After we meet Invoice in The Final of Us, it’s closely implied that he was homosexual and that he had a romance together with his outdated accomplice Frank. Although we solely get to see the aftermath of their relationship, it appears to be like just like the HBO sequence will delve extra into it.
In an interview with The New Yorker, sport director Neil Druckmann, who can also be hooked up to the HBO sequence, confirmed that a whole episode shall be devoted to the connection between Invoice (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett).
Druckmann explains:
“As superior as that episode is, there are going to be followers who’re upset by it… To me, the story we inform is genuine to the world. It’s genuine to the themes that we’re speaking about.”
Identical to all the opposite characters within the present, Invoice and Frank are there to function comparisons for Joel and Ellie’s relationship, and Druckmann explains that it’s about “outward love and inward love—the individuals who wish to make all people higher, and the individuals who wish to defend explicit individuals at any value.”
Most likely one of many extra fascinating hat tips of The Final of Us is having the participant slowly sympathize for Joel and Ellie’s journey, and that will get ramped as much as eleven when the sequel comes round. We don’t know the way a lot of the sport the primary season can cowl, however I’d love to spend so much of time with Offerman’s Invoice who form of appears like an precise Ron Swanson surviving within the apocalypse.
Catch The Final of Us when it premieres on HBO Max on Jan. 16, 2023.