Ending an HBO series with a sharp cut to black is certainly a classic, but the nuances behind the finale of The Last of Us are brought into sharp focus when audiences immediately question what they’ve just seen. It’s a bold way to do a season finale – have your main character slaughter an entire army of de facto good guys, trying to do a good thing, then lying to his surrogate daughter about it, and still retain the sympathies of the audience. Yet it works.