The first time that Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin’s HBO adaptation of “The Last of Us” majorly deviates from the game is also the first time the show begins to find its voice.
The heartbreaking Season 1 episode “Long, Long Time” tells the intimate 20-year love story between Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett) as the two fall for each other, despite Bill’s more controlling, masculine nature, and even through Frank’s sickness. But in the game, their relationship is merely hinted at when Joel and Ellie discover Frank’s body hanging with a note.
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