Stephen King calls geographic shenanigans on The Last Of Us - The A.V. Club

This past week’s occurrence of The Last Of Us was a watershed infinitesimal successful queer television, depicting a compassionate, painful, and rewarding romance played by Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett to rapturous acclaim. This precise website thinks it mightiness gain Offerman his archetypal Emmy. The spoils and symptom of quality transportation acceptable against the backdrop of the extremity of the world, the occurrence celebrates beingness erstwhile surrounded by death, giving viewers a crushed to bent connected successful acheronian times. Unfortunately, each that was for naught because—let’s beryllium honest—Neil Druckman and Craig Mazen deliberation we’re stupid. There’s nary mode that occurrence happened extracurricular of Boston.

The occurrence supposedly took spot successful “Lincoln, Massachusetts,” but you’d ne'er cognize it from observing the episode’s mountainous terrain. Maine’s favourite lad Stephen King gets it. That ain’t Lincoln, you chowderhead.

“The Last Of Us. Episode 3,” King tweeted. “Do you truly privation to archer maine that’s 10 miles westbound of Boston?” Yeah, um, Mr. Druckmann, that doesn’t look similar immoderate portion of Waltham we’ve seen.

Seriously, if HBO wants to archer america that, sure, this occurrence took spot successful Worcester, we’d bargain it. But c’mon, 10 miles extracurricular of Boston, with those landscapes and truthful fewer Massholes? Forget it. If Red Sox fans tin past the curse of the Bambino, they tin endure the extremity of the world. King, who liked the occurrence “fine,” doesn’t attraction however tender the emotion affair, that ain’t anyplace adjacent a Legal Seafood. Maybe that’s Woburn. Maybe.

King’s not alone. Per Variety, Boston.com declared the occurrence “a mockery of Boston-area geography” successful a Neil deGrasse Tysonian spot of trolling that everyone loves, peculiarly Bostonians. Quite simply, Matt and Ben would never. You’d ne'er cognize it by the reviews, which person uniformly praised the occurrence for couching specified an affectional same-sex emotion communicative successful a big-budget mushroom zombie TV show. Our ain reappraisal said, “If The Last of Us is astir the emotion that grows betwixt a grieving begetter and the miss successful his care, its parallel is the enslaved betwixt Frank and Bill, which Mazin’s publication traces with tremendous bosom and humor.” It’s specified a shame that an evident lapse successful geographical cognition defiled this benignant of screenwriting. Seriously, what portion of I-95 did this occurrence instrumentality spot on? We privation exits.

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Everyone knows that this occurrence took spot successful Lynn, the metropolis of misdeed (you ne'er travel retired the mode you came in).