*The Last of Us 1x07* is still GAY and SAD...

[@marissa3612]

The Lin-Manuel Miranda impression was terrifyingly good lmao

[@PinkPopcast]

Right!? Lol it’s annoying but I can’t get mad when he does it because it’s lowkey annoyingly accurate 😅

[@filmfangirls9163]

It was so good!!

[@AbacusAxolotyl]

Gay and sad…you just described the first 25 years of my life 😂

[@PinkPopcast]

😂😂😂 same… actually beyond that

[@Jeneri1]

Sorry to hear that 🥺 not the gay part, obviously 😊🌈

[@neveerland]

hope year 26 brings you gayness in all its meanings buddy

[@iliana7646]

Singing “take on me” and then realizing 80s songs means trouble 😢😢😢 thanks for the reaction. You guys rock

[@PinkPopcast]

🥹🥹

[@Eggsther]

Those who know the second game: *emotional damages intensifies*

[@lizzyrank5405]

Oh fuck😢

[@jennifermc1221]

It's episodes like Riley's, and Bill and Frank's where I'm glad we don't see the end. We're left with a bittersweet moment and the show trusts us enough to put together the pieces and not be more interested in shock value.

[@Cr0ut0n]

Yeah I was so grateful for that!

[@PinkPopcast]

Yea it’s respectful

[@JazzyB9481]

This is why I love the show and also why I had to stop watching The Walking Dead. I don't mind the sadness but the gore in the show was just too much.

[@maryjaneberrys]

Storm Reid actually just came to my university last week for a talk! she was one of the most genuinely kind/humble/good people ive ever met :) she said she’s very intentional about the roles she chooses and riley was one of her favorites because she got to tell the story of a queer woman of color. someone also asked her what it was like working with bella ramsey, and she said she has a heart of gold and is extremely talented

[@PinkPopcast]

Awe that’s so awesome!! Love them both 🥰🥰🥰

[@Montcoshire]

I just realized Reilly saved Ellie’s life. Ellie was ready to give up but Reilly said “we just keep going”. Ellie will never give up; that’s what she learned from Reilly.

[@wtimmins]

They had 5 seconds of pure happiness. 5. Fucking. Seconds.

[@PinkPopcast]

😭😭😭

[@airora_aerial]

Unfortunately we can piece together what happened to Riley already. Ellie told Joel that it wasn't her first time to shoot someone (after the incident in Kansas City where she had to shoot the man attacking Joel). And we know she hadn't held a gun before the one Riley showed her... This implies she had to use the gun on Riley as Riley started to turn first, sadly.

[@PinkPopcast]

Yea we figured that out later

[@Bookworm8793]

@@PinkPopcast Also in the first episode when she and Marlene talk, they refer to Riley in the past tense. That, coupled with Ellie lying to Tess about being alone in the mall, makes it pretty clear Riley didn't make it.

[@MaureenLongoriaTheOneAndOnly]

@@Bookworm8793 as well, that’s the same outfit that Ellie was wearing when we first meet her, and she only had the second pun book with her, not the first which she left in her room

[@Sensationalhehe]

Getting gayer and sadder as we go 🥲

[@PinkPopcast]

Yepp 🥹

[@mandipandi303]

The mall scene made my Sapphic heart so happy until... well. When Riley says she's picturing Ellie in the lingerie, I was like, "Girl, your signals are not subtle." I'm glad we didn't have to watch Ellie kill Riley. Seeing her kill Riley would just be a repeat of Sam and Henry, and I don't want to watch that again. Joel taking Ellie's hand at the end was beautiful. He finally realized he didn't need to fight his parental feelings for her anymore, and he that they would fight for each other like family.

[@PinkPopcast]

It was so sweet and so sad!! 😂

[@Evija3000]

Do we know for sure that she killed Riley? Marlene showed up at some point.

[@mandipandi303]

@Evija3000 I don't want to give spoilers, but I think the previous episodes made it very clear what happened. Ellie told Marlene that she was exploring the mall alone in episode 1. Ellie cried and told Joel she had hurt someone else before, too in, I think episode 4.

[@citizenerased1439]

Now do you see what I meant when I commented that EVERY episode is “the sad episode”? 😂 This show keeps breaking us again and again and yet we keep coming back for more! We are all masochists over here.

