Ben Lindbergh

Hello and welcome into The Ringerverse, your Nexus feed for all things fandom. I am Ben Lindberg, senior editor for The Ringer, and with me is my co-host for these Button Mash Last of Us Season 2 episodes. I made him a part of this. Ringer staff writer Daniel Chin. Daniel, why don't you say whatever speech you've got rehearsed and get this over with.

Hello and welcome into The Ringerverse, your Nexus feed for all things fandom. I am Ben Lindberg, senior editor for The Ringer, and with me is my co-host for these Button Mash Last of Us Season 2 episodes. I made him a part of this. Ringer staff writer Daniel Chin. Daniel, why don't you say whatever speech you've got rehearsed and get this over with.

Hello and welcome into The Ringerverse, your Nexus feed for all things fandom. I am Ben Lindberg, senior editor for The Ringer, and with me is my co-host for these Button Mash Last of Us Season 2 episodes. I made him a part of this. Ringer staff writer Daniel Chin. Daniel, why don't you say whatever speech you've got rehearsed and get this over with.

Nope. Nothing special. Just a routine episode of television that we will be talking about today. We are here to discuss The Last of Us Season 2, Episode 2, Through the Valley, written by Craig Mazin, directed by Game of Thrones and Succession legend Mark Mylod. If you were with us last week... You know the drill.

Nope. Nothing special. Just a routine episode of television that we will be talking about today. We are here to discuss The Last of Us Season 2, Episode 2, Through the Valley, written by Craig Mazin, directed by Game of Thrones and Succession legend Mark Mylod. If you were with us last week... You know the drill.

Nope. Nothing special. Just a routine episode of television that we will be talking about today. We are here to discuss The Last of Us Season 2, Episode 2, Through the Valley, written by Craig Mazin, directed by Game of Thrones and Succession legend Mark Mylod. If you were with us last week... You know the drill.

Here on Button Mash, we're giving you the gamer's guide to this season as we analyze the latest HBO episode from the perspective of two people who've played the Last of Us series for years. And this week's episode, well, this was the one we've been expecting, the one we've been dreading. You know, it's funny.

Here on Button Mash, we're giving you the gamer's guide to this season as we analyze the latest HBO episode from the perspective of two people who've played the Last of Us series for years. And this week's episode, well, this was the one we've been expecting, the one we've been dreading. You know, it's funny.

Here on Button Mash, we're giving you the gamer's guide to this season as we analyze the latest HBO episode from the perspective of two people who've played the Last of Us series for years. And this week's episode, well, this was the one we've been expecting, the one we've been dreading. You know, it's funny.

You don't get to rush this. Don't make me get my golf club, Daniel. Let's start with our spoiler warning. It's a little less pressing than it was last week because we got one major spoiler out of the way, but still pretty important. We will be discussing everything on the show through season two, episode two. We will not be discussing future episodes of the second season.

You don't get to rush this. Don't make me get my golf club, Daniel. Let's start with our spoiler warning. It's a little less pressing than it was last week because we got one major spoiler out of the way, but still pretty important. We will be discussing everything on the show through season two, episode two. We will not be discussing future episodes of the second season.

You don't get to rush this. Don't make me get my golf club, Daniel. Let's start with our spoiler warning. It's a little less pressing than it was last week because we got one major spoiler out of the way, but still pretty important. We will be discussing everything on the show through season two, episode two. We will not be discussing future episodes of the second season.

In fact, we haven't seen them, but everything else from the Last of Us universe is fair game, so to speak, including the entirety of The Last of Us Part Two. That said, do you feel as relieved as I do that the responsibility, the burden has been lifted from us now? We no longer have to keep the massive secret about what happened to Joe Miller.

In fact, we haven't seen them, but everything else from the Last of Us universe is fair game, so to speak, including the entirety of The Last of Us Part Two. That said, do you feel as relieved as I do that the responsibility, the burden has been lifted from us now? We no longer have to keep the massive secret about what happened to Joe Miller.

In fact, we haven't seen them, but everything else from the Last of Us universe is fair game, so to speak, including the entirety of The Last of Us Part Two. That said, do you feel as relieved as I do that the responsibility, the burden has been lifted from us now? We no longer have to keep the massive secret about what happened to Joe Miller.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just in conversation with people talking about the show, not knowing you got to establish the ground rules. What do you know? What do you not know? I just I didn't want to be the one to spoil it for anyone. So I don't want to ruin anyone's Last of Us experience. And now at least this particular cat is out of the bag for anyone who is watching live or close to live.

Just in conversation with people talking about the show, not knowing you got to establish the ground rules. What do you know? What do you not know? I just I didn't want to be the one to spoil it for anyone. So I don't want to ruin anyone's Last of Us experience. And now at least this particular cat is out of the bag for anyone who is watching live or close to live.