In casting Offerman (who subverted his best-known Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreation persona in 2020's Devs) and Bartlett (who's seen his own career soar since an Emmy-winning, unquestionably fantastic turn in Season 1 of The White Lotus), the show puts its most tender story yet in the hands of stars who have proven to be capable and here deliver emotionally-wrought work that thoroughly builds both characters over the course of an hour or so.
The episode eventually reverts back to Joel and Ellie, but there's no mistaking: this super-sized episode is a showcase for Bill and Frank. Things will never be the same for either of them.
A few years later he meets the charismatic and charming Frank (Murray Bartlett), who quite literally stumbles into his life. From there, we meet up with gruff survivalist Bill ( Nick Offerman), who learns that all his prepping and conspiracy theorizing has actually paid off. What seems to be another episode of the duo hitting the road then veers when Joel and Ellie find a place where 20 years ago much blood was spilled, Mazin and Moar take the opportunity to flash back to that spot 20 years ago, when the outbreak first began. They're continuing down the road, unwilling to talk about anything further. Written by Mazin and directed by TV veteran Peter Moar (who's worked on Daredevil, The Umbrella Academy and did all of the underrated 2021 limited series It's a Sin), "Long Long Time" opens with our leads in a precarious emotional situation just after Tess' death at the the end of Episode 2. The Last of Us isn't just a story about a deadly pandemic, or zombie-adjacent creatures it's about the human relationships that came before and those that emerged in the aftermath. Through three episodes of varying perspectives-starting in 2003 with Joel's late daughter, taking us out to an Indonesian scientist for the Episode 2 cold open, and veering into a touching self-contained story for the majority of Episode 3- on top of the present-day storyline following Joel and Ellie, we now seem to have a real taste of what co-creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann are trying to do. Sorry, just wiping away a few tears left from the end of "Long Long Time," the third episode of HBO's new Sunday night hit, The Last of Us. The following story contains spoilers for The Last of Us Season 1 Episode 3.
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