[@PinkPopcast]

😂😂😭😭

[@wtimmins]

6 made me... less sad than some of the others?

[@aoife3052]

@@PinkPopcastjust wait for season 2! This season is “the happy season”

[@Blaskor314]

My belief: 1. Marlene knew Riley was Ellie's friend and was a bad influence 2. Marlene targeted Riley specifically for recruitment (she just came out of nowhere) 3. (possible) Marlene stationed Riley at the mall which was believed to be overrun with infected (effectively killing her?) 4. If three is true, Marlene then reassigned Riley to Atlanta to get her far away from Ellie Either way, I believe Marlene manipulated all these events to protect Ellie and it would have worked if (as Marlene said in Ep 1) Ellie would have stayed in FEDRA where she was safe.

[@wtimmins]

Ellie's cracked 'don't go' made me cry out loud. damn

[@lynnhettrick7588]

Yep, a medical person mentioned the same thing Benji did, that Joel would still be bleeding internally even if she sewed up the outside.

[@PinkPopcast]

Haha right!?

[@TdScar]

Ehh we just have to pretend like certain things just make sense even though they don’t 😂

[@lynnhettrick7588]

@@TdScar Especially because we want Joel to live. lol

[@TdScar]

@@lynnhettrick7588 exactly lol

[@kaleyrose47]

Loved this episode. We really got to see Ellie's backstory here, and how she's terrified of constantly losing people (her biggest fear as she told Sam in Ep 5 is ending up alone). She lost Riley, and now she's refusing to lose anyone else. Loved the references to previous episodes as well: -In Ep 3, when Joel and Ellie go to Cumberland Farms to grab Joel's stash, she sees the Mortal Combat game and says, "I had a friend who knew everything about this game."-we see them play it in the arcade here. -Ellie takes a swig of Joel's drink in Ep 6 and says "Yup, still gross.”-we see her try it for the first time with Riley. -In Ep 4, after Joel says he's sorry she had to hurt someone else and how hard it is for anyone's first time, Ellie cries a little and replies, "It wasn't my first time.", I think this means we can infer that Ellie ended up needing to kill Riley after she turned, which is so sad. Ellie and Joel hardly have any dialogue, but their expressions say so much. When Joel wrapped his fingers around hers to hold her hand, I cried. Their bond has become so strong and it is so sweet.

[@heywhatupitsash7389]

I spend most of this show convincing myself "and they were fine, and it's all fine and they lived a gay happy ever after, and no one got hurt, and this is totally not gonna go wrong" meanwhile the most horrific shit is going down and I'm out here with a pounding headache, slowly turning to dust, dehydrating from crying so much. I need to start stocking up on electrolytes

[@PinkPopcast]

Hahah you set yourself up to be disappointed 😭

[@thisishowitallends9321]

What is sadder than the Apocalypse? Being gay in Apocalypse 😅

[@PinkPopcast]

Porque no los dos? 😂😂

[@derangedpinke]

Especially because in this version of the apocalypse, the world as we know it ended in 2003. Nationwide gay marriage in the US was still over a decade away and only one state had legalized it by outbreak day. We don’t know what FEDRA’s attitudes toward queer rights are but I don’t have high hopes.

[@thisishowitallends9321]

@@derangedpinke I mean, they were trying to end it just recently, so it would be over for gay rights even if it was 2023 lol

[@tanat4731]

I loved the “Take On Me” concert given by Benji & Rizzo 😂 I’m surprised you guys didn’t recognize storm Reid from Euphoria like everyone else. It’s refreshing tho cause she’s in so many more amazing films. Still, I love you guys !

