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Episode 7 “Convergence” Details

• Available On: HBO Max
• Public Release Date: May 25, 2025
• Director(s): Nina Lopez-Corrado
• Writer(s): Neil Druckmann, Halley Gross, Craig Mazin

Episode 7 “Convergence” Recap (With Spoilers)

You And I May Not Survive This: Park, Isaac

With the war with the Seraphites approaching a major, potentially decisive battle, Isaac is prepping for the worst and hoping for the best. He expects to die, for Park to die, and at one time saw Abby as the future. However, as Park points out, it seems she has abandoned them, for reasons currently unknown, to Isaac’s dismay.

The World Needs Good People: Jesse, Ellie, Tommy, Mel, Owen, Abby, Dina

When it comes to Jesse, he has complicated feelings regarding Ellie and Dina. He loves Dina, knows Ellie is close enough to him to go on the same revenge journey she is for Joel, but her lack of restraint, her willingness to sacrifice the community at large for her impulses, gives him pause. She sees this in him firsthand when he lets members of the WLF drag off a Seraphite child, and he reinforces this by noting he didn’t support a group going after Abby to avenge Joel.

With this in mind, when Ellie puts the pieces together of what Nora said and realizes Abby could be at the Seattle Aquarium, she chooses to pursue that over joining Jesse to help Tommy. As you can imagine, Jesse doesn’t like this option, given that he guessed Dina is pregnant due to her not drinking when he removed that arrow, and Ellie accidentally confessed. So with something to live for beyond becoming the next Maria, he goes for Tommy since he creates a safer path home. But, as we see later on, fate had other ideas.

He isn’t alone, though, in fate being cruel. Ellie encounters Mel and Owen, and in the pursuit of trying to get to Abby, she tries to get them to reveal her location. Owen pulls a gun, and in one bullet, Ellie ends his life and accidentally ends the pregnant Mel’s life too. Tommy justifies this as them siding with Abby, but lest we forget, just as Ellie could find Abby’s associates, Abby can find Ellie’s – and she does just that.

In fact, she kills Jesse, has Tommy on the ground with a gun pointed towards his head, and while it isn’t clear where Dina is, we do end things with Abby seemingly shooting Ellie at a range where it could be a one-shot kill.

Let’s Switch Focus: Manny, Abby

But, we don’t learn in this episode if Abby was stopped in time or did shoot Ellie. There is a soft reset to what was Ellie’s first day in Seattle, but now we’re focused on Abby’s perspective as we see her wake up from a nap Manny disrupted, for Isaac calls upon her. Pushing the idea that season 3 will focus on Abby’s point of view, and maybe season 4, if it happens, will be a clash of petite titans.

New Cast and Characters

Mel (Ariela Barer)

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• Character Summary: Mel is one of Abby’s friends, with a medical background, similar to Nora.

Owen (Spencer Lord)

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• Character Summary: Owen is a friend of Abby’s who gets himself and Mel killed.

Manny (Danny Ramirez)

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• Character Summary: Manny is probably Abby’s closest friend, compared to the others who follow her lead due to her position in WLF.

Review and Commentary

Highlights

Ellie and Dina Having A Cute Moment [81/100]

In an effort to say something nice, I will say that Ellie and Dina continue to be a silver lining compared to all else this season has had to offer. You can see Ellie’s willingness to be vulnerable around Dina furthers the drive to invest in their relationship, because Dina isn’t the new Joel, but does provide a sense of safety similar to Joel. And in return, I think Dina gets to not only love what she likes, but also knows that just as much as she gives Ellie emotional safety, Ellie can provide some form of physical safety.

Plus, as shown through what she is doing for Joel and says she would do for Jesse, she would do anything for her, whether alive or dead. So, with being a mother soon, having someone like that to love and help raise your child is an asset that is hard to find, especially for a child that isn’t theirs.

Low Points

Feeling Unaffected [63/100]

No one’s death felt like it mattered. Jesse running out to save Tommy and being shot below the eye, it didn’t create a sense of shock or devastation. Which I don’t even want to blame on knowing it would happen, because the real issue here is, we got introduced to all these characters, but not much was done beyond the introduction.

All we know about Jesse, Mel, and Owen are facts. Jesse was in line to be the next Maria, is Dina’s baby daddy, and apparently came to Jackson as an orphan. All these details don’t feel like they became more than words on a page. And the sad thing is, I don’t know which way to point for why that is. Did the actor not get enough time, or was it the writing? Could it be that the actor, while skilled enough to handle the role, wasn’t good enough to make an impact in a short amount of time?

The same questions can be posed about Owen and Mel. Shouldn’t we feel affected by Mel being pregnant and dying? Shouldn’t we feel conflicted like Ellie appeared to be? Shouldn’t there be some reaction, knowing Owen would do something stupid?

To me, and this is truly an issue with this season overall, it failed in building compelling supporting characters, especially those who weren’t made to be fairly simple, like Dina was. Jesse, as a rival to Ellie’s love for Dina, who was also clearly growing in influence and power, should have been noteworthy – yet he wasn’t. Mel and Owen, who could recover in season 3, were as much fodder as Nora, in terms of their death being as eventful as an extra. The only difference is that Mel, Owen, and Nora got more lines, and you got a sense of why they were killed specifically.

On The Fence

Can Abby Do Better Than Ellie As Lead? [74/100]

With the focus switching to Abby for the next season, so it appears, there comes he question of whether Kaitlyn Dever can do what Bella Ramsey couldn’t this season in being a lead who could take the baton from Pedro Pascal. Now, in Dever, and in extension Abby’s, favor, is that there are a lot of strong actors and characters who are part of the WLF for her to play off of in comparison to Ramsey, who, without Pascal, at best had a cute relationship with Dina.

However, whether or not The Last Of Us suffered a sophomore slump or sacrificed the second season for a roaring third one only time will tell and honestly, the fall from grace has been so dramatic that it is hard to believe the show can return to its former glory.

Overall

Our Overall Rating [72/100]

Despite a touching moment between Ellie and Dina that highlights the potential still present in the show, the episode underscores an ongoing struggle this season: making its supporting characters feel relevant. What should be significant deaths land with little emotional weight and its not due to predictability, but a lack of investment built over time.

This makes it so, looking ahead, the focus shift to Abby presents both an opportunity and a risk. With a strong supporting cast behind her, there’s room and the potential for improvement — but whether the show can regain its former momentum remains to be seen.

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