Dealing with an Apocalypse - The Last Of Us: Joel And Sarah - Therapist Reacts! 

This game absolutely wrecked me. A masterpiece of emotion.

It's amazing how much Sarah was developed as a character in such a short period of time. Her loss was absolutely devastating. Joel is equally well developed and his relationship with Ellie and Tess is also fantastic. This game was a masterclass of character writing. There's even a pair of brothers you run into as the games progresses that, well, I won't spoil that part. I can name the number of games that hit me in the feels on one hand and have fingers to spare and this game was one of them. Coincidentally, another game you reviewed, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, was another that hit me hard emotionally. As for Joel's choice at the end, brutal as it was for the Fireflies, I get it.

The amount of care that Joel shows silently shows Sarah because of just how much he cares. And Sarah, poor Sarah, such a sweet character. I wish we got more time to see their relationship

It's always so great to see people like you take a dive into the games I hold really close. I would love to see you cover more of The Last of Us, for sure.

I would love for you to cover Joel and Ellies relationship arc! It is one of the strongest reasons why I love this game! It's so beautiful and real!

The first 17 minutes of this game were a masterclass in storytelling.

Oh, my god! You’re doing The Last Of Us?! I’m not a gamer, but this game and its sequel touch me with its character and emotionality of the stories. Thank you and good luck.

Dude if Sarah had survived and they still ran into ellie, Sarah and ellie would of been the best of friends, even if Sarah would be late 20's

I’m so happy you did a video for this!😭

I can’t wait to see a follow up to this about Joel’s relationship with Ellie

God Georgia.... you really went out of the way to make us feel the feels. Keep up the good work and the good vibes. Thank you for your videos and your insight in human interactions.

This game will always hold a special place in my heart, it practically shaped me into the person I am today. It got me through some of the darkest days of my life and showed me the light, motivating me to keep going. I'm only three minutes in and I already love this video, I always loved your videos on Arcane as well! Stellar work as always, I'm excited to see you cover Ellie too!

The last of us? 😮 That one I did not expect! You never cease to amaze me 😍❤️

This whole game is the single most relationship and character focused game ever. Like every single cut scene is worth a video from you, I'm genuinely happy you did at least this one and hoping to see more from you

Oh?! you getting in the Last of Us?😱😱🔥 Love it! I can sense the feels a mile away😭 I assume you'll cover the second game as well?💭🤞🏾

It's amazing how, even years later, Sarah's death still makes me cry. Even though I know it's coming, and that there's so much story after it, I still end up weeping.

LOVE IT! This was the first game that challenged me emotionally. This first scene with Joel’s daughter destroyed me. Naughty Dog was masterful by not follow the formula of “action first” to draw in the player. It’s a long scene video game wise) that set up SO MUCH of who Joel was, the extent of his trauma, and how this would influence the end decisions you’re forced to make at the end of the game. The addition of your insight as to Sarah, her character, and influence upon him beyond the dialog was so good! Beautiful break down as always (and spot on cos-play).

ohhh please do joel and ellie from the second game, there were sooo many great cutscenes between the two and I would love to hear your take on them. Probably the most tragic father/daughter relationship in any video game.

Seeing Sarah’s death always makes me cry, no matter how many times I’ve seen it

I'd really love it if you could do a video on the royal Fire Nation siblings Zuko and Azula or just Azula. I would love to here your take on their relationship or Azula's mental state as a professional. And this was an amazing video, as always

I really like the analysis of game characters, especially parental figures in video games even if the parents are not biologically related to the child. It’s so interesting to see that layer of character development through that child and parental-guardian relationship. I hope to see more of your analysis videos on video game characters. No rush though, take your time. :) SPOILER WARNING FOR THE LAST OF US PART 2: Also, and this is totally up to you, but I think it would be very interesting to see you tackle on the character Abby from The Last of Us Part 2, because I feel like her character has so much layer and complexity to analyze and talk about, but gets overshadowed/overlooked due to a controversial “act”that caused a huge uproar of hate from the gaming community. But I feel like if we could take a step back and look at things from a different point of view, we could better understand one’s actions whether we still disagree with them or not.

The fact that Sarah was killed not by zombies but by a human makes it all the more tragic

Yess The Last of Us kills me every time I play it I miss people talking about it.

OMG, when you've asked about which videogame the audience wants to see you reacting to, I've somehow already known that you're gonna do TLOU and have us riding this emotional Trainwreck once again 😭 as usual, super grateful for the content

Yesss ! The Last of Us is a m a z i n g. I was thinking you should make a video/series about The Haunting of Hill House, the characters are so well written and the show really plays on their psychologies. It would be thrilling to see you analyze them !

Great choice! Glad you analyze this amazing game :)

Good God Georgia please make more videos about The last of us!!!!! There's so much to unpack in both The Last of us and The last of us part 2, and I love every. single. second. of your reactions and explanation. More more more please more! (btw, all of your Arcane videos were amazing as well, it would be awesome to see all of your knowledge and passion put into a series about The Last of Us)

YES! If you’re starting to look into analyzing characters in story driven games, you should check out the Life is Strange series. There’s so much about the characters in those games to unpack. Only thing is with all of the dialogue options an analysis of just one scene could take a while to fully explore. Can’t wait to see more on The Last of Us!

