The Last of Us Episode 3 hailed 'one of the greatest TV episodes EVER' - Daily Mail

The Last of Us occurrence 3 has been branded 'one of the top tv episodes ever' by affectional fans. 

The caller occurrence - entitled Long Long Time - introduced 2 caller characters, Bill, played by Nick Offerman, and Frank, played by Murray Bartlett, whose 'achingly beautiful' emotion communicative and eventual deaths moved fans to tears.

The zombie outbreak sees closeted doomsday prepper Bill instrumentality successful traveler Frank, with the brace falling successful emotion and remaining unneurotic for each their lives - with fans lauding Bill's romanticist line: 'I'm old. I'm satisfied. And you were my purpose.' 

Viewers took to societal media to praise the amusement for depicting a cheery romance done a affirmative lens, with 1 writing: 'The past of america created 1 of the astir beauteous depictions of emotion and devotion and increasing aged unneurotic one can’t halt reasoning astir it it was perfection

Another wrote: 'I person ne'er felt much daze and unpreparedness than going into the past of america occurrence 3 reasoning I'm astir to spot immoderate spooky mushroom zombies and begetter pedro and alternatively witnessing the astir reverently romanticist practice of cheery emotion I person ever seen.

Hush manager Mike Flanagan penned: 'Tonight’s occurrence of #TheLastOfUsHBO is 1 of the champion episodes of tv I’ve ever seen.'

Another typed: 'The Last of Us occurrence 3 volition astir apt spell down successful past arsenic 1 of the top episodes of tv ever made. Holy s**t.'

Referencing a Black Mirror occurrence which depicted a lesbian romance, different wrote: 'Didn’t cognize the past of america had a f*****g San Junipero occurrence I'm wrecked.'

Another wrote: 'One of the champion episodes of tv I've ever watched. Absolute Masterpiece.

One wrote: 'Tonight’s occurrence of The Last of Us was genuinely 1 of the astir beauteous episodes of tv I person ever seen.

'I can’t overstate however astonishing occurrence 3 of The Last of Us was. I won’t accidental thing astir it, conscionable that I truly similar this amusement truthful far..

Just 2 days after HBO renewed The Last of Us for a 2nd season, the beloved video crippled adaptation continues its archetypal play with the 3rd episode.

The occurrence besides continues the travel West by Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), pursuing a touching sacrifice successful past week's episode.

The occurrence begins with Joel reaching his manus into a watercourse and stacking a fig of rocks connected apical of each other, with a rubric paper revealing he's 10 miles westbound of Boston.

He walks backmost to the campsite with Ellie leaning up against a tree, asking him if helium wants his overgarment backmost but helium says no.

He tosses Ellie immoderate nutrient arsenic she says she's ne'er been successful the woods earlier and determination were 'more bugs than I thought.'

'I've been reasoning astir what happened. You needed a motortruck artillery and you made a prime truthful don't blasted maine for thing that's not my fault,' Ellie says, seemingly referring to the decease of Tess (Anna Torv).

He tells her it's a five-hour hike and Ellie says, 'We tin negociate that' arsenic they instrumentality disconnected done the woods. 

Ellie asks if she tin get a weapon but helium cuts her disconnected and says nary immediately, arsenic they caput into a gathering wherever helium stashed immoderate supplies.

Ellie gets precise excited to spot an aged Mortal Kombat II arcade machine, arsenic she starts professing her emotion for the crippled and its characters.

Ellie starts to research contempt Joel saying the spot has already been picked implicit beauteous well. 

She opens a metallic doorway successful the level and drops down into the abstraction with her flashlight, grabbing a trash tin she get usage to get out.

She starts looking astir erstwhile she hears a snarl... and sees idiosyncratic who has turned, trapped underneath a heap of bricks but someway inactive alive.

Ellie takes retired her switchblade and starts cutting into its forehead arsenic spores travel retired of his soma earlier sidesplitting it with her knife.

Back successful the main country Joel calls for Ellie but she doesn't respond, and erstwhile helium goes to look for her she comes backmost with a container of tampons.

She asks again to get a weapon and helium denies her arsenic they deed the roadworthy erstwhile again, arsenic they spot a crashed airplane.

She asks if he's ever flown successful an airplane earlier and helium says helium did but it wasn't large but she marvels astatine it saying, 'Dude you've been successful the sky.

She asks however everything started and helium says, 'No 1 knows for sure, but, champion guess... Cordyceps mutated.'

'And immoderate of it got into the nutrient supply. Probably a basal constituent similar flour oregon sugar. There were definite brands of nutrient that were sold everywhere, each crossed the country, crossed the world. Bread, cereal... Pancake mix.

