The Path

To be honest, this was better than I expected it to be. I heard many people say that this is the worst episode of the season so far, which is probably true, but still, it's not horrible. There's a decent amount of things that happened this episode, even if the pacing is a little slow it was still enjoyable enough. I'm not really sure what I think about the changes they did with Tommy's character. In the games he wanted revenge even more than Ellie, but he's not really like that in this series. Overall, I think this episode was decent enough, so far this season hasn't really been that consistent, but I hope the next episode is better!

Solid aftermath episode.

Ellie is here for the first time in this second season more likeable and human than the episodes before.

Scene stealer is Isabela Merced. Every scene she's in, she's great.

Some changes compared to the game: the game was fast paced and continued directly after the shocking event. Here, the episode continues three months later.

The relationship between Ellie and Dina was more bold in the game than here.

The episode takes its time, is beautifully shot, has some nice landscapes and road trip vibes, teases us a new group of religious survivors, but uses their scenes to show us that the mission of Ellie and Dina won't be easy against the powerful and relentless W. L. F.

Good episode that takes its time and seperates itself from the source material and tries to stand on its own feet. Apprecheated and recommended.

I don't care about the game.

I will never play the game so I'm not tainted like many of the people commenting that this was a poor episode.

It was vastly different than the previous episode but episode 3 is about a series that takes itself seriously about character development, setting up a narrative and actual momentum building not just shoot 'em action and infected.

I thought the acting was wonderful and I also felt I was in mourning because of the tragic snd jaw-dropping moments from the previous episode.

A slow episode like this honors the previous episode much more than having an action-packed episode. The way it was done felt real and heartfelt and made me want to see what lies ahead and that's the mark of a great series.

Three episodes in and meh.. pretty meh overall. It's tough on gamers as the so-called homages of dialogue are cringe but sometimes with subtle changes. Jackson battle was trash.

Best moment of ep.2 was Abby and her better improvised approach to Joel. I'd like to see more of her than Ellie who can't act as good as Dina and of course her character model sucks. No growth in personality or body. Disappointing

Ah, I can't post this review without reaching minimum letters guess I'll make more points

Yea I'm not really excited but more curious for the next episodes. I hear Neil Druckmann will be closely involved in the last two episodes so he'll likely save or worsen it.

This was a pretty bold direction to take the third episode of the show, because even though I expected a natural comedown after all that transpired in episode 2, I didn't think it would get quite this much slower.

The Path mostly works, but having such a direct focus on Ellie might've been a little detrimental? I don't know, I guess I was personally just really interested to see Abby after what happened in the last episode. She had a huge episode 2, sure, but she wasn't seen much in episode 1, and then wasn't seen at all in episode 3, and season 2 is only seven episodes, so skipping over her entirely felt weird. But, if the structure now is to kind of focus on either Ellie or Abby, alternating each episode, before they clash by the end, I could see that potentially working, too.

That's all to say that on its own, The Path was solid but a little underwhelming, though I think if this season ends well, we'll be able to look back on it as an essential part of the overall thing.