I remember back when this game came out I showed the scene to my mother where Sarah dies completely out of context and she started bawling her eyes out

*[this is my favorite game series. I felt pure ecstasy watching this video- your channel will hold a very special place in my heart]*

Basically director/writer Neil Druckmann's intention for this game was to get you to that ending and have you WANT to save Ellie, even when the entire world is at stake. It was to make you feel that unconditional love a parent feels for their child and I'd say Naughty Dog more than succeeded at that, considering the second game got a barrage of hate mainly for leaning into the question that MAYBE Joel wasn't completely in the right for what he did and that MAYBE the Fireflies weren't so bad... Regardless, the sequel is INCREDIBLY interesting to analyze from a psychological perspective, I swear it turned Ellie from a 3-dimensional character to like a 5-DIMENSIONAL character. That barely even makes sense, but it does.

I really hope you cover Joel and his emotional core at the end of the game. This game wrecked me. I was a new first time dad when this game came out and it hit me in all the fears and pain and love that I was feeling at the time

Oh my god thank you!! This game is my absolute favourite and one that was very formative for me…. I loved your analysis and would love to see what you’d have to say about Joel and Ellie or Joel and Tess!

The last of us and moreso The Last of Us part 2 just absolutely destroyed me emotionally. I loved your insight into it and would love to see you react to more in these games.

This was excellent. I definitely want to see the Joel and Ellie relationship get this treatment.

I remember the this whole game. Stunning

PLEASE DO MORE ON JOEL! He was the first video game character that ever brought me to tears. Heck, my friends and I call him Papa Joel. I love this character so much; his highs, his lows. I just freaking love him. And Ellie... Sweet and amazing Ellie. I have no words to describe how awesome that girl is. I would love to see you break down Joel more... Even Tess, Tommy, Ellie, Bill, and Marlene. I think these characters are so amazing and would love to see your thought in how they handled the hardships that came to them. Things like: Tess's possible role in Joel's life and whether she helped or harmed. The hard choice Marlene had to make to take the child of her best friend and let her team use her immunity to make a vaccine. How Bill's behavior may have been what chased his "partner" away. Ellie as we see here in the main game and Left Behind. And the bit of Tommy that we get to know from the beginning of the game to the later part at the damn. I would be so excited to see that. This IS my favorite game ever because the characters are just incredible and I love them so much. I would adore seeing you continue with them. Thank you for covering this. ❤

Some people start their day with coffee. I start my day with another Georgia Dow video. Awesome work

I'm really happy you made this video, Georgia. Sarah's relationship with Joel reminds me a lot of my own relationship with my father (minus the whole zombie apocalypse, of course). It's also a great introduction to family systems theory. As usual, I also love your costume as well! Well done.

Oooh, we're doing the Last of Us?! Yes! There's no doubt going to be a lot to talk about when it comes to this game (games? ;) ), I feel. Not sure if you're going to do more on this, but here's hoping! In any case, really enjoyed this episode!

I would LOVE if you did a character breakdown of Ellie, especially her character in the last of us 2! Its really really interesting and tragic to watch her character arc play out the way it did.

I would love to see you do The Last of Us: Part 2. Both Ellie and Abby are experiencing incredible trauma and dealing with it very differently, and I'd love to see you go through all that stuff.

Always Love your brackdows of everything in your video really appreciate it 😊

Oh this is my favorite there is so much depths in the character relationship that is still mind blowing thank you so much for covering it

OMG I love this game, btw I also love your videos

Great video. I would love to see you do a video on part2 more specifically the backlash, from a storytelling prospective. It would be great to hear a professional discuss it.

Oh my.. you’ve put so much work and analysis in details into this video.. I love it! I really love this video. Thank you so so much❤️

I've been suggesting the last of us for a while now,I'm glad she did a video! Definitely should do like a part 2 video going through Joel's actions when starting to get to know ellie, and then up to the end and how he reacts when he finds out ellies life is in danger (basically go through the end of the game). Doing a video on the last of us part 2 on ellies ptsd would be awesome, or just her behavior during part 2 of what fuels her revenge and all that jazz

Yess!!! I absolutely love The Last of Us! and all the psychology of each character and the choices being made! I am so excited for if you end up doing more of this series!!! please do!!!:D

This was such a great video, I am so happy to see you covering the last of us. I would love to see you cover Joel and Ellie in a later video

this game is wonderful work of art, so glad your reacting to it!

This section was already heart-breaking. You breaking it down like this just amplifies it. WHOOF

I just saw this in my notifications and SCREAMED with delight

Please do more The Last of Us videos! It's such a great source of interesting stories and character types!

Just noticed the difference between the beginning and the ending. Joel has the gun in his hand and ready while carrying ellie. He isnt going to be caught without it again.

Yes please cover more of this game!

