Bonus Ep. - Outbreak Day, Joel and Tess's Relationship, The Neighbors, Marlene and Ellie
Decoding TV
David Chen
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
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In this Decoding TV bonus episode about The Last Of Us, David and Christian discuss many of the changes between the videogame and the TV series, including:
- The framing of Outbreak Day
- The relationship between Joel and Tess
- What’s going on with Joel and Sarah’s neighbors
- Marlene and Ellie’s relationship
- And much more!
NOTE: We’ve tried really hard to keep this as non-spoilery as possible but show-watchers-only should be warned that you may consider some of this material to be spoilers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to decoding TV bonus episode with me, David Chen and Christian |
| 0:04.9 | Spicer. |
| 0:05.9 | Today we're going to be discussing the last of us episode one. |
| 0:08.9 | This is bonus material. |
| 0:10.3 | Now with most TV shows I recap, I have not been exposed to the source material. |
| 0:16.2 | With this one, I have actually played the video game. |
| 0:18.6 | I'm a huge fan of it. |
| 0:20.1 | The source material walked by, opened its coat, showed you everything. |
| 0:23.9 | You've been... |
| 0:24.9 | I was... |
| 0:25.9 | I thank you for that troubling image. |
| 0:26.9 | I was thinking of... |
| 0:28.9 | I was thinking of replaying the video game in advance of our conversation, Christian, |
| 0:33.7 | but I decided, you know what? |
| 0:34.7 | I'm not going to because then if I forget something, you can explain it to me on the podcast |
| 0:39.2 | and people might benefit from hearing that. |
| 0:43.3 | That said, the last of us part one is on sale on PS5 as we're recording this, so I'm |
| 0:46.4 | thinking of picking that up maybe. |
| 0:48.4 | But the purpose of this bonus episode is we are going to be discussing some changes that |
| 0:54.3 | the video game made or that the show made to the video game's story. |
| 0:59.3 | I want to be really upfront and say, I don't think what we will discuss can be considered |
| 1:06.1 | spoilers, and we will try to avoid talking about like stuff at the end of the story or |
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