WEBVTT - HBO's The Last of Us Premiere 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.520 Warning, this podcast contains spoilers for the premiere of HBO's 0:00:04.240 --> 0:00:23.440 The Last of Us. Hello, my name is Jason Concepcion 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:27.320 and I'm Rosy Night, and welcome to X Revision, the 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:36.000 Crooked Media podcast where we dive be to your favorite shows, comics, 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:37.120 and pop culture. 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:40.760 In this episode previously and we're going to be digging 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:44.240 into that wild Mandalorian season three trailer, the Baby's Back, 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.760 the Baby's Bay, Baby's Back, And in the airlock we're 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.160 going to be talking about that unreal premiere of HBO's 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.320 The Last of Us, which I just cannot wait to 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:54.440 talk about because it look. 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:57.120 I can't wait, it was so good. And of course 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:58.920 this is an all at card podcast. And if you 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.040 want to jump around and just pick the little bits 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.800 you like, check the show notes and the timestamps for 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:05.840 the topics that we talk about and where they are 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.920 coming up. Let's get into that Mandalorian trailer in the 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:15.880 previous sound first up, Okay, Mandalorian season three trailer debuted 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:21.640 during Dallas Cowboys versus Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who which is 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:25.160 why I tuned in also to see Tom Brady get stomped. 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:29.640 But man looks great, not a lot of new stuff 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:34.119 from compared to the trailer that had been out there, 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:36.800 but really really fun. Looks great. 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.959 The baby is back, The baby's back. Lots of vines, 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:42.200 Mary Laurians. 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.880 Here is some just like in no order, some things 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.240 that popped out to me, grief, cargo, the come up continues. 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:50.840 He looks great. 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:53.640 I love call Weathers. I love to see it every day. 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.520 No one has looked more delighted to be in a 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.440 role than Carl, Like every time I watch him, you 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:03.760 can see him being like, can you believe this is 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:04.240 this great? 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.080 Yeah? I love it. This is suer great. Hopefully he'll 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:08.400 be directing some more episodes. 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:12.320 Yeah, the robes, like the fact that he seems to 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:17.840 be in control of a significant power structure now is 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:18.560 really cool. 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:20.960 That is great. 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:21.640 Yeah. 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:24.840 Also the armorer was that like flashbacks, are they going 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:26.560 to be a major role again? I'm hoping that it's 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.680 the latter, But it's really interesting. It's weird to say, oh, 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.280 a lot of Mandalorians, because like there really aren't a 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:36.600 lot of them, but yeah, we see that dinn is 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:42.120 basically he's in a position where he's trying to reimagine 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:46.240 what the Mandalorians can be outside of progressive side of 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.760 death like something. And he's got to, you know, go 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.520 back to Mandalaw because he took off his took off 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:53.760 his mask so he could go on the baby. Yeah, 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:55.960 you know, so it will be very interesting to see 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.239 for me. I love to see some weird alien races. 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.480 So we had I have seen the a Kawakian monkey 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:06.480 lizard aka Silatious Crumb. It wasn't Silatious Crumb probably, but 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:11.040 I yelled Silatious be crumb. Uh. And then obviously I 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.560 know in our discord people are like really excited, like 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.440 is that Babu Frick? Is it Babu Frick? Well, there's 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:20.080 two of them, but at least it's an Anzilin I 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.760 believe is what they're called. So I love Babu Frick. 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.080 I'm happy to see it. I love to see some 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:31.000 weird alien creatures me too. Also, I'm very interested. You 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.240 know you talked about let's talk about like Anakin and 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:37.160 Order sixty six and also like temple. 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:44.720 Uh we okay, so that's probably a battle droid that's 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:50.000 cutting open the door. That said, I'm just going off 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.440 of the color of the laser that appears to be 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.880 cutting the door open. That's ITID I do wonder if 0:03:55.880 --> 0:04:00.960 we're going to see a de aged Anakin doing a 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:05.160 lot of murder stuff, And it feels like to put 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.880 that in the trailer sets up. We're gonna let you 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.640 know how baby Yoda escaped. Of course, yeah, they know 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:12.680 we're gonna tell you how. 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.120 They know what that evokes when they put that in 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:19.320 the trailer. It evokes horror and terror. And yeah, well 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.960 you know, Hayden's back now, so we could see it. 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:23.800 You know, we we saw what they did with Luke, 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:25.600 it would be much easier to do it with Hayden. 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.400 And yeah, I'm I'm very excited. I love this show. 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.680 I love the baby, you know, I love Patro. I'm 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:33.800 so happy things are going so well for him right now. 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:39.800 Like back where did share the trailer? I was just thinking, like, 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:42.880 good for him. I was like, coming off the back 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.560 of like one of the best reviews, well, the best 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:49.000 reviewed live action video game adaptation ever. 