'You devour capable of it, it'll get you infected. So the tainted nutrient each hits the store shelves astir the aforesaid time, Thursday. People bought it, ate immoderate Thursday nighttime oregon Friday morning. Day goes on... They started to get sick. Afternoon, evening, they got worse. Then they started bitin'. Friday night, September 26, 2003. And by Monday, everything was gone,' helium said.

He tells her they should spell a antithetic mode due to the fact that determination is thing determination helium doesn't privation her to see, and, of course, she says present she has to spot it.

She walks into a tract filled with corpses, arsenic helium explained, 'About a week aft Outbreak Day, soldiers... Went done the countryside, evacuated the tiny towns. Told you you were Goin' to a qz, and you were... If determination was room. If determination wasn't...' 

She mentions that these radical astir apt weren't sick and helium says, 'probably not' and she asks, 'Why termination them? Why not conscionable permission 'em be?

'Dead radical can't beryllium infected,' helium explains, arsenic they flash backmost to September 30, 2003, wherever the service is evacuating radical and we archetypal conscionable Bill.

While the soldiers are checking houses, he's hidden successful a concealed country of his house, arsenic they people his doorway with a reddish X.

'Not contiguous you caller satellite bid jackboots,' Bill says to himself.

Bill gets successful his motortruck with his vessel attached arsenic helium loads up connected gas, including a fig of state barrels.

He loads up connected supplies astatine a store earlier the powerfulness is chopped out, and helium grabs a lawsuit of vino arsenic good earlier mounting up his generator.

Bill starts cutting down trees, mounting up traps successful his spot portion increasing ft successful his plot and feeding his chickens.

He makes himself a steak meal and saves the grease helium cooked with, erstwhile an alarm goes off.

He turns connected the information monitors erstwhile helium sees an infected antheral locomotion towards his property... arsenic helium hits a tripwire that activates a shotgun and kills him.

'Never gets old,' Bill says to himself, arsenic they chopped to 5 years aboriginal successful 2007, erstwhile he's moving successful a store erstwhile different alarm goes off.

He goes retired and finds Frank (Murray Bartlett) successful the hole, who says he's trying to get to Boston and he's the past of a enactment of 10.

Bill drops down a ladder for Frank to ascent retired and tells Frank to halt astatine the top, utilizing a instrumentality to trial if he's infected, but he's not.

Bill tells him wherever Boston is but Frank says he's bare and helium hasn't eaten successful 2 days.

Bill says if helium feeds him everyone volition travel expecting a escaped luncheon adding, 'this is not an Arby's.'

Frank retorts, 'Arby's didn't springiness retired escaped lunch, they were a restaurant. I won't speech astir it to immoderate bums, oregon hobos oregon vagabonds, I promise. I mean, you already cognize I'm atrocious astatine lying.'

Bill yet lets him successful his location and gives him apparel portion helium showers earlier Bill feeds him arsenic Frank raves astir the food.

'Everything tastes astonishing erstwhile you're starving,' Bill says arsenic helium pours Frank immoderate wine.

'A antheral who knows to brace rabbit with a Beaujolais,' Frank says, arsenic Bill adds, 'I cognize I don't look similar the type,' but Frank adds, 'Oh you do.' 

Frank finishes eating and says, 'I deliberation I'll beryllium going now, but first...' arsenic helium walks to the antique piano.

He digs successful the spot for expanse euphony and finds thing helium thinks Bill mightiness like, but he's having occupation playing and singing arsenic Bill stops him.

Frank says he's going to permission again, arsenic Bill sits down and plays a tune himself, Linda Ronstadt's Long Long Time.

'So... who's the girl? The miss you were singing about?' Frank asks, but Bill says, 'There is nary girl.'

Frank says, 'I know,' and leans down and kisses Bill, asking what his sanction is and telling him to spell instrumentality a shower, arsenic Bill goes upstairs.

Frank is waiting bare successful furniture erstwhile Bill gets retired of the shower, arsenic Frank takes Bill's towel disconnected and Bill gets successful furniture with Frank.

'Have you ever done this before?' Frank asks and Bill says, 'A agelong clip ago, with a girl.'

'I'm gonna commencement with elemental things but I privation you to cognize I'm not a whore. I don't person enactment for lunches, adjacent large ones. So if I bash this, I'm gonna enactment for a fewer much days. Is that OK?' Frank asks and Bill agrees. 

They commencement kissing again earlier they chopped to 3 years aboriginal arsenic Bill and Frank are arguing vehemently astir the house.

Frank says he's fixing up immoderate of the buildings and Frank insists they are going to person friends and they volition visit.

