The Last of Us - Ep. 4 Please Hold To My Hand

Pop Culture Leftovers

Tv Reviews, Tv & Film

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Episode 4 Please Hold To My Hand After abandoning their truck in Kansas City, Joel and Ellie attempt to escape without drawing the attention of a vindictive leader. For more Brian and Joe listen to Pop Culture Leftovers. For more Melissa Sloter listen to the Wild Pretty Things podcast. And for more Billy check out The Reality Guys on YouTube. The Reality Guys is a Reality TV Reaction and Review channel. Bill, Brian, Kevin, and Waleed cover everything and anything Reality TV. The Last of Us takes place 20 years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the U.S. and depend on each other for survival. Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian, Wonder Woman 1984) and Bella Ramsey (HBO’s His Dark Materials and Game of Thrones) star as Joel and Ellie. Gabriel Luna (True Detective) as Joel’s younger brother and former soldier, Tommy; Merle Dandridge (The Last of Us video games, The Flight Attendant) as resistance leader Marlene; and Anna Torv (Fringe) as Tess, a smuggler and fellow hardened survivor. The series guest stars Nico Parker (The Third Day) as Sarah, Joel’s 14-year old daughter; Murray Bartlett (The White Lotus) and Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) as Frank and Bill, two post-pandemic survivalists living alone in their own isolated town; Storm Reid (Euphoria) as Riley, an orphan in Boston; and Jeffrey Pierce (The Last of Us video games) as Perry, a rebel in a quarantine zone. Lamar Johnson guest stars as Henry and Keivonn Woodard as Sam, brothers in Kansas City hiding from a revolutionary movement seeking vengeance. Graham Greene guest stars as Marlon and Elaine Miles as Florence, a married couple surviving alone in the wilderness of post-apocalyptic Wyoming. Written and executive produced by Craig Mazin (HBO’s Chernobyl) and Neil Druckmann, of The Last of Us and Uncharted video game franchises. Carolyn Strauss (HBO’s Chernobyl and Game of Thrones) serves as executive producer, along with Evan Wells from the original game’s developer, Naughty Dog, and PlayStation Productions’ Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome back to the last of us presented by pop culture leftovers. I'm one of your hosts, Brian from pop culture leftovers. And I am joined by Mr. Joe Stark, also of pop culture leftovers. Welcome, Joe.
0:12.5	Hey, stoked to be here.
0:14.9	Not only do we have Joe, but we get returning again, Melissa Slaughter from the Wild Pretty Things podcast. Welcome, Melissa.
0:21.3	Hello, thank you for having me.
0:23.2	And we have Billy from the reality guys on YouTube. Welcome back, Billy.
0:29.5	Hey, everyone excited to be here and to be on time this week on time this week. Yeah, man. No, no, no, Bob Vila projects around the house.
0:39.4	No, they're good. They're sheet rock up in the basement and everything. No Joe is Bob Vila. Is that is that a dated thing now? Do people know who Bob Vila is anymore?
0:48.4	This old house. I don't know because I'm of that same generation as you to where you say that. And I immediately think this old house. Should I be saying the property brothers? Do they do work on houses or do they just?
0:58.4	What are they? I don't even know what the property brothers do. Yeah, yeah. Who's that? Who's that couple with the guy in the girl they they've had it that show forever?
1:10.4	They took a chip and chip and chip. Yes, chip and Joanna, man, Joanna.
1:15.4	Yeah, I always see that show when I'm at my mom and dad's house to where the point where I'm like, how often are you guys watching this?
1:22.4	Oh, God, your dad must be miserable. That's got to be your mom putting them through that.
1:30.4	That's pretty good to do in his own thing. This it's, uh, yeah, this time of year, I think deer deer seasons all done now. So, um, yeah, yeah, he's probably stuck in the house now.
1:42.4	I know towards the end of the year and the winter time when a couple different deer seasons come up. That dude's out in the woods a lot.
1:48.4	Your dad learned happy wife happy life and I didn't and that's why I'm divorced and and sad Joe. So more props to your father, but we're here to talk about the last of us episode four.
2:00.4	Uh, huge news for the last of us, the ratings, the viewership, excuse me, just keeps going up HBO reported a total of seven point five million viewers in the fourth episode on HBO and HBO Max on Sunday.
2:17.4	This is an increase of 17% from the last of us episode three. So viewership just continues to rise every week. This show is becoming a, it's becoming a big deal.
2:31.4	Oh, huge hit. And, you know, that word of mouth is just so positive. Just every week more and more people are singing the show's praises and it really shows.
2:41.4	We got episodic growth really is remarkable to see like we don't see that anymore, right? Especially four weeks in to see that consistent growth.
2:51.4	And I really would be surprised now that we wouldn't see it when I know you'll talk about it, but like with the new next episode releasing on a different day, like I think that opens up another big chance for viewership on that night.
3:02.4	I just think that they are just, and it's just, it's just amazing to see that like you said, Joe, it's mostly word of mouth. And I just think it's just, it's really incredible.
3:13.4	I am curious though.
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