![]() The episode jumps back in time to the early stages of the cordyceps outbreak where we meet Bill, a gruff survivalist, who manages to dodge the evacuation of his town by hiding in a surveillance bunker that he built under his home prior to the outbreak. Their on-screen chemistry is wonderful and they play their roles with enormous sensitivity and nuance. While the first two episodes set the overall tone of the series and introduced viewers to the two main protagonists, Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), the third boldly steps away from this journey and instead explores the intimate and heartbreaking love story between Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett).Ĭasting two inherently comical and goofy stars from Parks and Recreation and The White Lotus was a surprising move from the show's creators, but one that paid off magnificently. But also to really dig into the point of the show, which is the nature of love, two very different kinds of love, and how those two kinds of love need each other.Bill played by Nick Offerman from episode three of HBO's 'The Last of Us' Credit: HBO/Warner Media And there was an allusion to his relationship with Frank, and I just started thinking that there was an opportunity there, that there was an opportunity to first of all help people understand how the passage of time functioned between the outbreak to now. ![]() Thus, Mazin leaned on his love of the original game: “One of the things that I remember from the game was that Bill was safe, and I love that concept, that he had built this oasis of safety. And the second episode is incredibly tense and features danger and clickers and tragedy. And then we meet Joel with Ellie and they begin this adventure. “And one of the things that I felt pretty strongly was, ‘Look, we’ve got this insane first episode where the world falls apart and there’s tragedy. “You kind of have to have this weird, almost music-like sense of rhythm if you’re building a series,” he says. ![]() Mazin says that the decision to explore Bill and Frank’s story with the series’ third episode came as a result of multiple factors. Our director Peter Hoar does this gorgeous job.” “And to do it with Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett, who are incredible. ![]() “It was an opportunity to just explore theme and the passage of time,” series co-creator Craig Mazin tells Consequence in a roundtable interview. ![]()
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