HBO’s The Last of Us gives Frank and Bill the character development–and life–they deserve.
What was buried in 2013’s The Last of Us was not forgotten–not entirely anyway.
Warning: The following contains spoilers for the third episode of HBO’s The Last of Us.
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However, in an ironic and bittersweet twist, the end of the world became the start of theirs.
Bill’s story begins as a doomsday prepper, whose paranoia paid off when the apocalypse came in 2003.
He watched his wall of security camera monitors with bated breath while the military evacuated his entire town.
And then he stopped holding his breath for the first time and started actually embracing life.
He was a queer man living in a world that would assuredly reject him for that reason alone.
Every single marginalized person knows the safety they would enjoy in a town like Bill’s.
It’s something so many of us have dreamed about.
Its hard to imagine Bill giggling with Frank in a garden in the world as it was.
In this world, people like Bill and Frank are allowed to grow old together.
The two share decades together, experiencing a full, uncompromising life.
It doesn’t mean their relationship or lives are perfect.
There are still disagreements and arguments, but they work through it together until the very end.
In their final day together the two reflect on the time theyve shared.
We see the two share their last meal together before voluntarily ending their lives.
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