Poll: Did You Love The Last of Us - Episode 5?

This masterpiece keeps rolling on. Absolutely fantastic.

I genuinely want to know the reason why someone would rate this episode as terrible

They really are nailing this show. This was another powerful and moving episode. Waiting week to week is painful in 2023!

Fell asleep halfway through the second episode, no desire to go back. Hated all the characters. Don’t really get the hype. Love the game and have played through three times.

My freakin heart 💔

@CVCubbington the show is great, you just have a short attention span if you’re just watching and not playing TLoU it seems

@CVCubbington They're the same characters from the game...?

Already the most bleak part of the game. The additions didn’t really do much for me but it was still as miserable as the game. I guess if you’re into that sort of thing then it was probably good.

This would have been my favorite episode if not for Kathleen. She was awful… And not in the intended way.

GREAT episode. I didn't think it was possible, but I think they improved the Sam and Henry relationship from the game. Those two actors playing them were terrific.

Very good episode. I really enjoyed the extra character building we got with Sam and Henry.

And that final chaotic battle at the end was extremely well done considering it’s on a TV budget.

This show will win best costume and best makeup. And the CG enemy I won’t spoil was well done too.

Overall really good episode.

@OrtadragoonX
I'm sure all the people complaining about not seeing enough infected will stop complaining now lol.

@Poker_1987 Every time I think that the standard on this site can’t get any lower, people like you prove me wrong.

@Poker_1987 Pathetic.

The episode was pretty good. I like the series so far. It's not the best thing since sliced bread but they've done a good job. would get a 7/10 thus far from me.

@nessisonett I think it's the same few handful of people that have nothing better to do with their lives than spout useless sh*te on the internet. Whenever I see a comment like that it's always from a new account with one or two comments. Makes me feel a bit sorry for them really.

@Poker_1987
Oh wow haven't heard that one a million times, how original.

Had my Endure and Survive shirt on and didn't even know it was coming lol.

Yeah, but I didn't like the changes and they were extra stuff that wasn't in the game that could've been replaced by the game's stuff.

I can't take the two and a half men woman serious. Horrible casting with her.

@GodofCapcom exactly. Great episode but her casting was a miss. Good actress, just not for that role

If YOU marked this as Terrible then you need Jesus. FFS.

I can't do weekly I'm waiting for it all to be finished then I can watch Ron Swanson! He can eat steak like a machine and make a chair ,table pretty much a whole office block... I love Ron Swanson hot dang can't wait.

I mean, you might not like it, but saying it's terrible is showing you know nothing about tv or cinema lol
Anyway, I thought it was excellent, in particular the action scenes at the end were really cool.

good episode but agree Kathleen was pathetic. She was terribly acted, it was like they had dragged a teacher in off the street . Yes she was meant to be a poor leader but surely not that poor, weak and improbable.
Otherwise a good episode after a disappointing ep 3

@JehutyMD because they worship Xbox!!

The best episode of the season for myself personally. The infected encounter was extremely intense the whole way! And man Henry and Sam were both portrayed absolutely wonderfully.

They kind of failed the Bill section of the game in episode 3 for me but I that was not the case here. I thought they nailed how heartbreaking Sam and Henry's story ended. 10/10 episode for me really well done!

Really didn't like the acting/casting for Kathleen. Maybe we just didn't get enough backstory but she wasn't even remotely inspiring, why would anyone follow her lead?

Also the acting felt very awkward and stiff. The rest of the cast has been phenomenal so feel like a huge miss on the one that stands out.

My favorite episode; best one yet. The second they revealed Sam was deaf, I said they are definitely making this part of the story even more heartbreaking than the videogame. Loved it.

I love the show. Only minor complaint is that it seems like each episode is it's own self contained story in which new characters will also leave that show at the end of the episode to never return. I would have loved to see some characters return in multiple episodes so we can get more attached to them or feel more impact when they leave.
The whole espisode about Bill feels like it could have been the last episode of a season or even show, it was that good!
But it would have been so much better if we first get to meet Bill a couple of episodes before we get the episode that we got.

It was a very good episode, as to what I voted it as being, but when you play the game on the first play through and can kind of predict the outcome in the show, things seems to lose their gravity.

I liked that they made Sam deaf, which made his reliance on Henry even more important.

Everyone seemed to hate Kathleen, which I did not mind, The creators were just trying to give a face to what you, as a player, was running from in the game during the Henry and Sam segment. That being said, the game's antagonists seemed more brutal, than in the show, in my opinion.

In the game, they were basically killing people over shoes or boots. This is something that I think has been missing from the show. The desperation of people to survive. This is something I think that has been portrayed better in the game, than in the series. The way I took it from the game, were people overran a FEDRA QZ out of desperation and need, as opposed to Kathleen's need for vengance, Joel even eludes to this circumstance at one point in the game.

But what really bothered me about the episode is that they just gave a nod to Kyle and Ish, which I really wanted them to focus on, hell, I wanted the first last of us dlc to be about Kyle and Ish's backstory. Theirs was a tragic end, and would have fit into the desperation, and would have added to the series story greatly.

Again, the show is just showing 2 characters plot through a wasteland, but there has been little, to no desperation, of people TRYING to survive displayed. This is what I feel the game did better......Again, Looking at Kyle and Ish...

