Bella Ramsey plays Ellie in Season 2 of The Last of Us.
Bella Ramsey plays Ellie in Season 2 of The Last of Us. Source: HBO
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The Last of Us Season 2 debuts first episode on HBO with the start of the second game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The first episode of The Last of Us Season 2 kicks off today with a lie.

Ellie, played by Bella Ramsey, says to Joel (Pedro Pascal), “Swear to me that everything you said about the Fireflies is true.” Joel betrays no emotion and says, “I swear.”

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.