The Reel Rejects - THE LAST OF US Episode 5 - Review & Breakdown | HBO | “Endure & Survive”

Episode Date: February 13, 2023

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I'll just kick it up. Kick it off. I'm kicking them off. You kick it off. I thought it was a really well-paced jumble of emotion episode where, you know, you know the the tone was really well balanced and just i mean there were moments of exhilaration from the action to just more moments of heart wrench and then moments of bond and i really love the angle too i mean we're going to talk about a lot of different things but i

really love the angle they went out with sam and ellie i mean it was a little bit different perspective to me how i felt in the game was sam kind of had a little bit of a crush on ellie and you know that was and that's at least how i took it definitely um but i thought the the like talk something again yeah oh yeah that too um but i thought this was really unique you know having him being hearing impaired and you know they had more of a older sister little brother type of bond and i just it was very heartfelt and i really appreciated the chemistry between uh belly and and sam and i thought they the scenes were just so emotional and i also love how you pointed out to that you know henry had a little bit because in the game he's very he's very stern very strict

understandably so he doesn't want anything to happen to say I'm in a post-apocalyptic world we can all understand that but seeing the softer side of their relationship I thought it was really endearing and I appreciated seeing that but there were just a lot of different things I know you mentioned that Kathleen was very annoying and I agree there were moments where I'm like damn it why do you keep interrupting here and I get it but I did think you know they did a good job of at least making me feel empathetic towards her I mean I did feel for her I feel terrible that you know Sam had to do them make the moral decision and like, hey, do I give up this man that I really deeply care for and respect, and he's a big part of this resistance movement that's going to help us from Fedra, but it's to save my world, my brother, which I'm not going to go

into possible foreshadowing, but I just think it was a really interesting moral dilemma to give us that's something from the game we didn't really get to see much of from Henry. I mean, it was just more of, hey, let's go out of this, let's get out of Pittsburgh situation. I'm going to do whatever it takes to save my brother.

the extent of what we got from Henry in the game so I think they gave you know they made him a much more in my opinion three more three dimensional character in this episode and I really appreciated you know the layers that they gave this character and I thought the actor who played I mean I think all the actors did a great job in this episode the actor played Henry he was great you could see how broken he was from the decision he had to make but you know again you could empathize with his decision because he was saving his brother's life so I just I thought they did a lot of really interesting angles and we got um in bloater yeah that was freaking awesome oh man they really nailed it with that i know it was a little sad that he didn't throw the spores or whatever but whatever i mean

it was it was so cool to see a bloater and live action like that was awesome but yeah no i mean this was a great episode and also seeing you know the belly and joel uh relationship came more fleshed out i really appreciate that just again little nuances and moments like where he it You know, the sniper is cornering them, and Joel is saying, I'm going to go around here. And Ellie's like, no, no, no, you could get hit. Like, just little things like that. It just adds a big, you know, layer to their relationship. And I like how it's slowly being fleshed out.

It's just, ah, I'm so invested in those two. They're so good together. Yeah. I mean, like the last of us, video game, the first one, is pretty short for a video game. In comparison to the second one, too. Yeah. But it's still longer than nine episodes of television will be. You know what I mean?

Yeah. like it's still going to be longer than that um because so much of the storytelling does advance as part of the game like if you only watch just the cutscenes their story that's intertwined in dialogue where you're like that's what they say in the game that's probably that's happening while you're doing gameplay a lot of the time so you know it's like you can't like infuse everything uh into here understandably so and i think that the you know the themes that they with that resonate so strong of you know the the consequences of what we do for love and you know they started talking about forgiveness here and so much of this of the world of last of us it just

primarily i think deals with with the topic of consequences you know uh like having this thing with henry where he he made a choice um and now there's just massive consequences to it you know and the the ultimate it's so it's just so so last of us it's so last of us and so neil drunkman like oh for sure to have you know because it's like of course i remembered that in the game obviously you know yeah uh sam does get um attacked and he does but he keeps it a secret yeah and i like this and then and then henry ends up having to kill his brother and then um we'll say unalives himself because youtube sensitive about a certain word but the the way it went down here did have a little bit more of a realistic approach um but yeah it does have it has

that thing about that i i think that neil drunkman sometimes likes to refuse of how can we break their hearts more of hey let's have joel welcome them to go to wyoming the moment before we learn that sam's infected hey let's yeah sam will keep infected but let's have him tell ellie and have helly hope that her blood will actually cure this guy that was a really interesting angle i'd love that yeah it it does add that dimension to it um because yeah in the it's it this show has an interesting contrast uh to to to the game because in some ways you spend more time with henry and sam in the game but in a lot of ways you get to know henry and sam a lot more in the show absolutely within the this one hour episode that they have

