Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of NerdSoup.

I am Beau Oliver, joined here today with Aaron, the NerdSoup Monkey, and we are back to talk

about the last of us episode 3.

Excited to have you back, Aaron, even though you did assault me and Teddy on the last video

you were on, but it looks like you got hit with a little bit of karma because you came

down with the flu.

Luckily we're taking the necessary precautions because I am a hypokondriac, but Aaron,

how you doing?

Excited for today's episode?

Yeah, good to be back, excited to talk about the episode, and I guess, sorry about your

faces.

That was a little bit wild of me, my bad.

Alright, so episode 3, long, long time written by Craig Mason, directed by Peter Hor, and

I think on both fronts they did a really good job, especially the writing in this episode.

It's the biggest departure from the games coming into the episode, hearing critics

reactions saying that most of it didn't appear in the games, and they were right.

So we get this insight into Bill and Frank, two characters that are, one is in the game

and both are mentioned.

And I think Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett not only did they steal the episode with their

love story, chronicled over the span of 17 years, but they were perfect casting.

I think Offerman watching him set up his preparations for the apocalypse was like watching

Ron Swanson.

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