‘The Last of Us’: Whose gay porn magazine is Ellie in? Does it clarify the controversy?

It is Monday, that is, the day to talk in depth about one of the best series on HBO Max, especially for those who need all kinds of clarifications, such as discovering whose gay porn magazine Ellie is in and why she clarifies that controversy when HBO changed the original story of Bill and Frank in ‘The Last of Us’.

And it is that, although we have given a lot of hype to the main differences between the series and the video game in ‘The Last of Us’, the HBO Max title is being almost a 1:1 version of the original Naughty Dog video game scripted by Neil Druckmann, also the main person in charge of this production together with Craig Mazin.

Perhaps for this reason (although we all know that it is not for this reason) chapter 3 created so much commotion, both positive and negative, among the acolytes of the video game and, although here we are curious talking about the union of ‘The Last of Us’ and ‘The White Lotus’ you didn’t expect, the conversation centered on the suitability of the series focusing on the relationship between Frank and Bill, the protagonists of an episode that dared to separate for the first time from its source, but to what extent?

In essence, not much. Although his story is different, Frank and Bill’s path ends in a very similar place, and needless to say, the same goes for the implications for Joel and Ellie.who in all versions end up taking Bill’s car and finding in it another little “clue” to the survivor’s sexual orientation.

“It’s short on text but the photos are amazing,” Ellie exclaims when she finds a gay porn magazine in Bill’s truck. “How could she walk around with that thing?”

The deniers of non-heterosexual relationships have come to doubt even the relationship of these two characters in the video game, something for which you only have to pay the slightest attention while one holds the controller and refers to his missing colleague as “partner”. shortly before the digital Ellie runs into the same magazine that, a decade later, we have seen in the series.

What was seen in chapter 4 is a return to the formal tracingbut as far as depth is concerned, it has not been necessary to return to something since, with its author always present, the series has never strayed away from the video game. Thanks to the new version of Bill and Frank’s relationship, one based on affection, respect, the chapter focused on how love is the only way out of hell. The episode reminds us that even the most prepared are lost if they don’t have someone to keep fighting for, something that will undoubtedly be transferred to Joel and Ellie and that works as a fundamental pillar of this franchise..

A brilliant underlining, respectful of the original, coming from the author as novel and inclusive as it is necessary, as the commotion caused indicates. Continue the adventure!