While the onscreen travails of Joel and Ellie take center stage in The Last of Us, as they did in the videogame, for Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin, the translation to television afforded an opportunity to delve deeper into the larger struggle of survivors of the pandemic.
The show’s third episode “Long, Long Time” expands the game’s story of survivalist Bill (Nick Offerman), who turns his hometown into an infected-proof compound, and who seems content to survive on his own.
That is, until Frank (Murray Bartlett) gets stuck in one of Bill’s traps, and the pair fall delicately, and movingly, in love with one another.
While Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsay charged headlong into the series without having played the videogame, for the core team behind “Long, Long Time,” director Peter Hoar and cinematographer Eben Bolter, a chance to work on an adaptation of one of their favorite games was unpassable.
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