The Last of Us Season 2 | Trailer 3 | Max (HD)

Simon and Paige’s tragic story would make a great standalone episode of The Last of Us season 2. By focusing on two people whose love for each other transcends the conflict between the Wolves and the Seraphites, this storyline would help to personalize the Seattle civil war. The game had huge open-world spaces for the player to learn about this war through deadly encounters and scattered documents, but the TV show will have to find different ways to explore that mythology. Simon and Paige would bring a human perspective to the blood-soaked conflict in Seattle.

The Last of Us season 1 showed that the series thrives when it breaks away from the main narrative to focus on a relationship between two lovable characters. Episode 3, “Long, Long Time,” and episode 7, “Left Behind,” were two of season 1’s strongest episodes, and they each exhibited the strengths of this format. “Left Behind” rounded out Ellie’s backstory by showing her heartbreakingly short-lived romance with her best friend Riley, while “Long, Long Time” turned Bill and Frank’s teased relationship from the game into one of TV’s greatest love stories. Simon and Paige could do that for season 2.

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