LOVE to see the growth in *The Last of Us Episode 4*!

[@shainewhite2781]

Ellie finding the beefcake magazine was hilarious! When she wakes why the page were stuck together, Joel felt he had an out of body experience. Lol!

[@RegularGamer392]

So cool to see Tommy's video game actor in this episode, apparently Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson make appearances too in later episodes!

[@cloud77ism]

I bet five bucks Ashley Johnson is Ellie's mom

[@theawesomeman9821]

Tommy's VA has a name, Jeffrey Pierce

[@Hockeyhobo89]

@@cloud77ismthe trailer already confronted that

[@TheEverwritten]

Troy Baker has BIG role and I am super stoked for it.

[@kilian-one-l]

@@Hockeyhobo89 confirmed*

[@Saphthings]

When Joel hits the car into the building and he frantically asks Ellie if she's hurt anywhere. He's thinking of Sarah. When the car accident broke her ankle. You can see him thinking, "omfg I finally started caring about someone and the same thing is gonna happen again..."

[@thomashiggins9320]

I actually work with a guy who has been through Kansas City, a lot. He said he absolutely believed people would get lost and turned around, because (apparently)getting through Kansas City *sucks* .

[@Saphthings]

That yelling for the mom scene is when I realized I would never survive a zombie apocalypse... I'd believe him and then get shived...

[@alanhilton7336caradventure]

This episode absolutely killed the bond between Joel and Ellie growing was lovely to see and the father and his son at the end was the icing on the cake.

[@AJ-dt3pz]

Actually, the two at the end were brothers, but I loved seeing them too.

[@alanhilton7336caradventure]

@@AJ-dt3pz oh yeah I remember now they are brother's.

[@eschiedler]

"Could be mercs." No, it's one lone, unstoppable merc with plot armor. Lol

[@joshritz7067]

It's called Beskar

[@AdoreYouInAshXI]

"I'm more of a tea drinker myself". Oh no VKunia. We had such a good thing going.

[@bludreem121]

"Acquired taste" is a euphemism for Stockholm Syndrome of the taste buds.

[@terryharrow3127]

The man with the white beard is Jeffery Pierce, who played Tommy in the game

[@victorstewart395]

Based on the pacing of the show so far, they introducing Henry and Sam here means only one thing...if you thought ep 3 was sad..ohh boy is the next ep going to destroy us all.

[@The1Music2MyEars]

I mean they put a spin on Bill and Frank, so I don't know, but might take it down a slightly different road. We'll see ;)

[@victorstewart395]

@@The1Music2MyEars Fair…we’ll see indeed..😎

[@Blazingstoke]

In Joel's defense, _nobody_ is quite sure how a siphon works. (The longstanding assumption was that the difference in atmospheric pressure kept the liquid flowing, but siphons have been proven to work in a vacuum too.) Also, mad props to Joel for making it up to the 33rd floor. I'm not quite his age yet and I'd have *died* somewhere in the teens.

[@Galiant2010]

That's not true. The liquid itself is the atmosphere, so to speak. It pulls itself through the tube because if it didn't keep pulling more it'd just leave a cavity of nothing at the end of the tube beneath the liquid. But gravity pulls the rest of the liquid down. And liquids always flow to the lowest point, so as long as the end point for a siphon is lower than the bottom of what you're siphoning from it'll keep pulling itself. You'd need to at least also have no gravity to be unable to siphon.

[@xAVErRvISCARRa]

One thing that i like of the show is the fact that you could see both sides of the situations. There are no agressors in the apocalipsis, there are no good or bad people in the last of us, there are only survivors and dead people. And that also happen in the game

[@afqwa423]

That is a false equivocation. The QZ survivors are definitely in the wrong. They ambushed Joel and Ellie first, probably with the intent to take their things if they could. Their leader doesn't warn nor lead her community away from the burrowing Cordyceps infestation under their feet because she knows doing that would divert resources from her manhunt. She probably is aware of her son's banditry as well and decides to rope Ellie and Joel into her own internal politics anyway by making them additional targets for a manhunt. (I don't know whether it's out of a selfish desire to get revenge against them specifically or as a means to an end to get the other guy.) She is a tyrant and her people are bandits. Just because I understand their reasons doesn't make their reasons excuses. Joel and Ellie are 100% in the right here and were morally right to defend themselves. She also probably shot their only doctor and only considered sparing him because he _might_ be immediately useful. She's a Karen. And I empathize with Karens myself. I can really see it from their angle because I also remember what it was like to be a spoilt child who threw fits when they were denied a toy. I can put myself in other people's shoes just fine. But it doesn't make me _like_ them. If you had any real empathy for her, then that empathy should engender contempt and a desire to be a better person than her. She's absolutely 100% a terrible person.

