The Last of Us (2023) S1 E3
booger 2 points 1 year ago. (Contains Spoilers)

While this was a beautiful episode that did a deep dive into the lives of a pair of characters that have a substantial impact upon the characters Joel and Ellie and their journey across post-apocalypse America, it does very little to advance the story overall.
I do like developed characters in my stories but to spend the majority of an episode to entirely flesh out characters unto their death seems like the typical “padding” U.S. shows have become known for.
They could have easily reduced the whole romance thing down to the few minutes they gave the actual story and expanded the storyline by an entire episode, just sayin’.