thus far, ...

What’s significant here is that Ellie, who’s depended on Joel for survival up to this point, is now put in the dreadful position of having to save Joel’s bleeding, unconscious ass while traveling through parts unknown. They offer Joel and Ellie one of their extra houses to stay in, Maria takes Ellie to the movies, the brothers share a couple of stiff drinks at the town bar. Their later meeting, in which Joel implores Tommy to take Ellie to the Fireflies in his stead, is even more emotional. It’s one of the most gut-wrenching scenes from the game, and they reenact it essentially line for line, because the original material is just that damn good. Our hearts break for him because we know he’s held it in for so long, and because his love for Ellie has grown so much that he doesn’t trust himself to keep her safe anymore. Tommy and Maria are having a child, and Joel, still haunted by the loss of Sarah all those years ago, can’t muster up anything but resentment and perhaps a tinge of jealousy when he hears the news. It’s got little action to speak of, but the reveal of Jackson is monumental, Joel finding Tommy at long last feels like a huge sigh of relief (until it doesn’t), and we get some of the most powerful, revealing Joel and Ellie material we’ve seen yet. The backdrop for all of this is, of course, the commune in Jackson, Tommy’s adopted home where he plans to start a new life with his wife Maria and their unborn child. The first talk between Joel and Tommy is a contentious one. But this is the first time we really get to focus on the central duo’s relationship and dive deep into what’s going on inside of their heads and how they feel about one another. The couple are downright adorable, and their little shared chuckles of amusement at Joel and Ellie’s high-strung energy make for a nice moment of levity following the visions of horror we were left with last episode. We watch Joel and Ellie finally speak openly about their feelings toward each other, which is a revelation, narratively.

This week, Joel and Ellie encounter a safer and more social way of life, but it's not clear whether they want any part of it.

This episode opens with a flashback to Henry’s suicide, which again includes the sound of Ellie’s haunting reaction: a startled combination of a gasp and a pained moan. He is not too keen on the way Joel seems to roll his eyes at Jackson’s communistic “share and share alike” approach to survival. As for Tommy — described derisively by Joel two episodes ago as “a joiner” — he looks both happy and wary to see his brother. (When Joel asks for the best way to head west, Marlon says, “Go east.”) But then our heroes make it all the way to Jackson, where they encounter a whole other way of living: calmer, safer and more social. It’s too bad that Joel and Ellie didn’t get to spend more time with grumpy old Marlon and Florence, because those two were a hoot. Maria thinks she knows the kind of person Joel is, based on what Tommy has told her about their time on the road. In this week’s “The Last of Us,” Joel and Ellie spend a fair amount of the episode riding horses, shooting guns and facing down posses, just like those western heroes. Marlon and Florence warned them that Wyoming would be a deathtrap, with every major city swarming with infected and the wilderness strewn with corpses. She has seen the horrors of “Killer City.” So what does she want for herself? To be fair, by the time they get to Jackson, they are feeling pretty stressed. And it makes sense for Joel — who has seen enough of this fallen world — to want to escape from everything and everybody. She seems less sure of what a “normal” life should be like.

After arriving at a remote cabin, they've taken Florence (Elaine Miles) hostage while she waits for her husband, Marlon (Graham Greene). It's not that tense a ...

Back then, there were two main ways of looking at things: some people wanted to own everything, and some people didn’t want anyone to own anything at all.”) The question of whether or not they’re a “we” has been settled for good. (It’s reminiscent of the scene in the kind-of-underrated Kevin Costner film The Postman where a bunch of post-apocalyptic tough guys are shown really digging The Sound of Music on movie night, then get angry when the film switches to the violent Universal Soldier. They escape to the wilderness, but only after Joel is stabbed and seriously wounded. Ellie learns to shoot and the rules of football and asks whether Jackson is how it was pre-apocalypse. Joel doesn’t hesitate to reply, “Of course I do,” and though that’s the central question, he still can’t commit to staying with her. And he doesn’t understand why Tommy won’t agree to come with them on the next step of the journey, to a Firefly base on a Colorado campus. The Last of Us is at least partly a tour of different ways of post-apocalyptic living, from the totalitarianism of Boston to, well, the different flavor of totalitarianism of Kansas City. It also leads Ellie to take a break from the sarcasm and remind him that if he’s dead, she’s “fucked.” (“There are Firefly People?”) They do know, however, not to pass the River of Death, a border they know by all the dead bodies that line it. To Joel, this seems to be a part of Tommy’s habit of joining others’ groups. And do what they’re told.”) Spurred in part by her admiration for Sally Ride, Ellie talks about wanting to go to the moon. As if to jolt us to attention, “Kin,” the sixth episode of The Last of Us’ first season, begins with a short flashback to the fifth episode’s most harrowing moment (though it certainly has competition): Henry shooting himself after shooting his infected brother Sam.

