In the game, Tess is the reason that Joel Miller is connected to Ellie in the first place.

There are moments when her and Joel are trying to climb high things, and Joel boosts her up only for Tess to literally PULL JOEL UP HERSELF-Joel, who is roughly a 6-foot-tall man. One of my favorite things about Tess in the game is that she’s, frankly, strong as sh*t. While I don’t know how the show and the game are going to differ, there are parts of the game that negatively impact Joel, but it is Tess who tries to break him out of his own darkness, and honestly, she rules. What’s important about Tess, though, is that she’s an integral part in Joel’s story after our first introduction to him. The Last of Us is going to be incredible! (Every new casting announcement for this show just gives me more hope, and I am already EXTREMELY hopeful about this show. Tess was an important woman in Joel Miller’s life in the beginning of The Last of Us, and now the HBO series based on the game has found its Tess in Mindhunter’s Anna Torv! Entertainment Weeklyreported the news, and honestly, this cast is NEXT LEVEL.

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