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The Last of Us | Episode 8 Review (SPOILERS)

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4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Beau & Aaron review episode 8 of THE LAST OF US on HBO!

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0:00.0

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0:05.2

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0:30.0

Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of NerdSoup.

0:35.3

I am Beau Oliver, join you today with Aaron the NerdSoup Monkey and we are back to review

0:39.2

the last of us episode 8 when we are in need.

0:43.4

Written by Craig Mason and directed by Ali Abasi.

0:47.2

I think a lot of people are saying this was the best episode of the season so far.

0:51.0

It's definitely up there.

0:52.1

I still think episode 3 has been my favorite.

0:55.0

Which we get a lot of negative comments, still, which is always surprising but go fuck yourself

0:59.4

if you get a complaint about a gay relationship and a show where the source material also

1:03.6

had gay relationships so go fuck off kindly, unkindly.

1:07.6

But this was a great episode.

1:09.1

Really enjoyed it and tense throughout, similar to how it played out in the game.

1:13.0

This was the moment in the game where I realized, oh, this is an a zombie story.

1:18.0

This is a human story.

1:19.8

Human being suck and everything about that encounter I thought they captured perfectly in this adaptation.

1:26.7

It was super unsettling.

1:28.6

Scott Shepard as David was great casting and I think for me coming into this show, this

1:33.5

was an important casting to just sort of capture that creepiness but also the charisma.

1:38.4

Showing us the reasons why people would fall under his trap and it's sort of the dark

1:42.9

side of leadership in this world.

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