The Last of Us 1x3 | Long, Long Time | Did It Make Me Cry? 

They got to live out their lives together and go out on their own terms. In a world as terrible as this, they won.

I'm by far not the first person to say this, but... Bill knew how to survive. Frank taught him how - and why - to *live*. What an episode.

According to the showrunner, Frank had a neuromuscular degenerative disease, like MS or ALS. You can see the fairly rapid onset in the painting he was working on. Also, the entire series was filmed in Alberta, Canada.

Why that day - it was the day after Frank found he could no longer paint.

36:43 I think the “shock” this show gave us was a beautiful love story in the middle of a zombie apocalypse story 😭

this is every doomsday prepper's perfect fantasy: not only do you get to be proven right when society collapses and everyone you hate and called you crazy dies, having your soulmate drop in (literally) is the absolute cherry on top. despite all your prep, you still had a big hole in your life. frank filled it.

Buckle up Anna. It's balls to the wall for the next six episodes. Be prepared to be shocked, saddened, cry, and most of all linger in this world. It's an amazing series and I can't wait for you to get to the rest of it. I need you to get to all of them now! Yeah, I'm like that. Great reaction. Thank you.

Yup, one of the themes in this show is the difference between surviving and living. It’s really not a zombie/ monster show. It certainly has genre elements and some set pieces, but probably fewer than you’d expect. The story is really about relationships, focusing on our two main characters, but we’ll also see that among others.

7:46 think about the first episode and how many opportunities Joel almost had to get infected by eating food made with contaminated flour. he didn't take the biscuits from the neighbor. he didn't get the birthday cake he was supposed to get. he was very lucky, in a way

You made me happy when you said "with whom" 19:34 😂. I love it when people get it right.

this is why it's great for people to not try and spoil things for others. if you just go into something not expecting what emotions to feel you would have a much more earnest reaction to things. but people can't help themselves from telling other people what's coming up

You chose your words very well; one of the best outro's for this episode!

Yes, it's gonna linger. For a long, long time.

They laughed at the toast request because there's no bread to make toast with. The fungus grew in grain/flour.

2:20 those of us who live in Boston were cackling at that label when this episode first aired - that's very obviously the pacific northwest and it's a lot more than 10 miles west of here

As an author you might appreciate that this episode is the biggest deviation from the games, but one virtually all fans loved. In the game, we meet up with Bill, alive, looking for a car battery. Frank had abandoned him, though we later find him dead by self hanging after he was bit. Bill was extra paranoid, cynical, mean, and miserable. We learn that he drove Frank off, and while its not explicitly stated they were in a relationship, it was heavily hinted, and Bill just couldn't allow himself to trust or be vulnerable. Despite how different the two set ups are, I love how they serve as two sides of the same narrative purpose. Joel is also closed off due to his trauma, game Bill shows him what he will become if continues to stay closed off, while show Bill showed him what he could have if were to let himself be open to people again. Both set the stage for Joel's slowly admitting to himself that he cares what happens to Ellie (who obviously reminds him of Sarah). Show Bill and Frank's better life, and the more positive spun narrative device was a much better touch for the theme of the story. Neil, the original creator, even agreed stating he wish he had thought to do it this way first.

It made me cry.

I have played The Last Of Us Part 1 at least a dozen times, & I can say that this show is the best video game adaptation ever! It does what any good adaptation should do; be mostly loyal to the original source material, but change just enough so there's something new yet still enjoyable to watch. For example, about 80% of what we see in the 1st 3 episodes is from the 1st few levels of the game, but the remaining 20% is things like expanded backstory & more development for certain characters we didn't originally get. Here's hoping Season 2 is as good & faithful when they adapt Part 2.

I watched this episode when it first came out and it still lingers in my mind, I loved everything about it. I think its also very much a mirror for Joel and Ellie and what Joel will decide to do with letting someone in or not.

1 of the differences between the show & the video game is that in the show the outbreak began in 2003 when George W. Bush was President (as we saw in Episode 1) instead of 2013 like in the game, which means gay marriage wasn't legal nationwide in The U.S. yet. So, theoretically 1 additional reason why Bill & Frank chose to live on their own instead of in the Boston QZ was because they were a gay couple & they might have been discriminated against for that.

