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With Bill and Frank's story being told in Episode 3 of The Last of Us, we analyze how their gay romance defies expectation. The storytelling in the Last of Us is incredible. Episode 3 is probably the saddest love story I've seen since the movie UP. I was definitely caught off guard with the switch up after Bill was shot. I thought he was going to die leaving Frank by himself.

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It broke my heart seeing Frank all old and sick. I love this type of queer representation. Gay men are so often portrayed as over-the-top. "Just give me one more good day" From The Last of us episode 3. Bill and Frank were amazing characters and their story together was just beautiful. Nick Offe. What we got instead was a capsule episode, and a particularly bracing one, given the show’s oppressively bleak mood thus far: The hour is dedicated to the love story of Bill and Frank, a gay.

'The Last of Us' Episode 3, featuring Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett as gay couple Bill and Frank, is earning an overwhelmingly positive reaction from fans. Bill was actually happy that the world came to an end.

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I didn't think partner. Then I protected him. Having someone to live for makes all the difference for most people, especially those who hid themselves so deep like Bill. The backstory of Bill Nick Offerman and Frank Murray Bartlett was something the fans had been yearning to know more about for almost a decade, and the series delivered it in an extremely emotional and unexpected way.

Not really living, then, just surviving. I've talked a bit about the meta-ness of this whole situation, where Murray Bartlett has played a gay man.

By the end, he allowed himself to pay so much attention, that he even sorted Frank's medicine using rhymes. They were for me. Every time we would show him something, he'd go, "Oh, I see how you worked that. When Joel and Ellie come to him to help them secure a car, they discover Frank's body in a scene in the suburbs after outrunning the infected. He mentioned to Frank he only had sex once, with a girl, a long time before, which shows how he tried to fit into who he was expected to be, but couldn't, really.

He understands his public. The Greatest Singers of All Time. Not many shows would be brave enough to do that. I saved him. View all posts by Alan Sepinwall. Source: GQ. Moving the plate, turning the plate round a few times. All kidding aside, though, " Long, Long Time " was a masterpiece that seemed written by television deities themselves to make the average viewer dehydrate by watching a beautiful and the last story about love, loneliness and self-acceptance.

He took Frank in because he was allowed to be himself, and not fit into any labels. He's so soft. What Nick did really well is he guarded himself in so many ways as Bill. Rowling or Any Other 'Bullies'. He was already part of the show, but we were still looking for Bill. With Tess gone — though she appears in episodes later in this episode — the series is leaning harder than ever on the Lone Wolf and Cub dynamic between Joel and Ellie that Pedro Pascal already has some familiarity with from his work on The Mandalorian.

Or rather than a spinoff series, maybe it's just a spinoff of Bill, and it's just digging into that one moment. There are a couple of zombies, but they appear only briefly, and are quickly dispatched by first Ellie who finds hers trapped beneath rubble in the opening sequence at Cumberland Farmsand then Bill. Bill ultimately chooses to join him after living a long, happy, fulfilling life with his partner. After being closed off for so long, Bill was only able to gay Frank out of that hole because he understood the importance of helping people in the context they were in.