Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of NerdSoup, I am Bo Oliver, joined

here today with Aaron the NerdSoup Monkey and we are back to review the last of us episode

7 left behind, written by Neil Druckmann and directed by Lisa Johnson coming into this

episode based on the preview we knew that it was going to incorporate some flashbacks

and we also assume that present day would also be addressed and I thought it was done

pretty well, I mean the themes are a bit obvious but that's okay, it's all about how they

play out and I think the main relationship between Ellie and Riley was very touching and

moving, sweet, romantic, it's an opportunity for these two kids who grew up under this military

regime to experience some freedom, the freedom of being a child of going to the mall, that's

like a pastime of American childhood, escaped to the mall, go see a movie, fuck with people,

obviously there's not a lot of people working there so yeah, can't really cause a ruckus

but get a nice pretzel, I always love a nice mall pretzel.

Well, any end is one of the fourth wonders of the mall for me and that's not even including

a topic, Spencer's gifts, little fountain with the fish, yeah, yeah, mall always had

those fish points in, yeah, poor fish, good for the fish, the good and bad of society

pre-apocalypse, you know, it wasn't all, no, yeah, the mall was a real reflection of society

as a whole, the survival of the fittest truly, really, they had that mean girls right

when they're all fighting at the mall, the watering hole, but good performances definitely,

it stood out, that's what stood out the most similar to episode three with Bill and

Frank and I think that's an obvious comparison to draw there, but the new edition Stormread

is Riley and it feels like this young actress has been popping up all over the place, I

know she was in Euphoria, so she's got the HBO connection, but she was really great in

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