'The Last of Us' - Season 1 Thread (NO GAME SPOILERS!) | HBO | January 15, 2023

[RickyGQ]

I should clarify and say that I still would not have cared about a straight couple getting their story fleshed out over an entire episode either...

Well acted, but I'm capitivated by romance in a post apocolyptic show where there's hella unanswered questions about shyt that develops the story. I just thought they couldn't wrapped this up much quicker, but of course critics will eat that shyt up so the writers have to play that game to keep drawing ppl in that aren't just interested in zombies and mayhem.

Would've been more interesting to see the families getting rounded up and lied to by FEDRA, or more about that Indonesian scientist, etc.

Obviously going to keep watching, but I couldn't have skipped that episode and not missed anything besides Joel & Ellie getting a car battery lol

Honestly, we’ve seen that in every zombie piece of art. Everyone was talking about what would set this apart from the genre and it’s really nailing shyt like this. The human element and the world building…

 

[The Observer]

House of dragons, now this.

You guys love gay tv programmes

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Brehs got a point, tho. What are the chances that the last two gay nikkas on Earth found each other?

Maybe its like prison where you just settle for it

Bill was in his 50’s if he never met frank he probably would have never came out

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

So they took the "Bill's Town" section of the game, which is top 2 or 3 parts of the game, and used it to tell a backstory about Bill and his gay lover?

And Joel and Ellie didn't even interact with Bill?


Low key just thought I'd be able to watch a show where everything wasn't sexualized. I'm sure they'll lean heavy into the DLC aspect of the game and Season 2 gonna be filled with that shyt. Damn shame.

It was a top 2 or 3 section of the game because of the infected encounters not story elements, the show ain’t gonna be like the game where every episode has a mandatory 10-15 minute shoot out with infected or military

Bill barley got any story in the game. The most we know from him is left in a note and stuff we find around town, which you can’t really do in tv

 

[spacewraith]

It looks like they might age down Henry and Sam?

 

[Carl Tethers]

Lol I agree I was like how you're gonna let Another Man come to your crib, eat your food, boss you around and turn you out?

Dude was giving orders and wouldn't even say please

Made that man his bottom bytch fr

 

[The_Sheff]

So they took the "Bill's Town" section of the game, which is top 2 or 3 parts of the game, and used it to tell a backstory about Bill and his gay lover?

And Joel and Ellie didn't even interact with Bill?


Low key just thought I'd be able to watch a show where everything wasn't sexualized. I'm sure they'll lean heavy into the DLC aspect of the game and Season 2 gonna be filled with that shyt. Damn shame.

Honestly Bill’s town as presented in the game would be just like what we just experienced with Tess only instead of a mass runner boss fight it’s a bloater.

 

[DaddyFresh]

Gonna be in heavy discussion for best episode of the year easily. They’re gonna win a writing Emmy for this episode for sure. 10/10.

Offerman killed it. When he was crying like a baby when he couldn’t swallow losing Frank was gut wrenching. That was a beautifully well done love story.

 

[OJ Simpsom]

I just fast forward through any gay shyt on tv shows now. Act like we're still slaves to live tv brehs.
We in the fast food era of tv now. If you dont want pickles in your meal, just take them out.

 

[Uchiha God]

Brehs got a point, tho. What are the chances that the last two gay nikkas on Earth found each other?

This is retarded. They aren’t the last two gay dudes on earth. There are literally community/settlements that can be classed as “villages” that still function societally in the last of us world <- that will come later.

There are also quarantine zones with hundreds/thousands of people. There are raider groups etc

Some of these guys are bound to have never stepped foot in Harlem

Although, like I said before, they were trying to sell this love story but Frank came off like an opportunist to me. Bill was a poorly adjusted middle aged loner - damn near virgin. That dude Frank didn’t want to go back in the world and decided to introduce him to Babylon just so he could enjoy the comforts. Frank is pretty much Gator Reloaded or Cozy Carl of Coli persuasion

 

[RickyGQ]

Offerman killed it. When he was crying like a baby when he couldn’t swallow losing Frank was gut wrenching. That was a beautifully well done love story.

Even the piano scene where we were slowly learning what was going on was magnificent.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Nobody:

Every single TV show:

Spoiler

 

[Carl Tethers]

That dude Frank didn’t want to go back in the world and decided to introduce him to Babylon just so he could enjoy the comforts. Frank is pretty much Gator Reloaded or Cozy Carl of Coli persuasion

Frank watching Bill play the piano like

 

[WMG the 2nd]

Brehs got a point, tho. What are the chances that the last two gay nikkas on Earth found each other?

Lol at you thinking they the last two gay nikkas

 

[En Sabah Nur]

If this episode triggered you, then you need to stop the show entirely because you're going to have an aneurysm in season 2

And I'd have no problem throwing this show in the bushes
I fast forwarded like a mf through this episode...my watch time was probably about 25 minutes
Had my nikka Ron Swanson picking strawberries all googly eyed