When I was 12, every night for close to two months someone would knock on my bedroom window. It was usually after 11 p.m. and before 2 a.m. and, at the beginning, would wake me from a dead sleep to where I thought I was dreaming. A few times I even heard the knocking in my dreams and then woke up and the knocking was…

Can we talk about how your boyfriend just ran and left you behind?

The scariest stories are always the true ones. I’m glad you got out ok!

My folks bought a large farm house built in 1924 the summer before I started 3rd grade (1984ish). My mom, brother and I had been gone all summer at her folks on the east coast, and my dad and some friends moved us in while we were gone.

It’s never made much sense to me. He’s extremely handsome, he’s willing to make fun of himself, he’s got good comedic timing, he can sing, he’s charming... it’s just weird to me that he never really popped.

Melanie Lynskey’s career literally started with her being an unknown cast in Heavenly Creatures because she conveyed this rare quality of being unassuming on the surface and being able to convey dark thoughts and energy underneath that 

I always think Lynskey’s power as an actor is in her ability to evoke a lot of darkness below what may seem an unassuming surface. she seems to make sense as a leader, someone with a foot in the old world of things and in the new.

If you haven’t watched the episode yet, why are you going to a website that reviews this show and will be discussing it before you watch it?

Yeah, even without Frank’s disease I think ultimately that would have always been their fate - carry on until you can’t anymore (because age and other health issues would’ve caught up with them eventually) and then they’d go out together on their own terms. Because what else are you going to do?

- Bill’s letter and the way Ellie read it was superb. The “hehehehehe” made me laugh out loud.

Agreed. I mean, uncurbable illness is always tragic in a sense. It will always seems unfair. I went through that with my father three years ago. What makes it part of truly living though, is how that person and everyone who cares about them deals with it, and this episode was brilliant about that. There was an openness…

Yeah if I was living in a zombie apocalypse and I was near the end of my life with no other family and my spouse was dying I could think of worse ways to go than dying in your sleep with the person you love, y’know?

It was on TNT and it’s big bads were spider aliens and mechs, so very CGI heavy. They spent their money pretty well all things considered.

Yeah I fully agree it’s not a tragedy (other than taking place in an apocalypse).

Yes Bill *could* have kept living and it wouldn’t have cheapened things if he did. But if I was in his shoes I strongly suspect I would have made the same choice and died content and happy with it.

The funny thing is after last week’s teaser for this episode, I thought the story would be that Joel and Ellie visit Bill & Frank, on their way out Joel warns Bill about bandit attacks (in the teaser I assumed Tess was actually Ellie) and then they get attacked and Bill tells Frank to get Joel to come back and help…

I remember enjoying that show but also thinking it looked incredibly cheap at pretty much every turn. 

But part of me wishes that Joel had been not a construction worker, but instead, oh, a poetry professor at UT-Austin who also happens to be good at clambering over rubble and shooting zombies in the face.

While I was a bit taken aback the detour with this romance, I couldn’t believe how solidly it was written, directed and most certainly acted. The entire setting of a near complete small town fenced off from the catastrophe outside a was akin to the strawberries that brought them so much joy. But you could see in that…

My god, what a nightmare.

I have a few stories about my mom in this thread, so I waited a bit to write my own. A simple but powerful occurrence.