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Beau & Aaron review episode 6 of THE LAST OF US on HBO!
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How do you feel about Ellie's actress wearing a binder for this role? The actress is nonbinary and will probably remove her breasts, as Emma D'Arcy in house of the dragon
I do agree that the smaller action moments have left me underwhelmed. The section in the game where Joel gets hurt is thrilling and in this one it just happens in a non exciting way with no real tension. Does not break the show tho, still enjoying it immensely #goodsoup
I like that they addressed my major grievance about not leaving people on the watch at night. Very nice of them to film additional scenes on such short notice.
I find the game is better at making you care abt Joel taking care of ellie because the checkpoint system was fucked so if she died the game would send you all the fkn way back to the upside down bit
Also we got to see Dina for the first time when Ellie was eating and got pissed at her staring at her.
The way they showed Joel's years of repressed trauma catching up with him was actually pretty accurate. I have PTSD, and I think they did a great job portraying what it's really like, when half-buried memories & feelings come roaring to the forefront of your mind all the sudden. It may have seemed strange or awkward to some, but from my experience, it was absolutely spot-on. They were being realistic & I think they did justice to trauma survivors, and weren't just trying to milk sympathy from the audience.
The old couple was so funny! I need a DLC of just them during the outbreak.
Solid episode. 8/10. Perdro's best performance easily. Colorado University part was too rushed.
Y'all nitpicking. It's okay to just enjoy some shit without clawing for complaints…
That’s the most unbelievable part is no one having a copy of Star Wars anywhere 😂
Got my mom on this show, who knows nothing about the game. She told me she has lost sleep because of the cliffhanger. So I think it’s good to know that the non gamers have been sold that Joel is going to die.
Never watch the inside the episode on the first watch!
In one of the episode podcasts, Craig and Neil talked about why they toned down the violence a bit. They talked about how in episode 1, you just see Joel incinerating dead bodies rather than watching the folks get shot. Paraphrasing them below:
“In a video game, you have folks waiting in line to get tested for infection, someone tests positive and FEDRA shoots them right there…. And we all kinda don’t flinch because we expect that in a video game setting. Everyone keeps standing on line waiting for their turn to get scanned. And our suspension of disbelief isn’t there the same way because it’s a video game. But if this happens in real life where you see someone get shot right in front of you? People are screaming, they try to run away, children are crying…. No one would just stand there. So we kinda fudge this paradox by not showing these violent encounters, rather showing the aftermath.”
30:06
Sorry to be a buzz kill…
But I read the last episode is gonna be 43mins. Shortest episode of the season
0:39 Can we please stop referring to the episodes that provide us with incredible character building through emotional interactions and unreal cinematography and world building as "place holder episode[s]"? To refer to them in this way is to disregard how incredibly important they are to a series. They aren't superfluous– not "holding space" at all. They are what elevates a good show into the realm of brilliance.
THE LAST OF US show isn't attempting to be the action heavy game. It is the study of these characters and what existing in a world ladened with physical and emotional trauma can do to human beings. They episodes are the meat of the show; the action scenes are the gravy.
I'm at the point where as soon as a reviewer utilizes "place holder" phrasing I tune out and turn off the review. The use of the language speaks to a type of dismissiveness that I read as intellectually lazy, as though everything is beingmeasured against the need to have cheap hits of dopamine delivered from action scenes. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure Nerd Soup went on to have an interesting discussion, but they lost me in less than a minute.
I think the writers choosing to down scale the amount of infected this episode is good because it keeps the episodes from feeling like "monster of the week" quests and I really enjoy the multi layers they are trying to expand on with the characters and their relationships. I also agree with you about your criticism of the house of the dragon, but I do not believe it is a fair comparison
"You made them soup?" 😑
"Yeah I did….. it's COLD out!" 😊
Was Tommy building a gallows when Joel 1st arrived?
You guys are thinking waaay to much about the game. Its getting boring.
I don’t understand why Joel and Tommy didn’t both take her. They would have been much better off with the two of them
Pedro keeps delivering phenomenal performance his speech to Tommy was so well done ,and a welcome change from the game to make him more human.
I'm honestly surprised there was no mention of the confrontation scene.
When Maria kept trying to give Ellie new clothes and cut her hair, I was sure that she was going to see her bite and discover shes been infected.
I could see both if the Joel and Ellie relationship is both real or not real. Both work.
Jackson looks more like a all-inclusive time-share. Instead of a communist work camp.
Episode 3 reminds me of when they just dropped a Mandalorian episode into the middle of the Boba Fett show
I have t played the game, I haven’t watched the game. Would you advise I do that?
What I get tired of is the stupidity in choice of weapons. Why would you pick a bolt action? Joel has an AR-15, but he says the ammo for the AR-15 is too hard to find. Yet it’s the most popular rifle and rifle cartridge in the US in the. real world, and the chosen weapon of raiders, FEDRA, etc the .223 or 5.56 round would be the most viable round to find in a post apocalypse situation. Yet, obscure hunting rifles he’s all about.
Hmm. Ep 6 was the ep is had most problems with.
I think they are trying to avoid TWD comparisons by not beating us over the head with Zombies.
I do appreciate that they acknowledge Joel's age in the show
In the game it was always a bit strange that Joel could move like a truck and had super human hearing ar the age of 50. The reality is that he is getting old and that would definitely be a disadvantage in a world like TLOU
The dog scene opens up a question for me. They kinda insinuated that the machines fedra used to scan people weren't all that accurate. I can only imagine how many false positives they killed?
11:58 "The last of us, but it's just with terrible movies." 📽️ FYI, The Goodbye Girl was nominated for Best Picture, best screenplay, best actress, best supporting actress for the young girl, with Richard Dreyfuss winnng best actor. So, neener, neener, neener, you barbarian.¹ 😛🤪
15:49 I do hope they don't continue building on this "tell don't show," counter to the game. 🤦🏼♂️
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¹ ─ I get you might not have been specifically commenting on that film when you sad that, but perhaps others might've taken it that way. 🤷🏼♂️
This show is boring
The whole time from when Joel was asking Tommy to take Ellie up until when Joel and Ellie left, I kept shouting out “Why not both of you go!”
And then Joel is severely injured I say: “that wouldn’t have happened if they had both gone. They woulda fucked up those goons lol”
Craig Mazin has said he knows that its the worst idea to pull out the thing thats stabbed you but i think its more so to forward the story so it makes more sense that joel passes out and really is in need of help because of the blood loss due to pullin it out.
Y'all complain about silly shit
To be honest, the show was paced very well up until this episode for me. Obviously playing the game ive come to expect time spent on certain events, but joel getting injured just seemed so rushed. Only 3 episodes left and ep 7 will be left behind, so very hard to see how they will wrap this up smoothly
I was okay with the tell-don't-show aspect of Joel's breakdown because it felt like it was building up for a long time and it was done on Joel's part to beg Tommy to take on this role in a way that felt more natural and convincing than their more violent in-game spat would've done.
Did anyone else spot the cleverly placed Owl 🦉 in this episode!? I thought that was a cool little hidden Easter Egg 🥚🍳