Warning: this article containers spoilers for The Last Of Us Season 2, Episode 2.

Firstly — to quote a British daytime TV presenter — are you ok? Anyone who has had even a passing interest with The Last Of Us, either in its original video game form or its television adaptation, should be used to experiencing high stress by this point. The post-apocalyptic franchise, depicting a world ravaged by a highly infectious cordyceps pandemic, is almost always intense, emotional, and enough to leave your cortisol levels spiking. But the second episode of The Last Of Us season two, which aired on Sunday night in the US, felt particularly shattering. We hope you at least had someone nearby you could hug.

Last chance: major spoilers to follow…

Because it was in that episode, ‘Through The Valley’ — the episode title alluding the famous Biblical quote, “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,...