I’m curious, how does is feel to be this stupid? 

counterpoint - johnny depp is  violent, pill-addled degenerate.

Ah the Deppites are here.

I’ve had the exact opposite experience. So, it seems, has Barkin. Weird. 

Vulture does a marginally better job if you’re interested in more substantive recaps/reviews. Sadly, AV Club’s recaps have been heavy on plot retelling with very little analysis for a while now. You used to be able to identify a thesis, a main argument each review was making about the episode, in AVC recaps. But now…

I thought that there were two things the episode could have done to elevate itself a bit more. The first would have been lingering on Kathleen’s death a little bit more, sort of like how the camera did on Bob Newby in Stranger Things when the demodogs get him. Second, I would have accompanied the ending shots of Joel…

Yeah why is it always the palm! Such an impractical choice.

So you’re telling me the battle in Kansas City, where FEDRA lost, happened like a week before Joel and Ellie showed up?

Although I enjoyed the episode overall, it’s the first that felt predictable (I haven’t played the game so I don’t know how much of what happened comes from it).

It’s not a 1-for-1 comparison, but given the KC FEDRA was apparently a group of fascist monsters who committed horrible atrocities, I can absolutely see why people would follow Kathleen if she’s the one who spearheaded the resistance and overthrew them. It’d be kind of like if the Jewish resistance in the Warsaw…

It’s cool and all, but why would bloaters want to kill people? Isn’t the whole point of the fungus people to spread the fungus? What good does killing people do for this goal? They aren’t really zombies, so dead people are useless to them.

and it’s also as much about evil humans as it is about the infected.

literally white male genocide, gamers rise up, 1984

Mixed feelings about the episode.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a site with better reviews and critical analysis of new episodes of The Last of Us? These recaps are awful and add nothing to the experience of what we all just watched.

Yeah I read it and just thought “and also Norton’s 12th great grandfather was a child rapist.”

I’m gonna be that person who points out that Indigenous people tell a very different story about Pocahontas than this article does. They consider her a stolen sister. She was not willingly married to John Smith and Pocahontas wasn’t her real name. She was kidnapped and raped, but he gave her dad a copper pot, so…

which as much as I think Elvis was unaware of his appropriation of Black music, I don’t think he was unaware that he groomed a girl because even back then people thought that was fucking weird.

I’m also guessing based on the casting choice of Olivia DeJonge and the reviews I’ve heard so far that the movie sidesteps the issue of a 14 year old girl being courted by a man in his mid-20s.

Nah, it’s a perfectly valid perspective given how identifiable Luhrmann’s tropes are and the fact this is a biopic and not an original script.