As a TV adaptation of Naughty Canine’s video games, The Final of Us consists of quite a lot of hidden references and overt re-creations of the gameplay and cutscenes from The Final of Us Components I and II.
Music references, particularly, are threaded by each seasons, from the Hank Williams connection to Season 1, episode 4; Crooked Nonetheless taking part in on the dance in Season 2, episode 1; to Ashley Johnson’s cowl of “Through the Valley” to finish that brutal second episode.
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Within the fourth episode of Season 2, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) performs a tune proper out of the sport, in what’s certain to be a transferring second for followers conversant in the TV present’s supply materials. However what music does she play, and the way is it linked to the sport?
Which music does Ellie play in The Final of Us?
Suffice to say, Dina (Isabela Merced) loves the music.
Credit score: Liane Hentscher / HBO
In Season 2, episode 4, Ellie and Dina (Isabela Merced) are en path to Seattle once they want shelter. They discover the one place they’ll match their horse Shimmer by the door, Valiant Music Store, an deserted file retailer that is nonetheless totally stocked with Bob Marley and Tears for Fears vinyl and requisite Pearl Jam posters.
Ellie heads upstairs and finds the guitar part, the place many an instrument has been eroded by the weather. However fortune smiles on an unopened case, and Ellie finds a pristine acoustic guitar inside. She picks it up, takes a seat, and performs a very lovely, quietly romantic model of A-ha’s 1985 observe “Take On Me.”
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Why does Ellie play “Take On Me”?
Music is a vital hyperlink between Ellie and Joel (Pedro Pascal) in The Final of Us, in life and after his dying. Joel gave Ellie the butterfly-necked guitar and was restringing it for her earlier than he died, regardless of their rocky relationship.
The music Ellie picks to play is the identical one as in The Final of Us Half II, if you play the chords your self (this function of the second recreation is a polarising one). Ramsey performs the music within the present in a lot the identical type as Johnson does within the recreation, with each scenes exhibiting Dina listening with shining eyes to Ellie’s rendition.
Within the recreation scene, Ellie truly begins to play Pearl Jam’s “Future Days”, a music Joel performs to Ellie at the start of The Final of Us Half II when he provides her a guitar, and a music that is grow to be synonymous with the franchise for followers. However then Ellie stops when Dina enters, then transferring into A-ha’s “Take On Me.”
Ellie performs the music for Dina in “The Last of Us Part II.”
Credit score: Naughty Canine
The factor is, you might utterly miss this cutscene within the recreation for those who do not examine the guitar room. It is not a part of the principle storyline, however as an alternative it is extra of a non-public facet second for Ellie, who continues to be grieving the loss of her guitar-teaching father Joel, and for Dina, who’s changing into extra conscious of her emotions for Ellie — you attempt watching somebody you may like taking part in music dwell and never falling head over heels.
But it surely’s notably poignant due to A-ha’s lyrics, which match The Final of Us‘ glimmer of hope for our protagonist, with Ellie singing, “Needless to say / I’m odds and ends / But I’ll be stumblin’ away / Slowly learnin’ that life is OK.”
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