so it's it's very it's very interesting how they do that because what's no no no no i was i was listening no i felt like you wanted to say something i want you to be able to say stuff and no no no keep going all right i think i'll keep going anyway yeah they have so they so i like what they're doing with henry and i liked what they did with henry and sam here a lot and how like the encounters that joel has i think there's like a i think the arc you guys obviously even if you haven't played the game I think the

the obvious arc of Joel getting in touch with his fatherhood side while bonding with Ellie is extremely apparent even if you haven't played right you just spoiled it for me man you know like that's that's obvious

and what I'm liking is this sort of nomad approach that the show's taking this wanderer whereas you're on the roads the travels you have an encounter like oh he gets this letter from bill and that affects him and that kind of plays into that arc he encounters henry and sam and through dialogue exchanges that he has there that affects him that it plays into that arc and i think that's really neat how they

develop that because you don't have as much time as a game so they find ways of okay well how can we make certain scenes more substantial so that way we can still have that desired effect that we're looking for because I did have I did I did I did find I I've never in the it took five episodes for me to get here um five in total where I found myself going oh you skipped over some stuff that I really would have liked to have seen in live action the tunnel scene I mean yeah the the tunnel scene and just just some like overall sneaking sequences you know like there's it's like significantly more complex, you know, when he's having to sneak to the sniper.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's like a whole bunch of people and stuff. Yeah, I'm like, okay, you kind of just like, like ran back there and got up there, you know. And so I do, I do find myself, um, that, I do find my, that was the, this was the first episode where I would find myself actually thinking out, way more than the Bill and Frank episode because for some reason,

I think it's because in the Bill and Frank episode, there was almost like nothing that was from the game so it didn't really make me think about the game when I was watching that episode whereas here there were stuff where I was like really thinking about the game and then I found myself kind of missing some stuff they skipped out on so it does have to be a little bit of a mental check for myself I go that's different that's the game this is the show how is the show doing it and I thought show was handling it really well because I actually think the the way the sequence went like when he shot um when when henry had to kill his brother here uh this i like how they they he doesn't have time to think about it you know it they don't play into this like big rumination conflict of like what do i do what do

what do i do it's just like such a fraught tense situation that is just it's like it's all off instinct in that moment and then and then it's a realization of like what have i done which is kind of like how it does in the game but it's it's played with something i felt more realistic to me in this scenario um so yeah i i think that they they really hit it here the thing with the one thing i'll say is the thing with kathleen there's just something about her that i wasn't truly interested in and i and i have no idea like it was one of those things where yeah i you're doing all the things that i would like a show to do if you're bringing in this character and you're fleshing them out you're giving them more humanity you're giving them more layers

it was this weird thing for me where i just i found myself going i feel like on paper everything to make me click with this idea of having this character here and what you're doing should make me interested in her but i'm really not i i have no idea why i i just wasn't in tune i don't know if it was the performance i don't like to dog performers but i don't know if it was the performance um it it just was something that i preferred it when you would just check in with her and she was like just a villain and and uh like the the with it with the with the tinge of humanity like the last episode where you could tell like oh this is rooted in the pain of losing her brother yeah yeah like that stuff but i did really like that scene though with her and geoffrey pierce

explaining about you know the forgiveness and her brother and all that and saying i don't care about Because it does play a lot into some themes that I can't go into a foreshadowing about revenge and losing your humanity and just what that can do to you. So I did, you know, from that perspective, it was told Neil Druckman, told The Last of Us, I appreciate it from that perspective. But I hear what you're saying. You're just more used to seeing her as a stocker for Charlie Sheehan on two and a half minutes. Must be like, you're not funny. What's going on here? I mean, I get where you're coming from.

But that's the thing with that, it was that scene when it really hit me when I'm like, I've really feel. I feel like I should be more interested in what's happening, but I kind of just want to cut back to the other stuff right now. Fair enough. Fair enough. Fair enough. But to your point... I didn't find her believable.

I mean, if I have to be really honest, like I guess I just didn't find her all that believable. No, there were points, too, where I was agreeing with you was a little, like, this character is annoying. But again, I understood her motivations. I could sympathize with her. I get where she's coming from. I can't say, you know, if someone... Again, we know that Henry didn't murder her brother,

but he basically laid him out in the lamb, you know, to Fedra. So I get where her anger stems from. I could understand that from a character perspective. But I get what you're saying. There were just times we were like, all right, I'm kind of done with this checkout. I just want to go back to Henry Sam, Joel, and Belly, and let's get hopefully a bloater in here somewhere.

