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Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023 — Shelton-Mason County Journal Page 145
Shows sWitchup routines, starting with ‘The Last of Us’
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IN THE
DARK REVIEWS
he last week of January
Tand first week of Feb
ruary saw intriguing
variations in the formulae of
some weekly TV shows I’ve
recommended in this space
before, so I thought I’d touch
upon each of them briefly.
’The Last of Us,’
Sundays on HBO
Season 1, Episode 3, “Long,
Long Time” on Jan. 29 began
with Joel (Pedro Pascal) and
Ellie (Bella Ramsey) mak-
ing their Way west from Bos—
ton, before it detoured into a
Frank (Murray Bartlett) and Bill (Nick Offerman) celebrate their
emotionally affecting love
story in “The Last of Us” Season 1, Episode 3, “Long, Long Time” on
HBO. Courtesy photo
20-year-long, nearly episode-
length flashback, fully encom—
passing the relationship of
paranoid bunker survivalist
Bill (Nick Offerman) and the
man who becomes the love of
his life, artistic people-person
Frank (Murray Bartlett).
Doomsday prepper Bill
will seem amusingly familiar
to anyone who was a fan of
Offerman’s libertarian manly-
man Ron Swanson on NBC’s
“Parks and Recreation,”
as he transforms an entire
abandoned town into a self-
sustaining, formidably forti—
fied village of one, until one
of his traps catches affable
wanderer Frank, whose face
lights up with delight at Bill’s
gourmet cooking and elegant
piano.
Frank’s affinity for the
small joys in life, from‘spruc:
ing up the place where he
lives to hosting garden par-
ties of fellow survivors of the
fungal zombie apocalypse,
proves too infectious for even
Bill’s guarded heart to re—
sist, and even as they fend
off would-be raiders and
succumb to their own infir-
mities of health and age, our
bearded couple finds time to
giggle like kids over a crop of
strawberries.
For a single episode to
span two decades is almost
as audacious as the “One
Year Later” flash-forward of
the 2lst-century “Battlestar
Galactica,” and while I’ve
heard! some mild complaints
about its pacing, it’s the sort
of experimental storytelling
that should be far more com—
mon in showsthat are totally
unmoored from the current'
events of the real world.
And for as Swanson-esque
as Bill is .— at one point, he
and Frank get into a hilari—
ous yelling match over Bill’s
pre—apocalyptic conspiracy
theories about how “The
government are all Nazis,”
to which Frank is forced to
concede, “Well, yeah, now!
But not then,” in the wake of
FEDRA ~ Ofi‘erman portrays
Bill with a vulnerability that
should earn him all the TV ‘
acting awards. - '
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