The last of us (HBO)

Was able to watch last night.

Remarkable hour of television. Teared up briefly at the final wine scene. Offerman was really fantastic

 

I'm finally trying to play thru the game and am up to where they meet Bill

 

Late to the party but the scene where Bill raids Home Depot and builds a fortress was amazing

 

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i actually thought that was a nice way to illustrate how he changed after meeting frank. prepper bill would have been ready for (and probably waiting on) a raider assault because his sole purpose was survival. meeting frank changed that, and i think showing his panicked and poorly thought out response to the attack was kind of a subtle way of showing that his survivalist instincts had waned in the years he spent with frank. frank gave him something else to focus on

 

I can get down with this theory

 

according to my guide this doesn’t come on until midnight tonight??

 

Comes out on HBO Max on Sunday nights @ 9

 

I watch on Monday night anyways

 

Didn’t think it was bad, but it was the weakest of the 4

very walking dead-esque

 

Lady Mormont is really good in this

 

Another good one. Guess they had to give “the resistance” a face. Next episode should be incredible.

 

it was a part 1 episode to episode 5’s part 2

 

Looks like Part 2 will have more background info on the KC neonazi group and the two characters at the end

Can’t wait

 

That was the best Ellie episode so far. It was nice of Bella Ramsey to soften her up some more. Excited to see how they've changed Henry and Sam.

 

Just finished the game part with Bill. Definitely agree the show is better. Game Bill is fine for what you need, but the show gives him so much more depth

 

The first time I saw them it looked like 2 young boys. I was super confused (not a gamer). Went back and watched again and realized only 1 of them was a young boy.

 

maybe I missed something, but why are we calling the resistance group nazis?

 

Just seems off seeing a large group of mostly white people hunt down two african american men

 

oh come on

 

Sometimes I cant tell if dump is just trying too hard or if he actually thinks it

 

The other one looked fairly young too. One was 10ish the other 16/17?

Kind of hard to tell

 

Henry is supposed to be an adult, kinda hard to tell from what we saw how old he is on the show.

 

I’m horrible with ages because I’m an old man now, but Henry was in his twenties I believe in the game. Looks like Sam is much younger though so they could have aged Henry down as well for the show.

 

One definitely is an adult and one is definitely a kid. Took me watching twice but I’m pretty confident in that now.

 

Forget about what they looked like. Just listen to the dialog about them. It was clear that Henry was an adult.

 

I assume he’s the guy the one crazy lady is desperately looking for

 

Thank god the game purists got their "why are these pages stuck together" gay porn mag scene, if only that was included in last week's episode.

 

Finally watched Ep 3 last night. Really good. I know it was a longer episode than the first two but I kind of wanted more of him building his compound.

Seeing who Tess and Joel were getting the radio music signals from was a nice a way to tie them together because I was wondering where Bill fit into the Joel storyline.

 

I found every scene with Kathleen to be laugh out loud bad.

 

I also have a tough time taking that actress seriously because I associate her with Two and a Half Men.

 

I remember her from Up In The Air, played Clooney's sister

 

Yeah she was not good, or just miscast, or both. Someone in the other thread alluded to the fact that she's supposed to be intentionally out of place. I don't really get it. Like watching Megan Mullally as a dictator.

 

I thought Megan Mullally too, which is amazing bc she’s married to Nick Offerman

 

well the positive in this is that she’ll likely be dead soon. Seems to be most characters are going to be short term characters aside from Joel and Ellie. I should add I have not played the game

 

She comes across as someone trying to act hard/tough even though that’s not who they are. She is out of her element and out of place. She comes off as desperate and on the cusps of falling apart.

 

I mean thats probably the point. Grief of losing her brother has her desperate looking for answers and who she thinks is the one who ratted himself out

I don’t think this is supposed to be a well put together militia group but moreso a bunch of desperate people with a couple of them having military experience and capturing the right moment to take down a QZ

 

Which is fine, but what qualities made HER be in charge?

 

I would guess it has something to do with her brother

 

It’s funny to me that people are so quick to draw conclusions on Kathleen who had like…5 minutes of screen time? 10 tops? Maybe she’s supposed to be coming off this way, perhaps there’s more story to tell. The show has done a fantastic job with character development so far.

Hopefully we find out more on Friday.

 

Definitely felt like a bridge episode, good, but not top tier like the others.

 

Why is the floor breathing?

 

I assume it's a way the fungus can get inside buildings, but I have no idea.