This time, the gay story foc on Ellie.
Contents:
- HBO’S THE LAST OF US GETS REVIEW BOMBED AFTER HISTORIC GAY EPISO
- ‘THE LAST OF US’ PRENTS AN ACHGLY BETIFUL GAY LOVE STORY
- HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
- THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
- THE LAST OF US EPISO 3 REVIEW BOMBED BEE GAYS EXIST
HBO’S THE LAST OF US GETS REVIEW BOMBED AFTER HISTORIC GAY EPISO
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All tak is a simple Google search to figure out that this is simply the act of homophobic ter trolls. In the game, while not overtly shown, Bill is gay.
‘THE LAST OF US’ PRENTS AN ACHGLY BETIFUL GAY LOVE STORY
A man who his alone a bunker, after all, don’t have to worry about beg rejected, by eher homophob or other gay men who simply aren’t terted. 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. The game’s storyle don’t avoid trop altogether, though: It was cricized for “buryg s gays.
HBO’S THE LAST OF US IMPROV ON THE GAME’S IMPLIED GAY ROMANCE
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 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.
THE LAST OF US’ GEO GAY LOVE STORY COULD NOT BE MORE TIMELY
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.
Acrdg to crics who have seen the show, we're gettg a whole lot more of The Last of Us' gay characters than we Last of Us follows Joel and Ellie as they travel across a post-apolyptic Ameri tryg to avoid fung-fected zombi. "Once aga, The Last of Us has shown how to do a tly great gay episo of the latt episo, Ellie (Bella Ramsey) is tryg to save Joel’s (Pedro Pasl) life after he was stabbed, and we’re treated to flashbacks showg her life before she got b and went off on her flashbacks beg when Ellie starts to act out at the FEDRA school she was attendg, and seems to happen whenever other stunts mentn a specific iend she ed to have. However, spe both gay-foced episos of this show endg wh gay characters dyg, ’s not the same kd of Bury Your Gays trope that you see shows like Game of Thron.
THE LAST OF US EPISO 3 REVIEW BOMBED BEE GAYS EXIST
In this show, we do know that gay people n live happy liv and fd love. Prevly, the third episo explored a gay love story between two men named Bill and Frank, played by Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett.
The episo was immediately praised as one of the bt episos of TV (not jt gay TV) years, wh special praise beg given to the wrg and both actors’, wh this episo focg on Ellie’s queerns, The Last of Us shows that wasn’t a fle. This show knows how to tell a gay story! Your Se ArticlCheck Out the 1st Trailer for HBO's 'The Last of Us' TV Seri ›'The Last of Us' Star Bella Ramsey Com Out as Genr Fluid ›Queer-Inclive Show 'The Last of Us' Renewed For Season 2 at HBO ›'The Last of Us' Star Storm Reid Shuts Down Homophobic Viewers ›Pedro Pasl Has No Time For Homophobic 'The Last of Us' Qutns ›Here's What We Know About 'The Last of Us' Season Two ›.
When lookg closer at the one-star ratgs, many brg up the fact that Bill is gay, dubbg the episo a "borg" romance. Other one-star reviews are angry that a gay man met a gay man, dubbg pletely unlikely, while the same breath mentng a girl who is somehow immune to a vis that has torn down the walls of society as we know . It's fairly obv what the mon thread is across this sudn flux of negative reviews - a gay uple dared exist.