The Last of Us Part 2 is one of my favorite video games of all time, but I'm finding its HBO Max adaptation increasingly troublesome. Here's why.

The Last of Us Season 2 dropped a major bombshell in its fifth episode. The Cordyceps fungus is no longer just transmitted through bites. You can also become infected through airborne spores.

What happened to Joel and Ellie? Where are they? Is the Cordyceps brain infection still a problem? Catch up with everything from Season 2 of HBO's "The Last of Us."

I’ll be once again live-blogging my in-the-moment thoughts as The Last of Us ’ newest episode airs, and am welcoming any and all fans to read along, whether you’re watching on Sunday night or a few days later.

12. Season 2, Episode 5 introduces spores into the TV adaptation, which is the main threat of infection in The Last of Us video games. In the show, Nora chooses to go down to the basement where the spores are, while in the game, Ellie knowingly tackles Nora through a hole in the floor to the infected area.

The HBO adaptation's latest installment picks up with Joel and Ellie five years after the events of Season 1 and is based on 2020's "The Last of Us: Part II"

As we learn over the first few episodes of The Last of Us Season 2, the WLF is based in Seattle. But it's not until episodes 3 and 4 we actually get to see the scale of the group, with episode 5 really dropping a reality check on our protagonists.