'We volition not person friends due to the fact that determination are nary friends to beryllium had,' Bill says, but Frank says he's been talking with a pistillate connected the radio.

It turns retired the pistillate was Tess (Anna Torv), with Tess and Joel enjoying a repast with Bill and Frank.

Frank takes Tess wrong implicit Bill's protests arsenic Joel says helium understands wherever Bill is coming from and insists they tin assistance him.

Joel asks if Bill was a 'doomsday prepper' but Bill insists helium is simply a 'survivalist' and says they are self-sufficient and don't request help.

'That obstruction has got a twelvemonth connected it, tops. Galvanized ligament already started to corrode. I tin get you 10 spools of high-tensile aluminum. Last you the remainder of your life,' Joel says.

Joel tells him FEDRA won't travel up present but astatine immoderate constituent they volition person raiders who volition travel successful 'quiet and armed,' but Bill insists, 'We'll beryllium fine.' 

Frank takes Bill retired jogging and says helium has a astonishment arsenic helium shows them a caller garden, saying helium traded a weapon for a packet of strawberry seeds.

They prime 2 strawberries and devour them together, Bill abruptly becoming giddy with delight successful tasting the saccharine fruit.

'I'm sorry,' Bill says, arsenic Joel asks, 'For what?' Bill says, 'For getting older faster than you,' arsenic Frank says, 'Older means we're inactive here.' 

'I was ne'er acrophobic earlier you showed up,' Bill says arsenic Frank embraces him and they commencement kissing. 

That night, a fig of equipped men effort to breach their spot arsenic a fig of traps are acceptable disconnected arsenic Frank goes chasing aft Bill but can't find him.

Frank gets a weapon from a drawer and heads outside, uncovering Bill picking them disconnected with a rifle... but Bill is deed arsenic Frank helps him inside.

Frank lays Bill connected the array arsenic Bill says helium made a database for him and tells him to telephone Joel and helium can't beryllium determination alone.

Frank pours liquor connected the coiled arsenic Bill insists helium should telephone Joel and says he'll instrumentality attraction of him.

The amusement cuts to 10 years aboriginal successful present-day 2023 arsenic Bill did survive, but present Frank is successful a wheelchair, arsenic we spot the paintings Frank has been moving on. 

They're sharing a repast arsenic Bill asks Frank if he's taken his pills but Frank said helium hasn't but helium can't get them retired of the tiny container truthful Bill gets them retired for Frank.

Later that nighttime Bill helps Frank into furniture - with Frank seemingly paralyzed from the waist down - arsenic they spell to bed.

The adjacent greeting Bill wakes up and finds Frank successful his chair, joking that it took each night.

Bill gets upset that helium doesn't privation him to autumn dormant successful the seat but Frank says helium won't due to the fact that it's his past day.

Bill thinks they tin inactive get assistance for him but Frank says determination wasn't a cure earlier and he's 'made up' his mind.

'I've had bully days with you, much than I've had with anyone else, truthful springiness maine 1 much bully day,' Frank says.

Frank asks him to marque toast for him and they'll spell to the boutique and prime caller apparel and they'll get married.

Then helium wants Bill to navigator a bully meal and crush up the remainder of his pills and enactment them successful his vino and he'll autumn dormant successful his arms.

Bill breaks down successful tears and says helium can't but Frank asks, 'Do you emotion me?'

Bill says helium does and Frank says, 'Then emotion maine the mode I privation you to.' 

They're seen exchanging rings and sharing a buss earlier Bill brings retired their past repast together, pouring them some immoderate drinks.

Later Bill brings retired the vino and pours them some a solid earlier dumping the crushed up pills successful the solid and stirring it into the vino with a spoon and handing it to Bill.

'Will it beryllium enough?' Frank asks and Bill softly says, 'Yeah,' arsenic Frank drinks it each successful 1 gulp and Bill finishes his vino too.

Frank realizes that Bill did the aforesaid happening and utilized the remainder of the pills for him, saying determination was, 'Enough to termination a horse.'

'This isn't the tragic termination astatine the extremity of the play. I'm old. I'm satisfied. And you were my purpose,' Bill says.

Frank adds, 'I bash not enactment this. I should beryllium furious,' but admits it is 'incredibly romantic,' earlier Bill takes Frank to bed.

Joe and Ellie are seen walking up to Bill's spot arsenic helium enters the codification to participate the spot and helium walks into the house.

Joel calls for Bill and Frank but nary 1 answers, arsenic Joel telling Ellie to enactment determination and to outcry if thing happens. 

Ellie walks astir the location and finds a missive with a key, addressed, 'To whomever but astir apt Joel,' and she gives him the car key.

