After HBO's The Last of Us received near-universal acclaim, the latest episode is getting review bombed by homophobic internet trolls.
The Last of Us Has an Entire Episode Focused on Its Gay Characters Critics are already calling the show one of the best of the year.
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 rewards of that added time are showcased best in The Last of Us ’ stunning third installment, directed by BAFTA Award-winning director Peter Hoar (It’s A Sin) and written by Mazin. Over the course of 80 minutes, the episode takes a gay relationship mentioned only in passing in the source material and turns it into a decades-spanning character study embodying the show’s overarching.