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.159 We'll get it. Yeah, yeah, get okay, Actually, let's just 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.240 do that up. Next to the premiere of HBOS Last Us, 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:12.600 we're stepping out of the airlock and into the broken 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:16.680 down streets of Boston, looking better than ever, if you 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:20.159 ask me to talk about the premiere of HBO Max 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:24.320 Is the Last of Us adaptation created by Craig Mason 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:30.159 and Naughty dogg ep Neil Druckman, starring Pedro Pascal as Joel, 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:35.159 Bella Ramsay as Ellie and A Turf as Tess, Gabriel 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:39.400 Luna as Tommy, and more people that we haven't really 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:41.960 seen yet. Let's talk about this first. You mentioned it 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:46.000 in the previously on there's been you know, the kind 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:49.479 of tagline for this, or at least the media narrative 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:53.360 is here is the video game adaptation that has broken 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.080 the curse. Now, some have said, well what about. 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.360 So so I think the thing is to say animated, 0:05:58.440 --> 0:05:59.360 because like we've had. 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:04.760 All K live action live action right right, and and honestly, 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.920 that's that is a big deal, because when you're talking 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:14.000 about something like Arcane, it's I'm not I'm not trying 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:17.719 to undercut how cool it was and how legitimately equality 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:20.039 and great it was. Even if like you're like me, 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:21.840 you're not a League of Legends person, it was great. 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:29.080 You're still talking about a computer generated visual medium to 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.600 another computer generated visual medium. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:33.640 I was gonna say, the medium is a similar. So 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.120 it feels the cousins. 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:41.040 I like that this is a completely different animal, and 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:45.360 I was blown away. I was it to me, it 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.360 was a lot like the House of the Dragon adaptation, 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.359 in which we know a lot of the story. If 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.520 you played the games, but both one and two you 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:57.600 know where this goes. People have replayed the games. There's DLC, 0:06:57.680 --> 0:06:59.640 so people have played the games multiple times and for 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:05.240 good reason. But this adaptation, it's not just like, you know, 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:11.360 making the parts that wouldn't work as a television narrative work. 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:16.680 It's that they everything is really really additive and like 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:20.280 House to the Dragon, even if you know the story, 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.160 there's a ton of surprises there for you. 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.800 Yeah, I think that's really a great point. I'd say definitely. 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.600 How so the Dragon comes to mind. Also, it reminds 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.560 me kind of what they did with this Star Wars 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:32.440 animated shows, where you're meeting these characters, but you're getting 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.960 these huge moments of context and spending much more time 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:40.120 with them. And I think, especially as we go in 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:44.000 to the later episodes, that is going to be where 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.720 this show really shines. But I thought the first episode 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:50.440 was so brilliant. I mean, we've talked about that cold 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:54.240 open in the game, you know, quite extensively, and to 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.000 be able to bring that to life here and make 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.760 it even more heart wrenching even when you are not 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:01.800 in control. Oh, which was our biggest question is how 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:05.480 does this story feel when you are not an active 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.680 part of it? And you know what still feels as 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.600 moving and engaging and exciting as ever. 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:15.080 Okay, let's get into the recap. Episode one, when You're 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:18.239 Lost in the Darkness, written by Craig Mason and Neil Druckman, 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:23.080 directed by Craig Mason. We open in nineteen sixty eight 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.000 on a talk show kind of like a fictional version 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:30.880 of firing Line. There's a host. He's talking to a 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:35.280 pair of intellectuals about a parent, you know, pandemic threats, 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:39.040 epidemiological threats, the kind of things that keep them up 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:44.199 at night. One of them mentions, hey, commercial travels, is 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.640 this really dangerous amplifying effect. You know, bacteria virus can 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:49.280 be in Kenya and then it can be in Chicago, 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:51.400 and it can go around the world very quickly. And 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:53.360 the other one is a much more interesting and seemingly 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:57.160 out of the box concern, which is fung guy. Unlike 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.480 viral or bacterial infections. Fun guy, he said, as can 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:07.120 actually hijack the nervous system, and he uses LSD as 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:11.520 an example, which the ergot fungus, which is the kind 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:16.000 of like a natural basis for lysergic acid, which many 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:22.640 surmise has caused like various mass freakouts in medieval times. 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.400 I don't know if anybody's ever looked into this, but 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:28.840 there's like, you know, there's these various like dancing plagues 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:35.120 where like an entire village in medieval like Germany, just 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:39.280 like flip shared hysteria. So there's a lot of there's 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:43.360 a lot of subposition that that ergot fungus caused that. 