So I could sympathize with what you were saying. But to what you were saying earlier, you made a really good point because we definitely got, it felt like at least in the video game when it comes to Sam and Henry, we got to spend more time with them at least because there's an extended tunnel sequence that we got

like maybe five minutes here. Yeah, and then sneaking around the guards. Yeah, there's a whole bunch of shit. Yeah, but so I get, you're totally right when it comes to that, but again, I appreciate that we got more character moments. We got to know them more, and that's what I love,

what I've loved that whole tunnel sequence. Hell yeah. Probably would have cost a lot of money, to include those sequences. So I get where they're taking shortcuts. And I appreciate what Neil Druckman said, like, hey, if it makes sense in our story, we're going to stick exactly to the game for the most part. If it's something that we can improve upon, we're going to do that.

And for the most part, they've pretty much nailed that down. I've loved everything that they've included or got rid of. I can appreciate what you're saying in terms of that snipe because in the game, that sniper sequence, there's so much, I mean, when you got just the few guys coming out after you and then that's i mean it it takes a good five to ten minutes even if you're really good at that game to get in there and i'm not saying we needed to spend that much time yeah and the in the game you are you're joel and you're and you're trying to get henry sam and ellie to get to you yeah and you have to keep shooting now bad guys i keep coming yeah but i mean again i i do like

the changes overall throughout the uh what is that five episodes we watch throughout the five episodes i think they've made smart changes and expanded where they need to and again the whole angle of same. I still love the episode. Oh, yeah. No, no. The other people think that. You were hated it, great. No, no, no. No, no. It's no. No, it's no. If you have, I'm not calling nitpicks, but it's things that, like, hey, I just, I was thinking about this in the game. No, it's fair. What? You're making fair points. And, you know, it's better. I can be the only one. yeah no no for sure but uh and i mean the action like finally we got a really action-packed episode

i mean i know we got at the beginning of episode four we got to see uh joel and belly like uh unloading on on the hunters but the action we got like i mean at least for me i don't remember ever in the game that many amount of infected coming at once so well it's like they i like that because it was like a hive mine was just building up and there just waiting to break out yeah and so it's like a cool crescendo of sorts. And it's, I like the ironic part of, it was these guys who pushed them all under the tunnels and now it's come back to swallow them. Yeah. And we saw that foreshadowing, obviously, the, uh, at the, at some point in the last episode, we saw the rumble and we're like, oh, is that what we think it is. Yeah, yeah. And because she didn't prepare for it. Yeah,

yeah, because she was so caught up in revenge. Yeah. No, thanks sense. The consequence came back to eat her alive. At literally and figuratively speaking. And the imagery, too, I don't know, Maybe I'm crazy. I mean, I am crazy, but the imagery reminded me a lot of Stephen Summers, the mummy, and the mummy returns when the scarbs just come out. Like you said, it just reminded me a lot of that. But, no, overall, great episode. I really liked the two actors who played Henry and Sam. That was, I just was, I mean, obviously, I was already emotionally invested in the characters from the game, but obviously different things, seeing him on the TV show.

And right away in one episode is hooked. I love the way they inserted the nonlinear storytelling from the beginning, back to, to their perspective from what was happening in the last episode. It reminded me a lot of Man of Steel and Batman v. Superman, the end of Man of Steel, and then seeing it from Bruce Wayne's perspective at the beginning of Batman versus Superman, just seeing those different perspectives intersecting, intertwining rather.

So I thought that was a really neat and interesting touch. But overall, yeah, I love this episode. It really did a good job just balancing so many different things. You felt exhilarated from the action. You felt really heartbroken and gut-wrenched from not only what happened to Sam and Henry, but like you could tell with Belly that it really like not only broke her a little bit that she just like she just started bonding not only with Sam and Henry but she thought like she had something that could save him and then just the the heart wreck of no not being able to so it's just she feels like she's got to have more of a purpose to what's happening. Absolutely. So I just I thought this this episode just did a great job of hitting on so many different levels from action to emotion to heartbreak to it was just and really. really well-paced.