In episode 6 of "The Last of Us," we see Joel unlike we've ever seen him before: looking like a lost old man.

Finally, Joel lets Tommy in on the true nature of his trip: to take Ellie to the Fireflies in the hopes of finding a vaccine. We get a nice, fun scene of Joel finally teaching Ellie how to use a rifle. And when that dog tried to sniff out Ellie earlier in the episode, Joel felt similarly helpless. Ellie brings up Sarah and Joel tells her to stop. Tommy clearly hates seeing Joel this way and agrees to take Ellie to the University of Eastern Colorado, where the Fireflies might have a base. Here’s another thing we get to see in the show that we never did in the game: Joel and Ellie relaxing and camping. A woman recognizes Joel and escorts him and Ellie to Jackson. He reveals to Joel that he’s about to be a father. Here, we see peace and order in world of “The Last of Us.” If the story has felt bleak and hopeless up to this point — that no matter what a community does, it’s doomed — this Wyoming community is the counter argument. Ellie confesses to Joel that she tried and failed to save Sam. Here’s one of the biggest differences between the game and the show: Compared to the game, we spend very little time with just Joel and Ellie in the show. But in episode 6 of HBO’s “The Last of Us,” we see a new side of Joel.

Joel and Tommy figure out who's gonna bring Ellie the rest of the way. Sean Keane headshot. Sean Keane.

Both versions end up with Joel badly wounded and Ellie in charge of their fates, but the show gives us a rather excellent cover of Depeche Mode's [Never Let Me Down Again](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snILjFUkk_A) -- the same song that played at the end of episode 1. Joel scuffles with one of them and ultimately breaks his neck, but discovers that he's been stabbed in the stomach with a piece of wood. Tommy ultimately apologizes for his comment, and Joel confesses the depths of his trauma and the agony caused by his attachment to Ellie. After determining that the rebel group is likely in Salt Lake City, they're forced to escape as a group of marauders arrive. Predictably, she chooses Joel and the dream team heads out to I-25. [The Goodbye Girl](https://youtu.be/4wiL-ry9XMI) -- a 1977 movie about a prickly man who bonds with a precocious girl. [Rutina Wesley](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2179180/), whom you might know from True Blood) turns out to be Tommy's wife, Maria, and brings them to their rather lovely settlement for a reunion. Crossing the river, Ellie and Joel encounter a group of people who set a sniffer dog on them to determine if they're infected. Joel is a little weirded out by the fact that his little brother got married without him knowing, but Ellie helps him express his congratulations. Maria is also pregnant, which makes Tommy less inclined to take responsibility for shepherding Ellie to the Fireflies. The pup gives Joel the all-clear, then it seems like Ellie won't be so fortunate -- we know she's bitten, so the dog might tear her to shreds. Joel wants to settle down on a ranch and raise sheep because "they're quiet, do what they're told."

Recovering from the aftermath of episode 5, Joel and Ellie finally reach Tommy's and have a moment to breathe in episode 6.

The episode provides Joel and Ellie with a chance to breathe a little easier for a bit. Gamers will know these are the henchmen of David, a major antagonist in the game. The episode has plenty of references to the game. We spied Ellie taking a pack of tampons in one of the earlier episodes, and in this episode, Maria gives Ellie a Diva Cup. Now travelling through the snow-covered wilderness, Joel and Ellie encounter Marlon and Florence, an elderly couple living in the woods. The tragic death of Sam and Henry will definitely haunt us, and it certainly does our heroes Joel and Ellie, as we pick up with them 3 months after the events of episode 5.