The Last of Us Season 1 Episode 3 Review | Bill's Story 

Plot twist: Bill was once a former employee on HHM in the 90s, before resigning from the firm and moved to Lincoln, Massachusetts.

As someone who’s played the first game around 5 times, this by FAR is my favorite episode. The new take on bill was amazing.

It kind of amuses/annoys me when people speak so blithely about 'moving on' after a significant loss. Like it’s a stubbed toe and you just have to grin and bear it for five minutes. Some things you don’t ever get over. They fundamentally change your life and you shouldn’t expect them not to.

I'm glad that these characters weren't just briefly introduced before dying in a gruesome way, like I expected. I think Bill and Frank represented hope in a world where it seems that all is lost. I also believe that the letter from Bill hit Joel hard and that was important too.

I'm not really a gamer but I love quality TV shows. And this is a banger. Also it proves that it's possible to include representation of marginalized population while still telling a great story. I love the idea of inclusion but I find it often forces quality content to take a back seat in the name of ticking diversity boxes. I often find myself asking why a show/movie can't do both, and these guys did.

Final Zangetsu I’ve really been enjoying the last of us. I played the game and I love how great this adaption is. This episode was fantastic. Awesome video and insights Kiwi!

I’m actually really interested in seeing if they rearrange the events of what happens in the second season because I’d really like to be able to grow attached to Abby before we go through the first two hours of the game.

Episode was a tad slow, but I still liked it. The only think I missed is the banter between Bill and Ellie

It is a lovely romantic story. My one gripe is the timing. I have never played the game, so I do not care about the fidelity to or deviation from it. You (rightly IMO) compare this to TWD's Here's Not Here. I think Long, Long, Time is the better story on its own, but as you point out Here's Not Here came in season six, not in the third episode. As someone new to this universe (if not the zombie or post-apocalypse genre) I am still settling in with these characters and this world. I really didn't feel like now was the time to take our focus off the main characters and their story.

I loved episode 3. To be honest I thought Bill and Frank's story were much better here than the game. I watch the episodes with my family and I've never seen my mother cry so much at something

On The Walking Dead, much as I enjoyed the series (at least through season 6), I wouldn't say the changes to the story were mostly for the better. A lot of them were done to drag out the story so that they would not catch up with the comics, which led to season arcs feeling padded or slow. This broke the series (or nearly so depending on you're pov) in season 7 (after issue 100 of the comics), in which the All Out War arc (12 briskly paced issues in the comics) was dragged out to a season and a half with often tedious meanderings from the main plot. Thankfully Last of Us seems to be limiting itself to two short seasons, so I don't think it will have the same problem.

I’ve never played the game but I love this show. This episode was fantastic and it’s the only show I’ve been able to get into since Better Call Saul ended.

I really wanted Nick to go Rambo. That was slightly disappointing.

Keep it real

I’m gonna be honest I think I prefer bills story compared to the game. Honestly a perfect episode

You don’t give it to bill. But you can leave it without reading it.

This is one of the most polarizing episodes of TV ive ever seen and I hate that. I liked parts and disliked others it was a very mid episode imo. Personally I prefer Bill from the games we got to see a bit of him at the start of the episode but I would have liked to see him carry on after franks death and meet ellie. I think joel and ellie meeting him would have been a much more impactful ending. Especially if he got franks death from the game (hanging himself) imagine if bill did that in front of the painting that frank did too...man maybe thats too far but it would have been a great spin on the games story which didnt focus on frank that much.

Wonder if Saul got out of prison once the pandemic happened. I say spinoff.

I skipped all the f scenes

This episode was way better than the 2nd. I also agree it's hard to rate it against #1. I definitely liked #3 more but #1 was probably better, technically. Then again, #1 was like 2 hours. As soon as we reach the halfway point, I'll have to rewatch everything from the beginning though because I apparently missed a couple things in #1 since the long episode kept getting interrupted. This was technically my first time watching an episode all the way through from start to end (without having to pause to deal with meowing roommates) but I really loved the pacing, the characters, and the tone. My favorite scene was Bill getting riled up about Frank trading one of his guns and then immediately calming down when Frank assured him it was one of the little ones! 😂

As a gay man I actually wasn't really into the whole romance. I just didn't see the chemistry between them until they got old, and until the sex scene I thought Frank is going to take advantage of Bill and kill him to steal his stuff. Sex scene I honestly skipped initially because it's 2 hairy men in their 50s having sex which is a bit unappealing to me, doesn't help that Nick Offerman has that really bushy chest hair that reminds me of my grandpa and thus totally weirds me out. Although it's refreshing not to see yet another stereotypical young pretty and buff gay couple and the allegory to the AIDS crisis is lovely.

I’m saddened by a lot of these comments. The fact there’s people here who still assume gayness is just woke shit and can’t even enjoy a show if it’s involved anymore. How embarrassing.

Episode 7 made for kids or something

Wow some of y’all really still homophobic?

3:02 I agree with this completely. I went looking for a discussion about this episode to see if anybody else felt the same. They really made this episode super well. Great improvements to the original/all around story.

People that complain about woke culture don’t deserve good tv

I’m still a bit annoyed that an entire episode was dedicated to their relationship (what does it contribute to the overarching story?). I feel totally uncomfortable watching male love scenes (them in bed), and absolutely hate woke propaganda, HOWEVER, I couldn’t help be moved by the acting, emotion and story telling nonetheless.

worst episode ever

f word episode

The episode was unneccary and could have easily had the same effect in 5 minutes, not an entire episode. This is a tv-show, they have a lot of source material that according to them couldn't fit in the time frame, yet they give us this completely irrelevant story. It bill was alive when they arrived then it's fine, long but fine. The fact that they would build all of this up from the first episode with the radio and end with this shitty conclusion, feels forced and who are we kidding, we know it was. This is bullshit and a sign of what's to come. Episode 2 had more lines and screen time by almost every character over Joel. "he does what I say" really summed up his character in the show. You can argue that it is because those other characters die eventually so they gave them extra time but how far does that go when everyone dies, "some" sooner than others? out of 3 episodes, the hero, protaganist, the main character... only gets what, the beggining half of episode one? the rest of the time he is following orders, silently

Love story? 2 men? Lol. Bye