[@TerryYelmene]

Bella as 'Ellie' and Pedro as 'Joel' are... special.... perfect.

[@nezfromhki]

Another note, I like the small moment where Ellie asks Joel "they're not FEDRA, they're not Fireflies, so who are they?" and Joel simply responds "People." It works in two ways: first of all to simply convey that Joel does not know nor care who they are, but it also highlights the idea that no matter what kind of labels you want to stick on your enemies, they're still people at the end of the day. I appreciate the lengths the show is going to humanize the "enemy."

[@afqwa423]

I kind of interpreted it negatively. People are still capable of banditry when it comes down to it. Joel has echoed this sentiment in the past episode and during the camping out. Infected don't come far out, but people could. I suppose that seems edgy, but "evil" as we understand it isn't some unique nor isolated cosmic incident. It's a banality of evil type of statement.

[@kylecasey7010]

I think you got the same message I did. Joel admitting to doing exactly what Bryan did was enough to convince me that it wasn’t about good and bad but people trying to survive.

[@afqwa423]

@@kylecasey7010 No, I'm saying people are indeed good or bad and that you can critique their behavior. You need to detach the concept of virtue from the harm of their actions. So when I say somebody is bad, I don't mean to say they're _innately_ bad, but my judgment I have of them is still there. And it is often to unrealistic to assume people will simply reform if you think of the right thing to say or reason with them. You should not mistake niceness for goodness. Do not allow charisma nor how much you like a person to sway your judgments or your critical thought. Being able to have a beer with, let's say, a fascist doesn't mean we are not political enemies even if he's nice to his family and friends in isolation of those political goals. Do not allow the desire to be civil to lead you to ignore other warning signs. The QZ leader in particular is just a bandit leader or warlord. She never thought of herself as such but the next episode confirms my initial low opinion of her. She's the villain of the story. She's just a change in management from the KC FEDRA regime. She's a vindicative Karen with too much power. And that here is the point. She always had it in her to be just as evil and to tread the same path as her former oppressors. People like her are a dime-a-dozen. They talk about justice but their actions and speech show they're only interested in power. I know her _reasons_ they just aren't very good reasons. And there actually does seem to be a very political message with her character. She _offers_ no real reform or better government than the previous regime. She uses he clout to basically chase Moby Dick instead of taking whichever actions were best for the QZ survivors. She ignored that her son was a bandit and that Joel was 100% morally in the right to kill him. She ignored that Henry wasn't an important priority, the Infected were. She kills former collaborators rather than offering a world where such collaboration is unnecessary. Where was her empathy to them? Rewatch the scene where she executes the doctor -- notice how impulsive and bratty she is about it. She never had good reasons to kill him. Empathy doesn't mean you need show her compassion. To the contrary, if you had any empathy, you would feel disgust at her actions. Your empathy should only relate to her because you remember what it was like to be a spoilt brat who was denied ice cream and be glad that you do not have to repeat her mistakes. She was no ruler nor statesman. And it was clear that while her brother didn't get "results," he would've been an infinitely better leader. On her account, all the KC survivors died. She's a bad person. They didn't die due to a strategic miscalculation. She said it herself, it was only ever about revenge. Her bodyguard was a stupid fool to have followed her.

[@kylecasey7010]

@@afqwa423 sorry but I was replying to Nez.

[@afqwa423]

@@kylecasey7010 Oh my mistake, I confused the two of you.

[@CezaryAkakios]

People that haven't seen Yellowjackets: "Geez, this woman seems a little too nice to be such a brutal leader. How can she do these things with such a calm demeanor and blank affect?" People that have seen Yellowjackets: "Oh F_ck yeah, Melanie Lynskey is perfect casting!"

[@blinkachu5275]

Hmm I kinda feel like she was the weakest casting in the show so far, she just doesn't have the gravitas of a leader, she doesn't feel like a person that could lead such hardened people Probably has to do with me seeing her as the character she was in Two and a Half Men maybe, idk, but to me her performance was the weakest so far in the show

[@Shad0w5carab]

@@blinkachu5275 I wonder if maybe her not being fully in control is deliberate. I always really enjoy ‘leaders’ that have kind of lost it and start making rash decisions to try to wrestle back control. Seems like Kathleen is pretty obsessed with Sam and Henry, perhaps whatever they’ve done to her and her people has her desperate. Or maybe I’m completely wrong 🤷‍♂️😂 Interested to see where they take the character

[@corabee923]

I like the casting, she comes across as unstable and paranoid to me but not in an over the top way. She's clearly on a witch hunt and making irrational decisions which put Joel and Ellie in a very dangerous position.

