They share a delicious meal prepared by Bill, still reticent, while Frank is eager and giddy to dine, shower and spend time with another human being. When Bill (Nick Offerman) realizes Frank isn’t sick, he must quickly acclimate to the idea of helping another person after years of isolation. Their story in the TV adaptation isn’t exactly a meet-cute: Frank (Murray Bartlett), a survivor from Baltimore, falls in a hole Bill dug to trap raiders and the infected who stumble near his rural Massachusetts home. In the game, the most backstory we receive is the blistering note Frank leaves for Bill, who is briefly devastated by Frank’s harsh words but continues to get Joel and Ellie the help they need, never again mentioning his former partner. Happy endings are exceedingly rare in apocalyptic storytelling, particularly in “The Last of Us.” But giving one to Bill and Frank, whose story ends in unresolved tragedy in the game, shows yet another side of life after the apocalypse, Sam told CNN, and the “series is stronger for it.”Ī years-long love story unfolds in an hour “I’m replaying the game along with watching the show, and after watching this episode, I just know I’m going to connect even more to Bill emotionally than I did on previous playthroughs.” “I couldn’t have imagined a more beautiful deviation from the canon game content,” said Nic Sam, a writer for the lesbian pop culture site Autostraddle who has long loved the game. But the response, among first-time viewers and devoted fans of the game, has been largely rapturous.
Bill and Frank’s relationship is not the only queer love story to come in “The Last of Us” (and, mild spoiler, it won’t even be the last in this first season of the adaptation).
The episode, “Long, Long Time,” marks the biggest diversion so far in a series that has otherwise stuck closely to its source material. 'The Last of Us' just made an early claim to one of the best TV episodes of 2023 Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett in the third episode of HBO's "The Last of Us." HBO Max
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