I mean i can get it if you just dont like the TV show for some reason. But to say like episode 3 was bad. I guess some people didn’t understand that the most important part of that episode was the letter from Bill to Joel. We needed to understand the story of Bill to appreciate the impact the letter would have on Joel’s mindset to protect Ellie. Without the story of Bill and Frank the letter would have been shallow at best. Tess death was necessary for Joel and Ellie to bound. With Tess alive it would have never happened.Her death and the promise he made to Tess was the first step to help Joel find his purpose. Men like us are here for a reason. The letter from Bill was the second push. The third push was Henry and his unconditional love for Sam and his willingness to do whatever it takes to protect his brother. Even if it meant to do bad things. All these events are breaking through Joel’s defense’s. It’s perfect. I guess some just need mindless action and shallow stories to be happy. Any depth in storytelling is to much for their brains.

Another brilliant episode,I'm looking forward to episode 6, I'm loving the story......

@JehutyMD trolling

@ThaBEN
This is very faithful to the game though, you never see Bill or Frank again, or Henry and Sam (obviously), so if there was more time with them they'd be making it up instead of adapting the game. I get the desire for more character building but I don't think creating new story that doesn't at least have the game's framework to follow is what you want

Loved it right up my trumpet. They should make a game out of it!

They are doing a great job on this show. For the 5th episode I scored it with “good”. In my opinion, it wasn’t as strong as a few of the other episodes, but I still really enjoyed it.

@ThaBEN that's exactly why I didn't like the 3rd episode. We're introduced to a new character, we follow him for 20yrs, but then he dies at the end of the episode. I felt zero connection with Bill.

And obviously they had to pick the cutest kid imaginable to play Sam didn't they. It made it so much harder to watch knowing what was going to happen.

I have to say, this is the episode that Bella truly won me over as Ellie. An absolutely fantastic performance all around and brilliant casting in general. I thought the choice to make Sam deaf was an excellent decision that worked really well and yet another addition that works amazing in the show but never would have worked in the game.

@PaleBluu did you even play the game? We see bill for a split second in reality and never see him again, we never see Frank at all alive.
So to have an actual episode with an actual back story to those characters was alot better tv, than them meeting Bill and going off fighting loads of infected to grab a non existent battery from a school. Games version works amazingly well for a game and the TV episode gave me the insight into the lives of these characters we hardly get to know. This goes to everyone saying about people dying every episode.

Its like you all played a different game to me, pretty much every character we encounter either dies or is never seen again.

so to then say each episode is a contained story and we never interact with them characters again is exactly like the game for each chapter, im not sure what you all think a journey is, they don't walk back through in the game they are always heading forward.

The game itself is many contained stories within its chapters, non of them are linked apart from. Joel and Elle The show is just giving us a back story to the other characters aswel as the main story.

On topic though this episode was great. I'm not sure what the problem with Kathleen is, we join her story in the middle of her story.
You don't need a madman or a hard man to start a rebellion, you just need someone who can talk and inspire and diplomatic.
My view was her brother was the diplomatic leader of their group, he tried to do it peacefully but fedra used henry to get to him, and killed him, which set Kathleen on a crazed rampage of slaughter, the men followed her because of the respect and hope of her and her brothers vision.

I actually thought it was very believable and a great casting, id of liked to see more of a back story but somethings aren't worth it for the main show.

@Bez87 I've played the game 3 times and literally bought the PS5 version last night to replay for a 4th time. I understand what you're saying, but I was looking forward to Bill interacting with Joel and especially Ellie. Instead we are given a huge back story to a character that just appears all of a sudden (in the TV series), has minimal interaction with our protagonists, and then is never seen again. I understand the significance of the note, but Bill doesn't seem important to Joel/Ellie. In contrast I actually felt for Tess, because we saw her relationship with Joel/Ellie for 2 episodes. She was an ally and we cared about her.
Same with Kathleen. I don't understand why there was so much investment in their story when they're basically throwaway characters, put on screen to be an obstacle in Joel and Ellie's journey. Kathleen did nothing of significance and then she too dies in the most anticlimactic way.

Took me a while to get around to this episode, but finally watched it tonight. It's definitely very good to excellent, my only real gripe is I wish they lingered on the heartbreaking moments longer than they do, give people a chance to form some tears or have a good clear of the throat and absorb the moments. I get drawn right in and the next second Joel is casually patting a shovel on some dirt and the moment is gone. At least this time there was the secondary "I'm sorry" to bring it back

There's no rush though, which sometimes it seems like there is. People need time to absorb the atmosphere (maybe because half the audience already know everything so the timing is slightly skewed during edits) it happens most weeks too, just give people time, cos the moment passes otherwise. Which means I'm still yet to cry at this series, and I'd be much happier to have actually had a cry 😭

Oh and "gamer" moments still make me cringe in tv. Like big beasty boss fungus crawling out of the sewer, these things are so cliche and obviously gamey, and they always makes me laugh and slightly embarrassed, in games these moments work a lot better, in TV maybe there is another way to do it, I don't know 😂 it's part of the fun of adaptions though, I guess, and I'm happy to give a pass to these things, because this series is doing a phenomenal job all-round!