[@PinkPopcast]

Lol we still haven’t seen it

[@MeganTheLibrarian3]

Riley: "What do you call an alligator in a vest?" Benji (without hesitation): "An investigator." Me: "😳😲🤯😂

[@PinkPopcast]

Haha to be fair, there was a short pause but we cut for time 😂

[@MeganTheLibrarian3]

@@PinkPopcast Still impressed! 😄

[@queerlybelovdd]

riz manuel miranda over here😄 it was at this point in the show that i realized that our collective tears must be making the creators stronger. greater episode, mega ouch for the feels

[@PinkPopcast]

😂😂

[@sarahbottino1321]

I never noticed that one fucked up horse and now I can’t stop laughing

[@PinkPopcast]

😂😂

[@CloakedSchemer06]

I’m so glad they included this into the show! The whole “left behind” was actually only dlc to the first game so it’s good they gave Ellie’s backstory more in the show. Another great reaction to watch! Yeah I was also feeling dread the entire episode (even tho I know what happens in the game, they change stuff so I wasn’t sure what they were gonna keep) too. Thanks for watching this show even if it’s painful haha

[@beccazach]

LMAOO the Lin-Manuel Miranda verse sent me into OBRIT

[@PinkPopcast]

😂😂😂

[@misti-step]

okay but your lin impression is so good lmfaoo

[@PinkPopcast]

Right!? Lol it’s annoying but I can’t get mad when he does it because it’s lowkey annoyingly accurate 😅

[@Sensationalhehe]

I support the pinkpodcast fireflies musical lin manual is shaking in his high tops

[@PinkPopcast]

😂😂 thank you 🙏

[@Sensationalhehe]

@@PinkPopcast benji with the voice of mariah carey giving us angelic vocals while rizzo rizzes us up on a rap beat take my money kings 😭

[@cheryljones6654]

LMAO😂

[@annaanthony9707]

Riz-Manuel Miranda pleaseeeee lmaooo. Hey is Clue a reaction on the list??

[@PinkPopcast]

Totally!

[@neveerland]

maybe it's just cause this series is pretty dark or maybe it's because of other personal circumstances but you guys have seemed a bit more down recently. no matter what it is, i hope you are doing ok and that you don't burn yourselves out. it's ok to take breaks and stuff. all my love xx

[@JazzyB9481]

I noticed that too But like you said the show is pretty dark and it's pretty hard to joke around while watching this show like they normally do with other reactions

[@PinkPopcast]

Thanks! Of course rizzo has been dealing with a lot but we also watched the last 4 episodes in a row, so we got more into our feelings 🥲

[@JessieBee94]

Great episode. Poor Ellie can't catch a break. 2 more episodes and you're free from this traumatic season! Can't wait to watch it with you guys!

[@bunji_beans]

I've come to really look forward to your guys' reactions to this show! Rizzo and I cry at all the same parts lol This was the only part of the show that I hadn't seen the game version first of since it was a dlc. Still loved both versions!

[@PinkPopcast]

🥰🥰

[@lonely_viking6219]

Can't believe you guys got a Lin Manuel cameo! so cool!

[@PinkPopcast]

😂😂

[@seen636]

With tlou the pain and heartbreak is never ending…

[@PinkPopcast]

🥲

[@thatgirlinokc3975]

Savoring the sweet moments, knowing they will not last😢

[@PinkPopcast]

🥲

[@Nothing_Israel]

Dude’s song rhymed “fly” with “fly.” Skills.

[@PinkPopcast]

Thanks 🙌

[@MichaelAury]

Rizzo's Lin Manuel Miranda I need an hour of that

[@stephaniefrost4910]

5:53 not the Lin Manuel Miranda impression 💀💀 (the rhymes weren't half bad tho ngl!)

[@finn8628]

This is totally unrelated but I just saw rizzo get a drag makeover on an episode of drag race! It was season 9 episode 10 for anyone wondering.

[@bethstovell8608]

They filmed the mall in this episode at my neighborhood mall in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The mall was already being demolished so they used stores that were already mostly broken down.

[@the_nikster1]

the reason Marlene didn't allow Ellie to go to Atlanta was because it's already been hinted at from episode 1 that she knows Ellie is special. she says herself that she put Ellie in the Fedra military school when she was a baby to keep her safe, so she wouldn't risk her getting killed by sending her away to some other place.

[@tutumaina3332]

The timelines don't align. Marlene would only have known that Ellie was special after Ellie got bit and Marlene found her at the mall. That is long after she's been in Fedra school. At that point, all we know is that Marlene knows Ellie and was probably responsible for her at some point in her early childhood. So she's only refusing her to go because she's protecting her like a guardian would protect a child in their care, not that she thinks Ellie is "special" in any way.

