The Last of Us is a pretty bleak series, whether it’s the video games or the show, so sometimes when you’re faced with the kind of cliffhanger that season 1 episode 6 includes, you just need answers. So here they are.
Sometimes it’s OK to want something spoiled for yourself. Cliffhangers are all fun and good, but there’s a certain comfort in knowing how something ends, or at least whether or not it continues. And in something as bleak as HBO’s The Last of Us, it’s probably good to take that comfort wherever you can find it. Even if that means looking up whether or not one of the series’ main characters dies partway through the first game or season… like you just did.
Well, in the interest of providing some kind of comfort, or at least some certain answers after the cliffhanger ending of season 1’s episode 6, let’s dig into it.
[Ed. note: From here on, this post contains spoilers for The Last of Us Part 1.]
To answer this, I’m going to have to spoil what happens to Joel in The Last of Us Part 1: Joel doesn’t die in The Last of Us Part 1.
