HBO’s The Last of Us expands Bill & Frank’s gay romance om the game - Polygon

Contents:

• 'THE LAST OF US': LA ROMPEDORA HISTORIA AMOR GAY
• HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
• FRANK Y BILL: LA HISTORIA LA PAREJA GAY EN «THE LAST OF US»
• VETE AñOS AMOR GAY SEGúN THE LAST OF
• ‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO
• Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’
• ¿ES GAY BILL THE LAST OF US EN EL VIOJUEGO? ¿ES SU FAL DIFERENTE EN LA SERIE HBO?

'THE LAST OF US': LA ROMPEDORA HISTORIA AMOR GAY

Bartlett, un actor abiertamente gay cuyos papel más famosos han sido o personaj homosexual en The Whe Lot, Bienvenidos a Chippendal y Lookg, un pañero cena bien elegido. Es muy probable que Bartlett terprete a un personaje gay: la ia que el personaje Offerman también lo sea florece n tanta liza o la relación la pareja.

A medida que tos juegos se han adaptado a la pantalla, no ha habido exactamente una gran ntidad personaj homosexual para hace que la relación Bill en The Last of Us sea algo atípi. Los argumentos homosexual en televisión, nque no son omniprent, tampo son dos. Bill is gay the game, but ’s referenced so vaguely that plenty of players missed .

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.

HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE

The game’s storyle don’t avoid trop altogether, though: It was cricized for “buryg s gays. La serie «The Last of Us» HBO Max ntúa haciendo e semana tras semana n s episods, en su último pítulo prentó la historia una pareja gay. En la vida real, Murray Bartlett abiertamente homosexual, mientras que Nick Offerman tá sado n la actriz Megan Mullally.

FRANK Y BILL: LA HISTORIA LA PAREJA GAY EN «THE LAST OF US»

What we got stead was a psule episo, and a particularly bracg one, given the show’s opprsively bleak mood th far: The hour is dited to the love story of Bill and Frank, a gay uple who—due ially to Bill’s skills as a bunker-stockg, booby-trappg, Don’t Tread on Me survivalist—manage to build a largely happy existence together an abandoned and eventually fortified ral hamlet for almost 20 years. Wh Bill and Frank, we were given a portra of love—specifilly gay love—that feels surprisg and urgent.

In our own 2023, we are not exactly lackg for media imag of whe gay men.

For one thg, we see gay sire portrayed all s plexy, but wh a touch as light as a breeze playg through curtas. Bill’s is not a “type” of gay man I n say I’ve ever seen mastream media before, and watchg him slowly reveal and epen that aspect of himself wh Frank’s help—sexually, y (Hollywood: more hairy bear love scen please!), but exprsively and culturally as well—is thrillg. But Bill and Frank create somethg else, a ltle oasis of their own that’s regnizably gay, full of quiet bety and joys the size of new strawberri.

VETE AñOS AMOR GAY SEGúN THE LAST OF

Frank wants to fix up the block and some of the “not stupid” shops—the we and furnure stor, the clothg boutique—bee he hop they might one day have unfected guts (which they eventually do, the form of Joel and Ts), but really bee makg thgs nice, pecially when nicens isn’t valued, is one of the great gay llgs. As an echo of the gay experience wh AIDS, is, as veteran activist Peter Staley put a Facebook post, a ftg tribute to the “tenr love & bravery gay men summoned when facg ath durg the plague years, cludg those who did so on their own terms.”. How powerful, then, to see not only a gay uple given an entire hour of a marquee show, but a gay uple who are held up as the keepers of civilizatn, as stewards of bety, as emblems of human digny and possibily.

10 febrero 2023 - 00:45Es difícil saber si la reperción que tuvo el tercer pítulo The Last of Us, la exosa serie HBO Max, don se narra en gran parte una historia amor gay en med l apolipsis zombi osnado por un hongo, hubie sido la misma si hubiera ntado la una pareja heterosexual. Los creador la serie basada en el viojuego homónimo (Craig Maz y Neil Dckmann), que cidieron expandir la relación entre Bill (Nick Offerman) y Frank (Murray Bartlett), revelaron que el episod origal rozaba las dos horas; en el pítulo emido a fal enero, “Long, Long Time”, el romance gay ocupa 75 mutos la hora y cuarto duración, lo que spertó crítis por parte algunos pectador que peraban más acción y menos sentimentalismo.

‘THE LAST OF US’ CONFIRMED THAT BILL WAS GAY YEARS AGO

Como la homofobia suele adoptar diversas másras en la dtria l entretenimiento (y si la jan pue expandirse o el hongo rdyceps), los productor la serie emieron un unido tras la avalancha mensaj od: “Si el universo The Last of Us masiado diverso o progrista para ti, berías jar verlo” hecho signifitivo l pítulo 3 que prenta a dos gays mayor edad, fans Lda Ronstadt (no Madonna ni Dua Lipa), que ennecen juntos mientras se sarrolla la historia. Es gay (madr y tías no dudarían en lifirlo o un “churro”) y siempre se mostró a favor que los actor gays enrnen a personaj gays.

Nick Offerman, que no gay, bió ser nvencido por su posa (la actriz Megan Mullally) a la hora aceptar el papel Bill, el más nmovedor l dúo y el que más mbs be aontar. The show is already garnerg high praise for s third episo, which lved ep to a si story wh two gay characters at s re.

Several more gay characters are sttered among the game’s st, and future episos — and seasons — will see the h characters realized live-actn for the first time. Ellie Image via Nghty Dog That’s right, the lead character The Last of Us is part of the gay muny.

Y, ELLIE HAS ALWAYS BEEN GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’

The character’s sexualy is hted at the Last of Us gam, and many players termed that he was gay, but players didn’t get nearly the romance the origal that HBO livered wh “Long Long Time. LGBTQ+ them are not somethg entirely new to The Last of Us anchise, as the first stallment of the seri also showsed a gay NPC and then a very graceful lbian kiss the Left Behd DLC. Bill is gay and had a relatnship wh a man lled Frank, who is later found ad the game, much to Bill's dismay.

Unlike Da, Bill tri to hi his homosexualy and ially only refers to Frank as someone he had red for. “Long Long Time” has sparked several plats om the worst si of Twter about how The Last of Us allegedly shoehorned a gay relatnship. But the fact is Bill has always been gay.

¿ES GAY BILL THE LAST OF US EN EL VIOJUEGO? ¿ES SU FAL DIFERENTE EN LA SERIE HBO?

So yeah, Bill has always been gay.