I thoroughly annoyed my friends saying that the wine, a 2002 Jadot Beaujolais Villages, would not be drinkable 20 years later even under perfect storage conditions.

In regards to a continuous gas supply - one can heat wood in a metal container and distill out the vapors that boil off. It's called "wood gas" and can even be used to power an internal combustion engine.

Given how popular the "Video Game Character Bill" is, this is an amazing alternative to these 2 characters. Well done on the reaction.

7:45 Joel, Tommy and Sarah dodged a major bullet. First they were out of pancake mix (contaminated), then they did not accept the Biscuits (contaminated), then Sarah did not take home the Raison Cookies (contaminated) and Joel forgot the Birthday Cake (contaminated.)

Frank chose "That day" because he was unable to look after himself any more, he was failing to paint a picture of Bill earlier, failing to eat "good food" and failing to pick out the pills he needed, so if he waited a month, he might not have been able to lift himself out of bed any more, not watch Bill asleep in bed on his last day. In the game Bill was alone and there his purpose was to be a reason to go on more game episodes, and to show Joel what he'd become if he didn't steer a different course, here, because there is no game, there is no game reason for Bill to be alone here, and so Bill was there to show Joel what his life could be like if he let love in.

ANNA - TLOU! Thank goodness! As always... you took away / understood the beats of a good story. And as sad as this is... Bill and Frank led their best possible lives in this broken world. Welcome to an epic story that you... as a storyteller... will thoroughly appreciate.

"How far away from Boston is that topography?" Pretty damn far, actually. It's Canada. :)

This episode. Every damn time. Fun fact: Bill's opening line of "Not teday you New World Order Jackboot fucks" was originally just a note in the margin to let Ron Swanson know what Bill's thought process was, but when he read that he told the director "I'm saying this." and they let him... Also, one of the most beautiful things about this episode, to me, is that although you could argue that it's essentially a Bury Your Gays episode, since they do die by the end, they actually get to have a full and loving life together. Something pretty rare in most 'big' shows. Plus, like you said, they went out on their own terms, which is even more rare in these big shows. They lived their lives on their terms, together, and they left this world in their terms. Together.

If Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett do not get an Award for this show I will be personally offended on their behalf. Bill & Frank an Epic Love story we didn't know we needed. Thank you Naughty Dog & HBO. Bill knew how to Survive... Frank knew how to LIVE. Together they were perfect. 22:17 Rule #32 (If you know you know.) 24:57 According to show runners, Frank had ALS.

27:24 What makes this scene more beautiful is in this Universe the Same-Sex Marriage Law was never passed. So this is Bill & Frank sticking it to The Man on final time.

Glad you let it out. I was about to ask, is your heart made of ice, woman!? 😂 J/K Nice to hear your thought process at the end. I’d say I’ve watched a few dozen reactions to this episode and I still love finding new ones and listening to what people think about it.

Hands down my favourite love story told on TV this year and it's on a Zombie show. The irony, wasn't lost on me.

@Anna Alexander In the game they start off good. Then drift apart. Joel and Ellie show up. They go looking for supplies. Find Franks body, he hung himself. He got bitten. He left a letter for Bill. Basically saying he hated him..... Dont expect to see any zombies until they fat lady shows up. Then thats about it. Cross the country, see handful of zombies. So scary!?

I think the difference is that the creator, Neil Druckmann, takes this world as the apocalypse has come and gone. Its over and this is The Last of Us. To me that is a better basis to tell the story. We are always in stories that lead to a dramatic world saving or world ending conclusion. This story starts and the world has already ended and the remainder of humanity is just biding its time before it ends. Bringing that to the real world it is shocking to me to understand the end of the world does not have to come with a big explosion or event but we could easily reach a point of no return and things just wind down to an end. What would become of us as The Last of Us try to survive into the next world and if we even could.