[@Saphthings]

@@blinkachu5275 That's exactly why I like it. It's different. Like Dolores Umbridge. Looks like a PTA mom who is super nice, but then she acts unhinged lol.

[@Blazingstoke]

Melanie's very first film role was a shy, soft-spoken, _real-life murderer._ And she did that at a younger age than Bella is in this show. I'll believe any villain she cares to play.

[@shroomdad2554]

Kathleen is also Beatrice from Over the Garden Wall!

[@moonman8450]

Kathleen is that soccer mom that gets a power trip when you give her a gun and still makes stupid decisions. I hate her already

[@NobleRabbit1337]

Every time you dish on Ohio, I'm gonna dish on Poland. I swear. At least you didn't call me out this time.

[@imthewolf1]

This was filmed up in different parts of Alberta Canada.

[@kylecasey7010]

You hit the nail on the head. These aren’t just NPCs, they are people placed in impossible situations and would we be any different in those circumstances? I bet not.

[@NoahBility]

Melanie Lynskey plays the woman you recognise from Two and a Half Men She's also in this incredible, and chilling, show called Yellowjackets that I highly recommend watching Season 2 is almost here, and I think it's the perfect time to binge season 1

[@ilikerice5208]

She’s great in lots, beautiful creatures, over the garden wall, I don’t feel at home in this world anymore etc. Shame she only got recognised for two and a half men

[@neils123]

YES YES YES - Yellowjackets is a must see!

[@sammylane21]

I recognized one of the actresses on here from DETROIT ROCK CITY and SWEET HOME ALABAMA.

[@CoffeeMatt10]

8:19 Melanie Lynskey, she was indeed in Two and a Half Men, but she wasn’t the neighbour, she was Charlie’s stalker, Rose. She always climbed up the balcony 😂

[@b1akn3ss93]

She was still a neighbour

[@Daniel123939]

She was Charlie’s neighbour though

[@darth856]

@@Daniel123939 yeah the joke was that Charlie slept with her once without knowing she was his neighbour, so after that he couldn't get rid of her.

[@Lord_Legolas_Greenleaf]

Tess told him: "Make things right." Remember in the last episode when she tells Joel: "Don't blame me for something that isn't my fault." She's not cargo anymore. Then when he answered the Scare Crow joke. Joel is an 'honorable man' - as best as he can be. After their talk about 'killing/hurting people' - he realized that he can't do this by himself as he almost died because of it. Also - he feels responsible for El having to do so. That was the bonding moment; everything after is just 'how much.' "We'll get through this." Then when she's climbing into the window: "Look around first. Ellie Godammit!" "I've been on both sides. We did what we needed to survive.' El: "Did you kill innocent people." He's not ready to confess to her. He calls her "little shit." He says: "Good night" to her. Then he asks her about 'hurting people.' He's ready to talk with her about it and we see it. He's also ready to try his best to help her cope with such an awful thing. Then the diarrhea joke!

[@ianbrown7235]

I would not be surprised if Arby's was one of the investors of this show

[@imthewolf1]

This was filmed up in different parts of Alberta Canada

[@natestadler2352]

The good old coffee debate. I personally love the smell, but I can't bring myself to drink it. Tastes like Burnt Shit, smells like heaven

[@joshuacampbell7493]

The girl who plays Kathleen is the same woman plays as Rose from Two and a Half Men.

[@chriscorvin5077]

Also Weeds

[@strikkmoez]

Tell me in the apocalypse you aren't gonna be scared as hecc of groups of ex-cops! Just imagine whole departments taking over towns and cities.

[@PhysicalMediaPreventsWea-bx1zm]

So funny to hear her describing all the locations as Ohio, New Jersey etc when another reactor (Popcorn In Bed) identified those same scenes as being in Canada! 😂

[@TwistedSisler]

I was so thrown off when I heard Tommy's voice actor speak at first because I thought it was actually Tommy for a second and I was like what the heck is Tommy doing here!? lol

[@johnortega4502]

Your hair looks great seeing you always brightens my day

[@alojr35]

Btw the last of us was shot in Canada I think.