'So they're dead?' Joel asks and Ellie affirms, speechmaking the missive to Joel.

'August 29, 2023. If you find this... Please bash not travel into the bedroom. We near a model unfastened truthful the location wouldn't smell, But it volition astir apt beryllium a sight. I'm guessing you recovered this, Joel, Because anyone other would've been electrocuted "Or blown up by 1 of my traps. Hehehehehehehehe,' Ellie reads.

'Take thing you need. The bunker codification is the aforesaid arsenic the gross codification but successful reverse. "Anyway... I ne'er liked you, "But still, it's similar we're friends... Almost. "And I respect you. So, I'm gonna archer you thing due to the fact that you're astir apt "The lone idiosyncratic who volition understand. "I utilized to hatred the world, and I was blessed erstwhile everyone died. But I was incorrect due to the fact that determination was "One idiosyncratic worthy saving. "That's what I did. "I saved him. "Then I protected him. "That's wherefore men similar you and maine are here. We person a occupation to do. "And God assistance immoderate motherf**ers who basal successful our way. I permission you each of my weapons and equipment. Use them to keep--' Ellie stops reading.

Joel takes the missive and it says, 'Use them to support Tess safe,' arsenic Joel goes extracurricular and finds their motortruck and boat.

He tells Ellie to amusement him her limb and she does arsenic helium tells her, 'I conscionable finished Makin' a motortruck battery. It's charging close now. And I person a member retired successful Wyoming. He's successful immoderate kinda trouble, and I'm heading retired determination to find him.'

He adds, 'He utilized to beryllium a Firefly. And my conjecture is helium knows wherever immoderate of them are retired there. Maybe they tin get you to wherever this laboratory is. All right. If I'm takin' you with me, there's immoderate rules you gotta follow. Rule one, you don't bring up Tess. Ever. Matter of fact, we tin conscionable support our histories to ourselves. Rule two, you don't archer anyone astir your... Condition. They spot that wound mark, they won't deliberation it through. They'll conscionable sprout you. Rule three, you bash what I accidental erstwhile I accidental it. We clear?'

Ellie agrees arsenic they find each the weapons they near behind. She again asks for a weapon and helium says nary but she says determination is simply a 'wall of them.'

While exploring the location much though, Ellie finds a weapon successful a drawer and rapidly puts it successful her backpack.

They get successful the motortruck arsenic Ellie marvels astatine it, having ne'er been successful a motortruck before.

She finds a portion successful the mitt container and puts it in, a portion of Linda Ronstadt, singing Long Long Time, the opus Bill sang to Frank each those years agone arsenic they thrust West, arsenic the occurrence comes to an end.  

The preview for adjacent week's occurrence teases a archetypal look astatine Melanie Lynskey's quality Kathleen arsenic Joel and Ellie support heading West successful their caller truck. 

Joel was tasked with taking Ellie to a harmless location successful the archetypal episode, on with his companion Tess (Anna Torv), though nary 1 was waiting similar they were promised.

They yet traversed done the quarantined portion of Boston successful the 2nd episode, though it was revealed that Tess had gotten spot on the mode and is infected.

She decided to sacrifice herself, mounting the depository ablaze, giving Joel and Ellie capable clip to get retired alive.

The trailer for Sunday's 3rd occurrence introduces Frank, who has rather the information strategy acceptable up... including a trap that helium caught Frank with.

It seems Frank has known Joel for immoderate time, arsenic they're seen talking connected his spot with Joel telling Frank he'll yet person 'raiders' trying to bargain from him.

The trailer besides shows Ellie trying to larn much astir the fungus, taking her switchblade weapon to an infected human. 

HBO announced past week - erstwhile it renewed The Last of Us - that the bid premiere occurrence has surpassed 22 cardinal viewers done on-demand formats, 5 times the assemblage for the linear broadcast.

Episode 2 of The Last of Us tallied 5.7 cardinal viewers crossed HBO Max and linear telecasts successful the U.S. Sunday night, based connected Nielsen and archetypal enactment data, adding much than 1 cardinal caller viewers vs. the bid premiere. 

This 22% leap marks the largest week 2 assemblage maturation for immoderate HBO Original Drama Series successful the past of the network.

The Last of Us was besides a deed connected societal media, with the bid trending #1 some successful the U.S. and worldwide connected Twitter during its bid debut. 

To date, play 1 teasers and trailers person amassed much than 100 cardinal views globally. 

Additionally, the archetypal occurrence of the series' companion podcast deed #1 connected the Apple Podcast US charts crossed each genres wrong 48 hours of its release.