'The Last of Us' Episo 3, featurg Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett as gay uple Bill and Frank, is earng an overwhelmgly posive reactn om fans.
Contents:
- THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
- THE LAST OF US EPISO 3 REVIEW BOMBED BEE GAYS EXIST
- WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?
THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
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She told CNN that, while playg the game for the first time, her “gaydar pged” when Bill mentned his “partner, ” but by the time she read Frank’s suici note, she wonred if she’d misunrstood – maybe the pair were jt bs partners and nothg more, she thought. ” Riley MacLeod of the Washgton Post noted that however movg their story was to viewers, Bill and Frank still “fall to well-worn gay ath trop” – a gay man phg another gay man, sickened by an unknown disease, a wheelchair; an image often shown storyl about HIV-posive characters – and are seemgly the “only two queer people the world.
THE LAST OF US EPISO 3 REVIEW BOMBED BEE GAYS EXIST
A cric for Logo TV wrote that the game rced Bill to a “punchle” after Ellie jok about a gay porn magaze she fds. Fanbyte reported on Bill’s stg the TV seri as a “gay (the show) will probably bury. ” Even the wily praised 2022 remake of the game was a “remr of s ‘bury your gays’ romance, ” said Ja Kg of The Gamer, an article that year.
(The “bury your gays” trope refers to the equent killg off of gay characters media. “To get almost two full s wh someone you love is a gift, and to get a time of so much ath and stctn feels even more special, so ’s really nice to see happen for gay people, ” she told CNN.
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.
WAS BILL GAY THE LAST OF US GAME?
Wh Bill and Frank, we were given a portra of love—specifilly gay love—that feels surprisg and urgent.