It's just a very exhilarating episode that I really appreciate and loved. I know the trailer without, you can be very careful. I know the trailer show, because they mentioned the character Riley in the first episode, and I know the trailer shows you Riley. Like, she's kind of on IMDB, so, you know, you got to see what's happened with Riley. What was that whole story, right? like they got to explore that at some point in the show and oh i'm trying to figure i how to formulate my words and saying this i think like the the story of riley that they hinted at in the first one

um in the first episode it was neat to see that they that they still infused the whole thing of henry uh sam and and ellie bonding and it kind of reminds me of what I remember from the stuff with Riley and Gabe I guess that's the best non-spoiler way of it. I'm just I don't know what I mean. I don't know how to formulate without spoiling so I'm just

going to say I agree with you. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah. And and because of that that even added to a layer for that was one of the crazy benefits of having played the game is because of that, that even makes the bonding with, um, you know, uh, Sam even more heartbreaking. Uh, yeah. That's all. I mean, that's about it. I'm not, guys, that was, I got to tell you, that was beyond

entertaining. Watching Greg, like, just really carefully. How do I want to say this without really spoiling too much? That was good. That was, that was our. I was like, I know. We got to be, I know. We got to be careful because we've already been accused. a few times of spoiling stuff just from the most ridiculous things but yeah

but no it's it's this this this in particular one was great and yeah I don't understand why Perry I look at the Perry

to the Perry that Jeffrey Pierce yeah you just just run and he's just was like that bloater's coming for me

I'm gonna run dude come on Jeffrey Pierce is like I gotta have an epic death by bloater I met it felt like that kind of thing where it's like

if I'm gonna be in the show you better give me an epic debt i would yeah for sure but i from a character's perspective like it's a damn bloater like run dude run oh yeah it's like dude run or throw some fire out one of the two um but uh yeah i'm like he's gonna get rid of you in a second his blotered like you're not like buying her much time um and yeah and that was that was crazy that was a crazy sequence it was a cool crescendo of of sort of a whole array of all these kind of crazy things but yeah no and just really quick from the that final trailer we got where we got to see the bloater and we saw a few infected like coming out from from the from the fire of that

house i didn't think there was going to be this many infected so that was a nice there was a lot there was a night there were a lot of nice surprises in this episode so i was just i was really happy uh from a gamer perspective and from just good damn episode of television i was really happy. I do think that sometimes, I think even from like a television stamp, even sometimes it is a little bit challenging to assess, like the only thing I can do is be honest about it. Sometimes it can be a challenging to assess like, how would I feel about this moment if, like, without the game, right? Because sometimes it does feel like there were parts of the pacing that did feel off to me at times during this episode. And I'm not, and the thing, the

thing is like I'm not entirely sure if it's just because I'm like it just feel like a cut down version of what I know I think that's what it was because I I was kind of thinking in my head okay wow the tonal sequence was really cut down and then the going right to the snipers there's like build up to stuff and yeah and then there's not much tension and then it's like there's a whole swarm of people then they just find a place to like it just cuts to them they're hiding someplace you know I get what I get what you're saying because sometimes I get the impression this show has the approach of like I don't want any fat no fat here no fat like no bullshit

here but no fat and then there are other times i'm like well now i feel like we kind of just skip to the scene or or or just rushed to this moment but it was only in this episode where i felt that at like certain points right it's not like the whole thing yeah yeah very very minimal certain points but yeah because i did i found it interesting when you made the comment when they were outside after the tunnel like oh they're out of the tonne oh okay yeah we're outside okay okay okay we're at the sniper scene all right yeah yeah okay yeah yeah so even the sniper scene kind of went fast like oh they introduce this whole thing as i'm wondering like okay if i was just watching this without the game without the game like from a i i i feel like i would feel the same way honestly

even in the sniper scene like that went by pretty fast and he kind of got up there pretty like oh this is a problem no not really he kind of just like ran to the left and ran up there no for sure in the game it felt like not an impossible test but you really felt the danger of the situation not that we didn't feel like an obstacle and this didn't feel like an obstacle it just it felt like the Avengers fighting Ultron. It just felt really easy. Yeah, that seemed like, he's like, it's dark, it's not a problem.

He's literally just like a minute later he's up there. And so, yeah, there were parts of this where I did feel like this episode for some reason that had the most, the times when I was most aware of the editing when I haven't had that at all actually at all with the first four episodes. So yeah, this was the, this is the, one where I, like while I love the episode still, this was the first episode of the five

where I was like, I'm finding some, for some of that I have a little bit of, a little bit of criticisms for things or things that just didn't really jive with me. But yeah, but we still loved it, guys. That doesn't mean we didn't love it. Yeah. I mean, I'm like, I have some have some qualms and I would like to address them in this particular episode because that's what we're here. But yeah, guys, leave your thoughts down below. What did you think about the episode did you think it was perfect um did uh what did you love what did you not love tell us tell everyone um last but not least uh let's end this with a p michael b omnimedia ladies and gentlemen i happen to know that this guy this guy is a

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