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:47.079 And then he mentions these very specific funguses that attack 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:51.199 ants and also wasps that hijack their their brains and 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:55.640 basically turned them into puppets. And then he says, hey, yeah, obviously, 0:09:55.679 --> 0:10:01.680 like fungui can't survive temperatures at the the internal temperature 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.480 of the human body and hotter. But what if the 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.240 work got hotter. And of course we know that the 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.319 world will get hotter as we are living through it 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.920 right now. And Rosie I was really struck by the 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.160 decision to go in nineteen sixty eight, because it was 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:20.880 really that was the kind of like consensus, the mass 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:27.400 American consensus, worst year in American history before any of 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:32.680 the years that have happened in our recent lifetimes. You know, 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:37.600 like you had obviously Vietnam and the tet Offensive, and 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:41.079 that was going terribly opening American's eyes to how were 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.800 they were not going to win that war? Not to 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.520 mention the images of violence Street, you know, just like 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:50.640 beamed into American households every single night. Martin Luther King 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:54.640 was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated that year. 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.920 There are riots that ensued. There was the Democratic National Convention, 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.520 which turned into a police riot as the police just 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.760 like viciously beat down protesters in full view of cameras. 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:10.520 Prague Spring. It was a really really chaotic and crazy year, 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.719 and I think it makes sense that they would It's 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.920 such a small detail, but really cool that they set 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:18.960 that talk show in that year. 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:20.960 No, I love that. I think this is such a 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:25.400 great expositionary opening where you have these brilliant performances and 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.640 it feels very chernobyl, it feels very on the nose. 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:32.680 There's like a tiny liess and I absolutely love the 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:36.640 way that you start with the first intellectual who in 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.720 our world he was right because guess what we lived 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.280 through COVID and this the reason that it spread so 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.440 fast was very much to do with commercial travel. So 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.640 you have that little nod without it feeling out of 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:51.360 this world. But then you get to listen to somebody 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:56.280 basically explain how the corterceps will work in a way 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.040 that doesn't feel like an exposition dump later on. And 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.520 I love the way that the beginning when he says fungi, 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.280 people are laughing in the audience, but by the end 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:06.560 when he makes the point about global warming and what 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:11.439 if the world got hot, everyone just absolutely goes silent. 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:13.679 And the talk show says to him, you know, well, 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:15.680 what would happen if all of that happens? And he 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:19.600 just looks him and he says, will we lose? And 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:23.800 you know, that's what we know, and we should mention. 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.160 I feel like I should mention. This is nineteen sixty 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:32.160 eight fictional nineteen sixty eight, the first like official Exxon 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:42.320 funded internal studies about what would happen when petroleum you know, 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:46.040 byproducts are ejected hydrocarbon biproducts are rejected to the atmosphere 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.880 at a mass rate. Appeared in nineteen seventy seven. Their 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.480 internal documents where they basically were like, oh yeah, we're 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.280 going to get global warming like it predicted, and it 0:12:54.320 --> 0:13:01.160 was disbelievably surrealfically correct, Like those people have been looking 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.720 at those studies again and they just knew and they 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.880 did it anyway. Yeah, so that was only nine years 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:11.280 in fictional world. After this, we open on Austin, Texas, 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:14.040 two thousand and three, and here comes our cold opens. 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.760 I'm sure fans of the video game now are like 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.720 leaning in as soon as we go here. We meet Sarah, 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:24.200 a teenager. She wakes up her dad, Joel. It is 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.959 Joel's birthday. Sarah's making him breakfast because it's her birthday. 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:32.680 We get this wonderful feel for their relationship in which 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:36.880 Joel obviously the bread winner. You can tell he takes 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:38.559 a lot of pride and feels a lot of pressure 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:43.320 in providing for you know, this this family unit that 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:46.480 they have here, but you can also tell that Sarah 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:51.240 is taking care of him in a very particular emotional 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:55.520 way and these kind of small moments and it's a 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.800 really wonderful acted scene he's thirty six, which ages up Joel. 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:00.480 I think a little bit from them, Yeah, it does. 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:02.960 And also like, I really just want to shower out 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.640 Nico Parker here, who plays Sarah. 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:07.640 I'm like, man, I'm sad. 