[@the_nikster1]

@@tutumaina3332 both could be true at the same time. it's all based on assumption at this point.

[@Evija3000]

@@tutumaina3332 I agree. SPOILER, KIND OF. She was probably just protective of her because Ellie's mother was her friend. I don't think she could have known that Ellie would be special. If she knew that immune people existed, she might have had the tiniest curiosity how Ellie would turn out after the way she was born, but not enough certainty to actually test Ellie for immunity. If she was keeping Ellie safe from harm she was also keeping Ellie safe from ever getting bitten and finding out if she's immune. Considering how big a deal a cure is, I don't think she'd let Ellie spend like 20 years casually growing up if she had any level of certainty she could be immune. That time could be used studying her and researching a cure. I mean, it is possible she just wanted to protect Ellie from crazy doctors, but I think the other way is much more likely. Or maybe she weighed her tiny suspicion of Ellie possibly being special against her much greater responsibility of keeping the daughter of her friend safe and decided that the chance of her being immune is not big enough to break a promise and risk killing Ellie during testing.

[@tutumaina3332]

@Evija3000 This is what I was thinking in a more detailed breakdown. Thank you.

[@gracie6764]

im so happy i found your channel i feel like you guys are my friends now

[@PinkPopcast]

🥰🥰🥰

[@Bee4Reel]

The Lin Manuel impression took me outtttt 😂😂😂😂

[@hatred8862]

you two should watch anne with an e i just feel like you guys would enjoy it a lot. btw i love your guys reaction to this and i can't wait for you to react to episode 8 the story just gets better and better

[@TheFairyGoblin]

Oh my god YES! Benji your firefly song is EVERYTHING!!! When should I expect the full number?? 🤟❤️

[@HorrorGeek9]

Riley and Ellie broke my heart. Great reactions as always guys 💙🙌🏽

[@PinkPopcast]

Thank you!!

[@laistoews]

"i am tired of crying" Honey, you got a big storm coming

[@firelordoregano5632]

i was listening while working on something in another tab and the lin manuel miranda auditory jumpscare genuinely frightened me. i flinched.

[@PinkPopcast]

😂😂😂

[@lizzyivy3]

Bro I've had the worst day and this is something to look forward to so thanks a bunch!❤

[@PinkPopcast]

Glad we could help!

[@lynnhettrick7588]

6:02 I was just going to mention that R sounded like Lin Manuel! 😂

[@filmfangirls9163]

I do love the DLC and this was a cool way to incorporate it. I'm going back to work after a week off recovering from surgery. Thank you for being there!!

[@PinkPopcast]

Good luck at work, glad your doing well :)

[@filmfangirls9163]

@@PinkPopcast thank you so much!!

[@sararowe8358]

As if this episode did not make me feel enough, y'all had to bring up The Fox and the Hound

[@PinkPopcast]

Sorry 😅

[@indbtly_kendra]

I hadn’t planned on watching this show, but I ended up binge watching just to watch your reactions! This show has destroyed me emotionally. I feel like I’m on the verge of a panic attack every episode 😅

[@PinkPopcast]

Same here, it’ll be nice to have a break after this season😭😭

[@shannono9421]

So curious to get your first impressions of the next few characters

[@ZS-dr7bi]

Gay and Sad are my new favourite genres 😂

[@PinkPopcast]

😅😅

[@otakuleah]

Lol great reaction, I related a lot to how you guys were tense and I couldn’t help but to giggle at your reactions to Ellie stitching Joel even though I relate😂 Fun fact, this episode is based off of the DLC of the game called “Left behind” where you play as Ellie, I’m so glad they added it in for the show. Also I wanted to point out in the game just after Joel gets hurt, there was a time skip and you start playing as Ellie, I remember players freaking out wondering if Joel died, kinda like the previous episode cliffhanger made people freak out and wonder. Anyway I really loved what they did with this episode because I remember nearly crying from watching these kids breakdown and their lives fall apart when they nearly had a chance to be happy together, they keep doing this story justice😭

[@PinkPopcast]

Oh wow, they got everything with this show lol

[@emmettofswedeland]

This part came out as a DLC a while after the first game- "The Last of Us: Left Behind" and it's another episode where queer representation is woven into the full plot, instead of next to it, or only implied as it was in the game. After Bill and Frank, I knew they would make an canon-true episode of Ellie and Riley too, but still the happiness (right before the sadness) that I felt from watching this was all but euphoric. It's so fucking cool how well they succeeded with this, and how honestly they respected the game! I'm extatic that non-gamers get to partake in this universe!

