This article contains spoilers for "The Last of Us" on HBO as well as the video game source material.
It becomes more clear with each passing week that "The Last Of Us" is, on many levels, about queer survival. Not surviving forever -- this show's unflinchingly tragic world buries its gays along with pretty much everyone else -- but surviving long enough to find acceptance, connection, and some form of love. This week, in an episode that took place almost entirely in flashback, we saw Ellie (Bella Ramsey) find that love with her best friend Riley (Storm Reid) for the briefest of moments. The pair shared a sweet first kiss in a scene that echoes one from the game's downloadable content add-on, "The Last Of Us: Left Behind."
"The Last Of Us" clues audiences into Ellie's sexuality organically, in the context of a story of tentative and fun yet deeply...
It becomes more clear with each passing week that "The Last Of Us" is, on many levels, about queer survival. Not surviving forever -- this show's unflinchingly tragic world buries its gays along with pretty much everyone else -- but surviving long enough to find acceptance, connection, and some form of love. This week, in an episode that took place almost entirely in flashback, we saw Ellie (Bella Ramsey) find that love with her best friend Riley (Storm Reid) for the briefest of moments. The pair shared a sweet first kiss in a scene that echoes one from the game's downloadable content add-on, "The Last Of Us: Left Behind."
"The Last Of Us" clues audiences into Ellie's sexuality organically, in the context of a story of tentative and fun yet deeply...
- 2/27/2023
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
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