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:12.800 She is so brilliant and they found all these little ways, 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.960 from the T shirt she wears that's from the game, 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.240 to the way they light her, especially once you get 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:20.920 into the car where there are these uncanny moments where 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.320 you feel like you're in the game just visually. But 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.280 she's so wonderful. I love this moment where it's kind 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.040 of this Joel. Yeah, he's the breadwinner, he goes to work, 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:33.160 but really Sarah is taking care of herself. There's this 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.240 great moment when she's cooking him breakfast where he's like, 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.200 have you done your homework? And she just gives the 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:39.880 scathing look. 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.840 He's like, what was it? A fractions? 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.240 And she's just looking at him like, you know, I've like, 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.520 you don't even ask me this stuff because that's not 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.720 your perview, Like you got to work till ten pm 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:52.240 every night and you pay the rent and I make 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.520 sure things around here get done, and it's that's those 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:56.960 have such great chemistry. 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.360 That's a good call. It. It reminded me. It really 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.480 resonated with me because I think, you know, my mom, 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.920 with the help of our grandma, really raised me and 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:10.720 my brother. And I was when it became clear that 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.640 she didn't need to be like are you doing your homework? 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:15.560 She just like checked out of it because it was 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:19.040 like not it was not gonna be a you know, 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.720 a big priority in terms of like the things that 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:23.400 she needed to do on a day to day level. 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.560 What like I can't remember. I think she stopped looking 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.360 at my report card, like in the fourth grade. She's like, Okay, 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:32.320 got it, I'm gonna I'm gonna go to work now. 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:38.800 Tommy arrives. Uncle Tommy arrives. Tommy a desert stored veteran. 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:40.720 It's clear from this is a little bit of a 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.320 fuck up. He works for Joel. Joel is keeping him 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.320 employed via his contracting business. 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:46.760 I mean it was also like a little bit late. 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:47.400 He missed the. 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:52.480 Brass it's the birthday bread like and also like Joel 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:54.400 has like a time crunch. He needs to get out 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.000 like at a certain time so that he gets felt 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.120 time with Sarah. And here's Tommy fucking it up again. 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:03.000 And as they're getting ready to head out, there's a 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:06.040 news report on the radio, not a lot. It doesn't 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:11.320 really mention anything other than the unressd in Jakarta and 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:17.320 American citizens are being urged to leave, suggesting that whatever's 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:19.240 happening is happening around the world. 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.640 Yeah, and I love this. There's a great moment here, 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.520 another great little bit of character building where Tommy and 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.720 Joel try and work out where Jakarta is and they 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:30.760 both just have no idea and I little least. Yeah, 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:33.520 I love the way that that shows, like this smallness 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.120 of their life and before it has to expand into 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:40.600 this kind of huge, epic kind of adventure of going 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:43.200 across the country in this a totally new way. But 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:47.560 of course Sarah knows, because Sarah is the students. Sarah, 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:48.600 it's so good. 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:50.880 This is how you do exposition. This is how you 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:54.000 do character building in a way that doesn't feel like, oh, 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.479 you're just telling me how these people are. 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.560 Even a lot of dialogue, Like there's actually still a 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.080 lot of and a lot of like eating and quietness 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.800 and Tommy's putting something in. It doesn't feel like you're 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:11.160 constantly being bombarded by prestige TV exposition. It very much 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.320 feels like you're in the game. And something else that 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.720 kind of blew my mind I wasn't expecting was the 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:18.639 use of the handheld camera, which is such a huge 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.920 part of the game and the visuals of the game. 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.240 Is that feeling of that shaky camp And as soon 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.320 as we kind of follow Sarah up the stairs, we 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:29.199 really get into that and you feel like you're in 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.320 the game and you're controlling that character. 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:37.360 So Joel and Tommy head out to Tommy's truck. Sarah 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:41.640 goes up to her dad's dresser. She gets a little 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.520 bit of money out there. Maybe if you haven't played 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.280 the game, you know, like Sarah, you wrap scallion, it 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:51.440 takes a little bit money, but also takes his broken watch, 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:54.440 a great recreation of the watch from the game, a 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.639 kind of field watch style watch, military style watch. And 0:17:57.680 --> 0:17:59.960 then also and I thought it was like a wonderful 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.160 artistic flourish, she takes out his folding knife, which has 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:08.240 this wonderful engravement of like horses running on the on 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:13.840 the blade. You know, something that we will game players 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:17.600 will know from the second from the sequel is, you know, 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:22.320 the addition of horses and she just kind of sits 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:25.040 with it and considers it for a little while, and 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:28.240 it feels like this wonderful, like almost magical moment. 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:30.800 Yeah, it's that feeling as when you're a kid, you know. 