Ep. 18 "The Last of Us Part II: The Second One" (w/ Connor Marsh)

Well, we’re FINALLY doing it. We’re joined once again by friend and show composer Connor Marsh (he/him) to tackle one of the biggest games of 2020: Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part II  for the Playstation 4.

(A quick note on **SPOILERS**: This is one of those games that are impossible to talk about without going deep into the plot, so please note that we will be fully discussing spoilers from 15:45 onward.)

From there, join us as we dive DEEP into discussing this timely & divisive masterpiece of a game, as we take a look at how this game handles its groundbreaking queer relationship between protagonists Ellie and Dina, trans representation in the game, conversations on queerness and religion, and of course, a look at its broader themes of cyclical violence, revenge, and all that juicy, heady stuff Neil Druckmann’s selling to us gays.

We’ve known since the inception of this show that this would be a huge, daunting game to cover, but we ended up, as always, having a blast recording it! (It helped that we all smoked a little **** before talking about this very sad game). Hope y’all enjoy it too!

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Intro and outro music by (this week's guest!) Connor Marsh (@connorjmarshmallow)

Show art by Nick Adams (@stickartams)

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MUSIC THIS WEEK:
"The Last Of Us Part II" by Gustavo Santaolalla & Mac Quayle
"Longing (Redemption)" by Gustavo Santaolalla & Mac Quayle

Read Riley MacLeod's Kotaku editorial on TLOU2's trans representation, which we quote a few times in this episode. (We also misattributed this article to The Verge a couple of times. Our bad!)