Bill and frank deserved this ❤

Consider a small town, lets say 200 people, that has a gas storage facility with a 6 month supply, or in other words, gas supply for 1,200 month = 100 years if there is suddenly only one person left, or around 50 years worth for Bill and Frank.

If this was Walking Dead or several mainstream popular shows, even ones I like like Game of Thrones, would've interrupted them too, to have it all ruined. I super appreciate this show for not being shocking for shockings sake. When something seems like it's going to go bad it does, it's unpredictably predictable so that there are twists without doing 180s. And I really appreciate the series long for that, and it lingers more.

PREPPER FOR LIFE!! YASS

"how did they space their wine out" i have no doubt he was distilling his own various wines/spirits/beers! as an alcoholic (currently on a big sober streak) i do always wonder about things like that in shows too, and it pains me when a character leaves a drink on the table without finishing it! enjoyed the video

This episode was a beautiful love story.

23:50 I always think it's funny when people think Bill got shot because Frank distracted him. He was standing out in the open and was shot at, so he was completly at the mercy of his opponents ability to aim properly. No amount of concentration could have saved him.

Ok ... I've watched this series several times now, really love it, but you found one of the very few points that caught a bit in the throat of my mind as it went down - all those crushed pills in that glass of wine would have been like drinking mud. 😂 ... other than that, even Ellie going down into the basement of the store didn't bother me because, no, even now they don't teach self preservation in schools, and if they did, kids wouldn't listen 🤷 ... i was able to suspend my disbelief over the fact that there aren't mountains like those in the background 10 miles out of Boston ... Canada was cheaper, i guess

Lol, I always cry at the death scene in Baron Munchausen, and once you know the film it’s not even a sad scene, but I do anyway. And also I’m allegedly an adult, but whatever.

There is a difference between survivalists and preppers.

ahhh love

❤️❤️

You stopped laughing for a moment there ;) hehe

so you have your subtitles on but we cannot see them?

3 episodes down 3 different emotions exposed to fresh air, 6 more emotional surgeries to go before we get to 2 raw humans…….. oops no more before I spoils anything

Maybe the reason you didn't trust those events playing out the way they did is because you're a But Then writer as opposed to an And Then writer.

I don't understand why guilt? Yes they have to take Eliie but she is cargo they said it repeatedly, besides didn't hear Ellie saying take me , she wasn't even part of the decision-making, I don't think Joel was either, Marlene and Tess decide "if they don't give us what we need we kill her there and then" Marlene said OK and Ellie said "Really? that fast?": She was cargo like a TV, if something goes wrong you are going to blame the TV? Blame Marlene, sure she is the adult, more difficult than a kid, but sorry, that's how it goes, kids don't usually have a say in these things. And adults still blame them.

I just thought it was so nice of the gay fairy to guide Frank to Bill's hole, despite near impossible odds. I like the parts of the episode with Joel & Ellie.😅😅😅😅😅😅

Awww...Anna...do you need a hug?! :)

TLOU is so draining mentally.. yhe pay offs are fleeting but the message is consistent... Am at a stage of still waiting for the ultimate pay off ... the one my heart craves and the one that makes all the pain of umpteen play throughs and umpteen views of the show... payoff... Part 3 may never bring that either... Yhe message is probably way to yo deep for me to fully grasp but regardless yhis franshise has did more to my development as a person than any other before.. made me appreciate being selfish and empathetic or even apathetic as i can be at times .. i feel yhen...maybe it's doing what was intended . I gind yhe franchise brutally real and eye opening ..

Long, long thing behind the towel..

OK, time for the controversial take: this episode was just Emmy bait, and I would have rather spent most of it with Ellie and Joel. I understand that Frank and Bill was supposed to sort of be a mirror of the main characters to further examine their relationship, but a better way to examine their relationship is to (gasp) spend more time with ACTUAL Joel and ACTUAL Ellie. It's well done, but with such a limited episode count, shunting the main characters off to the side for nearly a full episode feels wasteful.

To me this episode was very pandering. In the game Frank is already dead and he and Bill weren’t a couple anymore. Bill was only in the game for a short bit.