warning this article contains spoilers for the last of us episode 3 if youve yet to catch up with the show turn back nowthe last of us episode 3 is the first episode in the hbo adaptations run so far that deviates significantly from the source material despite its big changes though stars nick offerman and murray bartlett arent fazed by the thought of potential backlashfor starters the actors who star as bill and frank in the latest installment confess to being bolstered by the fact that neil druckmann who wrote the original naughty dog game is behind the series you have the god of the game and then theyre like is that enough get me the chornobyl guy offerman joked to gamesradar and other media noting coshowrunner craig mazins involvement so if that you know doesnt do the trick i apologizei think its generally known that gamers are a particularly passionate group but you know were lucky enough to work on lots of things sometimes theyre based on true stories sometimes theyre based on games youre always going to piss somebody off he continuedwhile episode 3 opens on joel pedro pascal and ellie bella ramsey as they continue their journey west long long time then jumps back to the beginnings of the apocalypse in 2003 and sees bill offerman turn his evacuated town into a selfsustainable oneman safe zone one day though his isolated existence is interrupted by a man named frank bartlett and the pair wind up spending the next 20 years in a happy romantic relationshipin the game players never actually meet frank and we learn later on that he had actually left bill a little while earlier due to the latters controlling ways and allconsuming conspiracy theories during his travels to boston he was bitten by clickers and holed up in a nearby abandoned house before hanging himself so as not to succumb to the cordyceps brain infectionimage credit hbotheres a great bertolt brecht quote that ill clumsily paraphrase but its like if youre not pissing off 30 of your audience then its not art so i mean anybody who makes anything like this theyre going to take the original material and tweak it in this case the actual creator is one of the adapters so you know you dont get much better credit than that offerman went on but you have to understand theyre going to do it with love you know the finale of game of thrones that was incredibly divisive we have to understand that these people did their damnedest to give us a beautiful ending and finale some people found it satisfying some people didnt but i mean its all human effort and so i hope that the gamers will understand that this is made with love and reverence i could make a sandwich that nine of you would love but one of you would not think that mustard should go with pickles you knowhaving spoken to craig and neil about