{"id":1831934,"date":"2023-02-01T16:04:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T21:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1831934"},"modified":"2023-02-01T16:04:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T21:04:44","slug":"the-last-of-us-director-says-he-wanted-to-trick-audience-into-watching-gay-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-last-of-us-director-says-he-wanted-to-trick-audience-into-watching-gay-love-story\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Last Of Us\u2019 Director Says He Wanted To \u2018Trick\u2019 Audience Into Watching Gay Love Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-last-of-us-director-says-he-wanted-to-trick-audience-into-watching-gay-love-story%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1831934&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>\u201cThe Last of Us\u201d Peter Hoar, director, said that he wanted to \u201ctrick\u201d his audience into watching a gay love story in an episode of HBO Max\u2019s new apocalyptic drama.<\/p>\n<p>Hoar is gay and is well-known for his work in the British LGBT+ miniseries. \u201cIt\u2019s a Sin,\u201d He said that he wanted viewers see that it was the \u201csame love\u201d As straight people, but only between two men, ahref=&#8221;https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/news\/last-of-us-episode-3-nick-offerman-b2272921.html?utm_medium=Social&#038;utm_source=Facebook&#038;fbclid=IwAR28zmmQXFCVmR3iW8Jlsehtrraob9rQPbKO_PG55PYGqCR7uc1niSZOLX4#Echobox=1675222615&#8243;>Independent UK<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes you have to sort of trick the rest of the world into watching these things before they\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, my God, it was two guys. I just realized,&#8217;\u201d Hoar told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/entertainment\/the-last-of-us-episode-3-director-peter-hoar-interview\">Inverse<\/a> magazine ahead the release of the zombie series\u2019 Third episode.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think then they might understand that it\u2019s all real,\u201d He concluded. \u201cIt\u2019s just the same love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Continue your journey.https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheLastofUs?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&#8221;>#TheLastofUs<\/a> HBO Max will host a new season. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GdcL4Uhkfv\">pic.twitter.com\/GdcL4Uhkfv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 HBO Max (@hbomax) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hbomax\/status\/1619017944263958529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first two episodes were based on the popular video game. They focused on fighting zombies. However, the third one veered off course with a self-contained romance between two surviving men Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett) who hadn\u2019t been infected with the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Reading through reviews on\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/tv\/the_last_of_us\/s01\/reviews?type=user\">Rotten Tomatoes,<\/a>\u201d the third episode didn\u2019t sit well with many who suggested skipping it, as most of the episode consisted of the romance between the two men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf episode 3 was about a heterosexual couple, fans would still be bored and disappointed,\u201d One person wrote. \u201cMost fans are watching for the adaptation of a video game about fighting zombies, not a full episode about romance. We all know why the episode is receiving high praise, let\u2019s calm down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t respect the existing story in the game with this episode 3, terrible!\u201d Another wrote.<\/p>\n<p>One share \u201cEpisode 3 was an hour of my life I will never get back. Just watch episodes 1 &#038; 2 and wait until episode 4 comes out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Et cetera \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonsensemedia.org\/tv-reviews\/the-last-of-us\/user-reviews\/adult\">Common Sense Media<\/a>\u201d A reviewer criticised the site for not showing all of its features. \u201creviews based on first\/early episodes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a sex scene between two men in episode 3 not mentioned anywhere,\u201d The person wrote. \u201cFor new\/current series, there should be a weekly update from the review team. I wrote a similar review to the Terminal List series and as of today, it is still not updated. Very irresponsible to parents\/guradians who use this site. Especially those who subscribe monthly. Please fix!!!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Last of Us\u201d director Peter Hoar said he wanted to \u201ctrick\u201d his audience into watching a gay love story in an episode of HBO Max\u2019s new apocalyptic drama. Hoar, who is gay and is known for his work on the British LGBT+ miniseries, \u201cIt\u2019s a Sin,\u201d said that he wanted the viewers to see &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1831937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6962,10554,6350,7644,7150,4178,9273,9029,14140],"class_list":["post-1831934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-the","tag-audience","tag-director","tag-gay","tag-love","tag-story","tag-trick","tag-us","tag-watching"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1831937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}