Cathleen Falsani: This Numinous World

Cathleen Falsani: This Numinous World

Monday Stories: I Think I'm Gonna Love You For A Long, Long Time

The first in a series of Monday stories based on Sunday television episodes that are too good to wait a week to write about, so I call an audible. Today: the Bill and Frank episode of 'The Last of Us"

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Cathleen Falsani
Jan 30, 2023
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Frank, left, portrayed by Murray Bartlett) and the incomparable Nick Offerman as Bill in HBO’s The Last of Us. Image via HBO.

As a fan of neither the zombie apocalypse genre nor video games, imagine my surprise stumbling into one of the most emotionally affecting hours of television I’ve ever experienced in last night’s episode of HBO’s The Last of Us.

I…

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