[@fe-real]

Thanks for the heads up. I took a nap this afternoon so I can be awake at midnight 🫣🙈🤣

[@CMinorOp67]

13:25: “You’re such a square” That was my guess, too!😀👍

[@carlalorenaoliveirarosales6722]

What a high note Benji and Rizzo😅

[@PinkPopcast]

thanks 😂

[@TdScar]

Been enjoying y’all’s reaction to this!! 😊

[@kevinpetsky49]

I know I'm late here, but just want to point out that the initial mall lights lighting up scene has the lesbian flag colors and the arcade has the bi flag colors. Nice cinematography detail.

[@PinkPopcast]

Oh that’s awesome!

[@ProofOfGrace82]

Rizzo with the Lin Manuel Miranda impression 🤌🏻💋

[@blueuser9815]

Amazing video, as always❤

[@PinkPopcast]

Thank you 😊

[@myacooley4667]

OMG you guys should watch Daisy Jones and the Six. It was so good, and I'm actually obsessed with it.

[@cateiya95]

❤you guys!!

[@erikaboosh]

Hugs for Rizzo

[@Eggsther]

"maybe ellie will find love with someone else" Tlou 2: haha haha hahaa

[@pls-shanice]

love your reactions. Are you guys going to watch shadow and bone s2? I really loved it.

[@PinkPopcast]

Yepp :)

[@aoife3052]

“Gay and sad” is me in every way😂😂😂

[@PinkPopcast]

Same

[@jazzyjay3881]

Not you two singing take on me while I'm thinking about the context of take on me in the 2nd game (likely the 2nd season)

[@sadittarius]

the lin manuel miranda voice got me ngl 😅

[@HaIcyonic]

the fucking lin manuel miranda impression took me OUT oh my god

[@PinkPopcast]

😂😂

[@amby8719]

i love you guys, always making me laugh. that lin impression had me dying

[@PinkPopcast]

😂

[@Bee4Reel]

Carousel 🎠 not Ferris wheel 🎡 ✨🫣

[@PinkPopcast]

Lolol thanks

[@Thundernoob98]

I reallly wish they e fed it the same way the game DLC ended would bave been way more sad

[@PinkPopcast]

Lol we couldn’t take anymore

[@jenniferlarregui3315]

I was scared watching this whole episode. lol

[@poofybushway4229]

Love it

[@hayleyhellbound9513]

Completely random movie suggestion for you! Con Air (1997)

[@noeticwolf73]

Thank you. I thought the moaning was Joel but I think it was Rizzo.

[@PinkPopcast]

😅

[@giseledute]

Gay and sad? Is this for me? 👉🏻👈🏻

[@PinkPopcast]

It’s for all of us 😅

[@ElisaH_DarklyiShine]

is the PINK podcast going to watch Grease rise of The PINK ladies?

[@rafa4424]

Are y’all going to do new season of shadow and bones. It’s so fun and gay lol

[@filmfangirls9163]

They are!! And I'm so excited. I keep watching a Last of Us upload so that we get closer lol

[@remytherat2175]

BELLA THORNE 😭😭

[@KillingMachine56656]

Guys... this is EASY season... part 2 of the last of us is going to get so much darker/sad...

[@filmfangirls9163]

Dude if they go the direction of game 2 I am so not watching. I hate that game lol

[@PinkPopcast]

😭😭

[@MLEbug]

SERIOUS TRIGGER WARNING FOR EPISODE 8: aldut doing bad things to a child. PLEASE put a trigger warning at the beginning of your next episode! I wish they'd done so for the show. They didn't and it was bad!

[@SarahEve97]

Gays and lesbians😭

[@PinkPopcast]

😭😭

[@Jeneri1]

On the bright side: now the mall really is infected-free 🫠🧟‍♀️🚫

[@PinkPopcast]

🙃🙃