That's an absolutely heartbreaking opening to a story 💔. More on Joel and Ellie please 🙏

Loved the relationship between Joel and Sarah, it hurt to see her die in Joel's arms

Your analysis of the father and daughter relationship makes Sarah's death even more heartbreaking. 😭 AAA game studios should hire you as a consultant! Please, make more about TLOU! 😅 I also watched the one about "The Lie".

Ohhh god I’m ready to learn and cry

Both of these games have so much to analyze lol I would love this as a series!!!

THIS...this is amazing and i feel *FEELINGS* about this. thank you so SOOO much, Georgia-San; this was so wholesome, informative, and epic 🧡

I don’t think I’ve ever cried as much as I have when I played last of us

PLEEEEASE DO MORE VIDEOS ABOUT THE LST OF US + THE LAST OF US LEFT BEHIND + THE LAST OF US PART 2 😭 one of my favorite stories of all time, there’s so much to unpack!! i would love love love hearing your thoughts on all of ellie and joel’s story! your videos are always so thoughtfully and well made, please make this a series as you did with arcane! i feel like there are a lot of similarities to arcane as well, especially vander and vi + joel and ellie!

I will never forget the first time I saw the beginning of this game. It caught both me and my other half completely off guard, a masterful piece of script writing, both of us were so shocked we couldn't help but well up

The fact that ur analyzing one of my favorite games.... ughhh UR THE BEST

I woke up at 3 something cus of a headache. Couldn't go back to sleep. Really glad this vid popped to help pass the time!

Pls this is my favourite game ever, like a week ago I got "endure" and "survive" tattooed on my palms

The Last of Us Part II has so much to analyze, too! Hope to see you one day cover that game as well! Very disheartening to see of the reactions to the sequel, as some players had trouble understanding and empathizing with its characters committing irrational actions as a result to their crippling PTSD.

So throughout the game Joel's watch reads 02:15:39 the moment that Sarah died in his arms, and in some online promotional material from The last of us 2 it shows a gif of the seconds hand of the watch constantly bouncing but never moving past 39 seconds. The watch is stuck, still moving but never moving past that moment in time.

Everytime she explains an emotional i can't help but start to tear up

the excitement when i saw u made a video on them 😩😩

Wow! So much story and character in such short time.

This game (both 1 and 2) had an insane impact on me. After the second game, It led to literal months (3 I believe) of me in a depressed state. I tried super hard to figure out why it had that kind of an impact on me even though it is just game, mere pixels on a screen, but I never figured it out. Even looking back at the game now, I don’t feel anything close to how I did then. I actually bought a guitar afterwards just to learn some of the songs from the soundtrack, and once I did I stopped playing.

Georgia pls do an analysis on Ellie in The Last Of Us II ! Also love your videos (subscribed from your Arcane videos - love them sooo much). 💗

I love this! I hope you do more last of us and last of us part 2

Yay! You took my advice to analyze the last of us, thank you 💙

I remember when I first played this game. I went into it knowing only that it was a "zombie survival game". When I played through the intro for the first time I was literally left speechless, I actually had to get up and walk away to process what I just witnessed. It was the first and only times that a game has had such an emotional impacts on me., and I honestly believe that its one of the greatest and well executed stories/video game ever.

I forgot everything I was supposed to do the second I saw this thumbnail

Oh my gosh, I LOVE the last of us. I’m SO excited to see you cover it :D

This game and all the work that went into it... total masterpiece 👌

It's an old game, but I think you would absolutely gobble up "I have no mouth and I must scream".

Definitely would like to hear your thoughts on Joel and Ellie, maybe even Joel's relationships with Tommy and Tess. Or even comparing how different people have reacted to the state of the world with comparing Joel to Bill and others.

Please do more TLoU and TLoU2 videos when you have the time. This one was great!

i love this game, thank you for covering them!

You should do the show heartland it’s 15 seasons it’s a big commitment but it’s worth it it tackles a lot of themes like loss and grief and love it’s therapist heaven lol

So happy to see you cover possibly the best game ever made and one of my favorites

I only have caretaker tendencies with partners. But through the years I have minimized them as I have been taken advantage of in almost all of them without any love in return.

Ohhh, I'm so ready for TLoU 1 and 2 analysis!

Really out here doing one of my favorite characters in gaming. Well played.

Awesome video I still get teary eyed when Sarah dies even though I’ve played the first game like 11 times

Love that your analyzing the game

Another great video. Loved this game too. A while back you joked about a Kratos vs Rost video on being a father. How about a Kratos vs Rost vs Joel video?

He’s one of the best dads in video games history 😭😭😭

I love these deep dives into video game characters. I would love to see more about Joel and Ellies relationship!!

I love your breakdown of, potentially, the greatest most iconic intro in all of video games.

Such a great analysis! Thank you for sharing!

PLEASE please please do more videos on the last of us i was so emotionally attached to these characters and would LOVE to see videos on them done by you!

Your gonna make me cry harder for this game.

Yes please do more the last of us! Such an amazing story with fantastic characters with depth