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:34.120 She runs her finger down the blade, like she's perceiving 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:38.280 the knife and understanding in that moment, like everything's scary 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:40.800 about it, everything about the danger of what it can do, 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:44.200 but also the beauty. And it's just such a good 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:47.520 childhood moment. And it also very much feels once again 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:49.919 like you're in the game and you've picked something up 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:51.679 out of the drawer and you're looking at it, and 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:55.960 she kind of gets distracted by the knife and is 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.480 just staring at it until Joel starts bibbing the horn. 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:00.880 Yeah, you kind of get that. 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.720 Whoa she and she breaks out of her revery, and 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:05.119 it's just a really great moment. 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.360 Yeah, it just is really really cool. So Sarah comes 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:12.199 out and we meet the next door neighbors, an elderly 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:17.600 woman named Connie, who seems like she clearly can't move 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:21.760 on her own and is probably, you know, it's certainly 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:24.440 suggested by what you see in the kind of throws 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:29.200 of like dementia or something of that sort, and her 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:32.680 son Buddy Garrity from Friday Night Lights, who we all love. 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:35.960 They it's very clear that they are lonely. They invite 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:39.560 Sarah over that night to come just like hang out. Joel, 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:43.640 you know, is lightly teasing her about it, and it's 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.160 very clear that like neither of them want to spend 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:49.479 any time over there, but also like Sarah through that, 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:55.040 and it's a wonderful performance. Again, lets you understand what 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:57.760 a warm and generous person. Yes, she doesn't want to go, but. 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:00.920 Yeah, she's hung out with them, She's kept them buy 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:04.960 you know, she's kept them company, but she doesn't want 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:09.240 to do it. Neither does Joel. I really feel for 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:14.920 anyone watching this show who didn't know where this was going, 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:18.560 because their report is such a brilliant fake out and 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:20.959 they're so wonderful together. 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:24.880 Later in school, Sarah is sitting in English class when 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:29.200 she notices, because of the reflection from a student's bracelet, 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:32.479 that he's got a tremor. 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:35.560 Storytelling just really, don't do a seizure, you don't do 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:37.960 anything again. It adds I love that use of the 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:41.440 word magical that you say, because it really is this 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:45.520 kind of magical realism that limin or space between, like 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:49.280 is everything normal or is something huge about to change? 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:51.560 It captures that feeling when you're a kid of like 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:55.359 the the light in her face in class and I'm like, 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:57.320 is it someone she's got a crush on is trying 0:20:57.359 --> 0:21:00.359 to communicate with her or something? And then I just see, well, 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:02.800 it's like it's just a little trauma. They didn't go 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:06.760 all out, and it's just that Sarah is beginning to 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:11.000 notice that things are something is wrong right. 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:14.320 And then as she as she leaves school and goes 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:18.480 to get the watch fixed, here again is another hint 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:21.960 of something big about to change. There are police cars 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:29.240 racing around, and the repairman's wife comes out and basically 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:33.080 shoes Sarah out of the shop. After only a few minutes. 0:21:33.119 --> 0:21:36.199 It's like three o'clock. They close at seven. She's like, no, no, no, 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:38.920 we're shutting down. She clearly seems panicked, but in a 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:42.159 way where she doesn't want to alarm Sarah. Luckily, the 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:45.800 repairman has finished his work and she just tells Sarah, 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:50.200 go home, go home, Go home, Go home. Sarah ends 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:52.600 up at the neighbors. Now as she's going to the 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:55.359 neighbors there's military jets that kind of do a quick 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:57.959 boom overhead, which, depending on what part of the country 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:01.760 you live in, is maybe not a strange site, but 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:05.400 you know, these kind of like clues are It was. 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:08.640 Definitely I was definitely catching some jokes about that they do. Again. 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:10.280 They do such a good job this kind of walking 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:13.280 through the suburbs with these huge jets booming. But as 0:22:13.320 --> 0:22:15.520 someone who has lived the last seven years in like 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:18.520 the South Bay of LA, that's just my everyday life 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:22.120 helicopter jet, I was like, I will never know when 0:22:22.160 --> 0:22:24.520 the zombie apocalypse is coming because it will just sound 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:27.119 like normal. I'll just be like, oh, it's they're right again. 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:29.919 Yeah, even in La proper up where I am, you know, 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:35.919 where the entire county is nestled between several huge military 0:22:35.920 --> 0:22:38.600 bases and there is constant traffic over so again we 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:40.159 would not probably know I. 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:44.520 Would, but Sarah knows. And again I love, I really 0:22:44.560 --> 0:22:46.639 love you know. What I thought was so cool. I 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:48.959 think a lot of times in movies, if you see 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:52.479 a singular person, especially a child, and they're walking and 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:56.200 above them are these kind of military jets that feels 0:22:56.200 --> 0:22:59.919 almost like a triumphant top gun esque victory moment, you know, 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:03.879