Contents:
- HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
- BELLA RAMSEY SAYS ‘LAST OF US’ TROLLS SHOULD ‘GET USED’ TO GAY STORYL ON THE SHOW: HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH ‘ISN’T GONNA MAKE ME AAID’
- THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
- Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’
- THE LAST OF US EPISO 3 REVIEW BOMBED BEE GAYS EXIST
- ‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
Episo three of HBO's "The Last of Us" sparked homophobic backlash om some viewers.
Homophobia has long been an issue the gamg muny and larger fandoms. The latt episo of HBO's vio-game adaptatn "The Last of Us" has been wily praised — but 's also spired fierce backlash, shg a light on what have been persistent issu the gamg muny and larger cultural fandoms: homophobia and anti-LGBTQ iology. Sunday's episo, tled "Long, Long Time, " picts a gay romance between Bill, played by Nick Offerman, and Frank, played by Murray Bartlett.
BELLA RAMSEY SAYS ‘LAST OF US’ TROLLS SHOULD ‘GET USED’ TO GAY STORYL ON THE SHOW: HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH ‘ISN’T GONNA MAKE ME AAID’
"Plenty more reviews acced the episo of phg LGBT "propaganda" or a "gay agenda. "Insir even received an email om a rear rponse to s story about the episo beg review-bombed, which further exemplifi this homophobia.
"The rponse om some homophobic fans to Sunday's episo nearly a after "gamergate, " a far-right onle movement agast "progrsivism" gamg, built on racism, sexism, homophobia, and of "gamergate" uld be seen cricism agast "The Last of Us Part II, " the 2020 vio game sequel, which Ellie's sexualy is further explored. Some er reviews on Metacric clud homophobic ments. HBO's latt episo of "The Last of Us, " s new vio-game adaptatn, aired Sunday to wispread praise and imprsive the episo, tled "Long, Long Time, " is seemgly gettg review-bombed by angry, homophobic fans of the the review aggregator Metacric, the episo has a er ratg of 4.
THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
9, the past, review-bombg — or when people liberately give a show or movie a low ratg to crease s sre on s like Metacric and Rotten Tomato — has typilly occurred for racist, sexist, or homophobic reasons. Lookg through the er reviews, 's clear that some of the game's fans didn't like the episo's central love story between Bill, played by Nick Offerman, and Frank, played by Murray the game, 's evint that Bill is gay and had a relatnship wh Frank, who never appears HBO seri tak their relatnship a different directn: In a flashback, Frank across Bill's hoe after beg the lone survivor of a group travelg to the Boston quarante zone. "Here are two girls who are both gay, and their sexualy is nfg to them and sry to them.
The revolutn that we've gone through as a culture to bee acceptg of homosexualy and whatever we'd ll non-hetero normative sexuali hasn't occurred… this world, that stuff is still 'problematic' as they say. Dpe beg review-bombed for beg a gay love story, "Long, Long Time" still received rave reviews om crics and holds a 98% on Rotten Tomato. Bill is gay the game, but ’s referenced so vaguely that plenty of players missed .
Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’
The cisn to keep muted, hted at a sgle le of dialogue and a hidn letter, was both praised and cricized — was easy to overlook, but also avoid a lot of gay-character trop, and allowed Bill to be a human and not “a maniftatn of sexualy, ” as Polygon’s Danielle Rien put at the time.
THE LAST OF US EPISO 3 REVIEW BOMBED BEE GAYS EXIST
The game’s storyle don’t avoid trop altogether, though: It was cricized for “buryg s gays. Bella Ramsey has a msage for homophobic viewers upset about gay storyl makg their way to HBO’s blockbter new seri “The Last of Us”: “Get ed to .
The HBO seri earned cril acclaim for s third episo, which expand on the source material to tell a gay love story between characters Bill and Frank.
‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
Toxic fans review bombed the episo on webs such as IMDb, but Bill and Frank’s romance is jt the begng of gay reprentatn on “The Last of Us. If you don’t want to watch the show bee has gay storyl, bee has a trans character, that’s on you, and you’re missg out.