Episo 3 of The Last Of Us explored Bill and Frank's heartwrenchg relatnship but fans have been askg if Bill was gay the game.
Contents:
- HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
- GAMER EXPLAS WHY BILL AND FRANK TOTALLY WEREN’T GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAME, YOU GUYS
- WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? RELATNSHIP WH FRANK EXPLAED
HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
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.
GAMER EXPLAS WHY BILL AND FRANK TOTALLY WEREN’T GAY ‘THE LAST OF US’ GAME, YOU GUYS
The game’s storyle don’t avoid trop altogether, though: It was cricized for “buryg s gays. Like, what’s gay about a zombie apolypse? I mean, I’ve only played The Last of Us Part One, but I’m pretty sure there aren’t ANY gay characters.
I’ve even played the Left Behd DLC, and the libs like to say ’s gay, but ’s so totally not. Boys don’t though, e that’s gay.
WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME? RELATNSHIP WH FRANK EXPLAED
Nothg gay about science. This is why Bill And Frank are f NOT gay the game Don’t believe the hype, bro. There are SO MANY reasons why Bill and Frank aren’t gay the game.
” But fely NOT a gay way. It’s fely not gay to dance wh your bros when there aren’t any girls around. And sometim when he dips me and I look to his ep green ey they remd me of soft, rollg fields of grass that I jt want to stretch out naked on wh him while the sun warms our glisteng bodi—but totally NOT a gay way.
I thk I need to tell Kyle somethg … that I love him … forever … But TOTALLY not a gay way. 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 ratgs.But the episo, tled "Long, Long Time," is seemgly gettg review-bombed by angry, homophobic fans of the game.On the review aggregator Metacric, the episo has a er ratg of 4.2 (out of 10) as of Tuday morng — much lower than the first and send episo's sr of 8.8 and 8.9, rpectively.In 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 Bartlett.In the game, 's evint that Bill is gay and had a relatnship wh Frank, who never appears on-screen.The 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.