While she’s not exactly in charge of the Jackson commune, it’s clear she commands respect - and has worked hard to earn it. Rutina Wesley plays Maria with a sharp tongue and a sharper mind.If the answer was different, one of the two wouldn’t be telling the truth. Viewers familiar with the game know the dark implications of this quip.
When he asks about a location on the map, he tells the husband that it’d better be the same answer as his wife’s.
And Joel sees Tommy less as an equal and more as someone he needs to “save.” Tommy seems acutely aware of and sympathetic to his brother’s trauma.
But at least in the show, their relationship is warmer and more emotionally intelligent. Tommy and Joel share a similar past as they did in the games, where Joel led Tommy to do some inhumane, awful things that neither of them ever feel comfortable directly addressing.
