The Last of Us season 2 navigates between faithfully adapting its source material and expanding its narrative for television. Within the storyline, Seth, a bartender, expresses blatant queerphobia towards Ellie and Dina's public affection. This incident triggers discussions about the show’s focus on this type of bigotry, with some arguing it implies queerphobia is the only surviving prejudice post-apocalypse. The show presents Seth as a character warranting complexity, but critics argue that bigotry shouldn't be treated lightly or rationalized as a mere character flaw.
It is definitionally bigoted behavior for a man to harbor such distaste for queer people in his heart that cannot see a couple kids get a little smoochy.
The Last of Us seems to want me to believe that the only overt prejudice to have survived the apocalypse is queerphobia.
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