[@corvettesplus4913]

As a car guy the one thing that got me was when they siphoned gas. After 20yrs pretty much all fuel will have went bad a long time ago lol

[@darth856]

That was addressed in the dialogue, Joel saying it was mostly water and that they had to keep doing that every hour. But of course, showing him doing it all the time would get boring.

[@crf122]

As a resident of Cheyenne Wyoming it was for to get a shoutout on this show. People don’t know we exist 😂

[@Maya_Ruinz]

Nothing better then a hot cup of coffee in the morning. ☕️😊

[@SaikaDeWinter]

Theyve done a real good job at showing everyone is shitty in this world. The ppl who attacked attack for sake of attacking yes. But Joel is so cold, he used to do what they did too. Hes just as bad as they are or can be 🥹

[@nickoftime5759]

Ooo when Ellie says it wasn’t her first time shooting someone…. I wonder if…. Riley???? 😮

[@sawyer33]

I hope part 2 is Joel marrying Vicky and raising Ellie as their daughter and living in Mexico.

[@scottls]

I have one HUGE complaint about this TLOU HBO adaption! THIS DRIVES ME CRAZY and that’s the fact that it is over too SOON! We have been SPOILED with full seasons of bingeable shows but one this good and the pushers knows they’ve got us hooked! We wait all week for one hour of pure GENIUS! It’s just not enough! Can’t wait till next year when I can watch the whole series in one sitting while waiting for the next episode of season 2 to come out!

[@williamflores7081]

Just watched episode 5! Can’t wait to see your reaction!

[@danielpeek4245]

11:34 That looks like Homelander.

[@KennyThisIsTheWay2024]

Hi Vicky I really enjoy your reaction to this episode I love the part where Ellie makes that joke and what looks like the magazine feels great to laugh right😆😁🥰❤

[@thefatman2780]

ABSOLUTELY ADORE YOU & YOUR CONTENT

[@frothyjazz7425]

You play through the entire game from the perspective of Joel. So yeah, the guys who ambushed you and are patrolling the city, are the aggressors.

[@moonman8450]

11:55 the fun guy?

[@taylorjohnson763]

the dude that played Bryan killed it.

[@luisortiz5880]

Agreed! The fact that just hearing his desperation was hard.

[@grenadecraig9619]

Poor S-10 🥺🥺

[@joeokabayashi8669]

No spoilers, but you know who those "boys" are and you can imagine who was her first kill.

[@jonathanross149]

This is not a crying episode

[@Sidistic_Atheist]

*I hope you're still playing the game!* Because at some point you're going to catch up to yourself with this TV series. And I wouldn't want the game to be spoilt for you. (If in fact, they stay, as true to the game story as possible) The game is an average, 22 Hours to obtain 100% completion.

[@EntertainmentFan11]

Those who are asking why she hasn't finished X-Men or Harry Potter yet, don't worry. She'll get to them when she can. These things take time, you know. Plus, she doesn't want her channel to get hit by copyright strikes, so editing her reactions for KZbin takes a little while. Edit: As soon as Ellie took out the joke book, I was like, "YES!!!" 2nd edit: Perry is actually played by Uncle Tommy's original actor, believe it or not, V. That's another OG from the game in this show. 3rd edit: Big infection spot. It can only mean one thing: A Bloater. 4th edit: Not gonna say names, but YEP!!! THEM!!! 5th edit: Not sure why someone would assume the next episode would be out on Friday if the Superbowl only airs on Fox.

[@Johnndis]

God this is so fkn cringey. Also the next ep does air on Friday. Congrats on being not smart.

[@EntertainmentFan11]

@@Johnndis No, the guide said Sunday. Check again.

[@Johnndis]

@@EntertainmentFan11 ok we’re both half right. It’s available to watch on HBO max on Friday. Airs on HBO on Sunday from what I’ve read.

