EntertainmentThe Last of Us: What disease does Frank have? In ‘Long, Long Time’, the third episode of The Last of Us, the audience follows the touching love story between Bill and Franktoday at 11:58

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In the episode of The Last of Us most different from the original game to date, “Long, Long Time” introduced the audience to two characters: Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett), who ends up suffering from a mysterious illness.

The episode in question focuses completely on the experience of Bill with the onset of the apocalyptic pandemic caused by the fungus Cordyceps. Throughout the chapter, the audience follows their relationship (from beginning to end), with a lot of change in relation to the base material.

Unlike the game, “Long, Long Time” shows the cause of the end of the story of the two. In addition to being elderly, Frank develops a specific disease that exists in real life, and this motivates him to take his own life with an overdose of medicine. even healthy, Bill makes the same decision as her husband and dies. In the game, Bill stay alive after Joel and Ellie pass through his city.

According to information from Screen Rantit can be said as Frank had bad Parkinson’swhich is a central nervous system disorder responsible for affecting movement – and causes tremors in many cases.

At the end of “Long, Long Time,” Frank appears shaking, using a wheelchair for not being able to walk and even insomnia. Including, the character even spoke about how there was no cure for his disease before the pandemic that ended the world.

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