

It's because she's been chained to a radiator like a rabid animal and like an animal keeps bucking and yanking and jerking against those restraints to break free. When we first meet Ellie she is pretty feral – but not because of the disease she's harboring. Razor sharp-tongue, gutsy, appears to be living with the very Cordyceps brain virus that has doomed the rest of the planet, but she's fine. Someone that's bound to be at the forefront of your mind is Ellie (Bella Ramsey). More time to ruminate, speculate and – of course – digest. You know, like it used to be done in the olden days. There was so much to unpack in the first episode alone that it's kind of a good thing that there will be a week in between episodes.

But now that it's finally here, was it worth the wait? Hell yeah, and here's why. Fans have been hungrier than the fungal-parasite-inflicted to get their hands on this post-apocalyptic drama. The Last of Ushas finally dropped, and it couldn't come soon enough.