[@kkjhn41]

That business about killing innocent people in order to survive was bullshit on Joel's part trying to avoid the reality of what he's done and who he's become. In fact, when traveling from Texas to Boston he, Tess, Tommy and the group they were with became raiders, robbing and murdering anyone they came across. it's the reason Tommy left Joel for the Fireflies and then when he left the Fireflies he didn't try to return to Joel. In the game he tells Joel that he still has nightmares about what they've done. here he reminds Joel that they weren't just "things" they did, they murdered people. Murder is a very different thing then saying they killed people. It means that there was no excuse like survival, Tommy says there were other ways, they just weren't any good at them. Killing people was easier. people are scared to death of Joel in places like Boston. That's not just because he's a tough guy, that world is full of tough guys. he has a rep as a sadistic, remorseless killer. When we see how he interrogates people what should be apparent is that this is something he's done many times. He doesn't do what he does just because it's about Ellie. This is who he is. This is the monster inside that Craig Mazin points out is not only inside Joel but in Ellie as well. It's something they share and what drew Ellie to him from the moment he beat that FEDRA soldier to death in front of her. When Sarah saw him kill Nana Adler she was horrified and cried. When Ellie saw him kill someone in front of her, she was as Craig said, activated. She was turned on.

[@markg1727]

Dude no one is reading that diatribe and no one cares.

[@number1fool]

Are you from NJ?

[@callmejacob3234]

I know what's coming up the goddamn sniper part is coming up I love The Last of Us it's my favorite game after Batman: Arkham City but man was the sniper part annoying if you've played the game you know if you haven't you should it's a really good game

[@carpetfluff35]

Of course it wasn't her first time...

[@Clonetrooper19961]

Love your channel.

[@Hockeyhobo89]

Lol posted a lot quicker than last weeks 😂

[@sawyer33]

Because she’s not with the fun guy in Mexico this week.

[@Gabriel_Moline]

2:13. You do know you can pause the show when you have story time, so that you don’t miss something? I love story time, so, just say’n.🌸🌿🌷

[@Taliesyn42]

She actually does watch-along reactions that the KZbin clips are taken from, so no, she actually can't.

[@praetorxian]

Lead by a Karen, wants to speak to the Manager.

[@DanHosler]

Filler episode to set up ep 5

[@The_Story_Of_Us]

Did you recognize the voice of Kathleen's bearded friend Perry? That's the guy who plays Tommy in the games.

[@12chapin]

It’s in your (j)genes😆. No sadness this time. 👋🏻.

[@jamezguard]

not in time

[@stewartmatthews1551]

That was good but sad though

[@tony711fz1]

You the Bomb, it's true

[@tony711fz1]

and whatever it is you've got it

[@robertjstepp]

Everything was good in episode 4 except the villain. The whole thing feels super cheesy. Maybe it's her acting? She doesn't seem legit at all! Maybe next episode she can redeem herself

[@xrayzerox]

Someone from Ohio hurt you, right?

[@Syn_Slater]

Less tissues needed this week.

[@musicandmoviefan9217]

IDK I laughed so hard that I shed plenty of tears LOL(mainly at her joke book)

[@nezfromhki]

I'm probably the minority on this one, but surprisingly my least favorite scene in this episode was the one they took almost straight from the game, the porn mag scene in the car. I love it in the game, but here I was distracted how line for line it was the same, to the point that I couldn't help but to unconsciously compare it to the original line deliveries. And while I can't honestly say which one was better, to me the scene from the game will always be "the better one." It made me realize how much I appreciate the changes the show has or even completely new scenes, like the ones about coffee or the diarrhea joke towards the end. Loved those moments and they felt like something that could have been in the game but that we just never saw.

[@fabiofernandes9122]

this episode makes the last episode pointless.

[@frkk6933]

Another zombie serie😴

[@brandonbullington]

@VKunia please continue Harry Potter!?

[@joshuacampbell7493]

I could say the same thing about Spider-Man.

[@EntertainmentFan11]

She's most likely gotten to watching Half-Blood Prince by now. Should probably be on her Patreon. If not, then she's focused currently on watching TLOU among other things. She hasn't stopped watching Harry Potter, though, so don't worry.

[@Hockeyhobo89]

She didn’t finish X-Men (dark phoenix) either

[@EntertainmentFan11]

@@joshuacampbell7493 If you're talking about The Amazing Spider-Man 1 and 2, "No Way Home", and "Into the Spider-Verse", I'm sure she's working on it.

[@joshuacampbell7493]

@@Hockeyhobo89 She said she watched it, but not put it on her channel. Because she said it was a terrible movie.

[@brewcityjesus]

This episode definitely made up for the last one. The only thing good about the last episode was everything that had Ellie and Joel.

[@The_Deaf_Aussie]

Sorry I did not watch you react to previous episode. I found d it offensive and repulsive to watch and did not want to experience such derogatory.. so I skipped that one. Honestly, that episode was unnecessary to the whole story. I think they should scrap that one and throw it into the bin.....

[@evatesche]

So what was it that bothered you? The shared love of two individuals? Honest question.