HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ Director: You Need to ‘Trick’ Viewers into Watching a Gay Love Story

[Anti Federalist]

Pardon, but wouldn't the very last thing you would want to "tolerate", in the middle of a post-apocalyptic zombie nightmare that is threatening to exterminate all of mankind, is the genetic and procreative dead-endism of queeerness?



HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ Director Says You Need to ‘Trick’ Viewers into Watching a Gay Love Story

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainm...ay-love-story/

DAVID NG 3 Feb 2023

HBO’s hit video-game adaptation series The Last of Us took an unexpected detour into gay territory in its most recent episode, focusing on a budding romance between the characters played by actors Nick Offerman and Murry Bartlett. In a recent interview, the episode director said viewers sometimes need to be tricked into watching a gay love story.

Director Peter Hoar, who is openly gay, spoke to the science-focused site Inverse about making the show.

“Sometimes you have to sort of trick the rest of the world into watching these things before they’re like, ‘Oh, my God, it was two guys. I just realized,'” he said. “I think then they might understand that it’s all real. It’s just the same love.”

The Last of Us is adapted from the zombie post-apocalyptic Sony video game of the same name that follows two survivors of a major global pandemic. The third episode, which debuted last week, has become a much-talked-about departure from the rest of the series, focusing on the two supporting characters Bill (Offerman) and Frank (Bartlett), who find themselves falling in love.

Corporate media have lavished praise on the episode, with some calling it one of the most important storylines in TV history. But some detractors have questioned the storyline, criticizing it as a non-sequitur designed to score social justice points rather than advance the plot.

Hoar directed the recent British miniseries It’s a Sin, which followed the lives of a group of gay men at the height of the AIDS epidemic.

“The community was so wonderful about the whole show,” he said referring to It’s a Sin. “Now, it’s happening again, not just with the LGBTQ community, but The Last of Us community, which I also belong to.”

The Last of Us already has ample opportunity for ***** “representation” from its source materials; the video game series depicts main character Ellie Williams as a lesbian.

[Anti Globalist]

Can't trick me into watching a gay love story when I don't even watch the show.

[phill4paul]

I'll stick to the Yellowstone series. Not a single kweer yet.

[Brian4Liberty]

Coincidently, for no particular reason, this show just happened to be on in the background in my house yesterday. I paid attention for about 5 minutes, and suspected that's the direction the show was going to go.

This is so groundbreaking and brave. It's not like every other commercial on TV shows gay men or men kissing. IIRC, there was some gay producer that admitted it was just to torture straight people, to get them back for gay people having to watch straight romances for so long.