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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was a really wonderful episode. I was minorly spoiled for it because I follow Tom & Lorenzo and they'd seen it before it aired and posted several non-spoilers but rave comments about it before it aired with stills from the episode so I knew from the jump base don context clues that Murray Bartlett was going to show up and also that presumably they would have a relationship. So I think that dulled the emotional impact of the storyline a bit for me but it was still incredibly well done. Murray Bartlett was wonderful as always but I loved what Nick Offerman did with that role, which was in many ways the same role he always plays except in a very unique situation and getting to see that character become vulnerable the way he does was so touching. I would love to see these two actors in something else again. Just really amazing. "You were my purpose." Gut wrenching but yes, Frank, romantic.

Also just want to echo the sentiment that sometimes storylines like this feel shoehorned in to deliver some requisite diversity to a show and this didn't at all. It felt totally organic and it did not feel possible to imagine this storyline with any other characters than this. It didn't feel like a "gay storyline" so much as it just felt entirely like Bill & Frank's story and their gender and sexual orientation was secondary to their unique characters and relationship.

I also liked that we are seeing this love story between them unfold in full before [b]we ever find out exactly what the nature of Joel and Tess's relationship was[/b], even after Tess has died. It feels like this episode and others will continue to hint at what was between them, and we will continue to get flashbacks to when Joel and Tess were together, throughout the season until it is more clear what they had between them. And I like that way of telling their story because it allows us to see it through Ellie's eyes a bit, as she is also on the outside looking in, but unlike Ellie, we are also getting a Birdseye view via a parallel storyline like this that likely has some relationship to Joel and Tess (as is made clear in the scenes between the four of them and also in Bill's note to Joel, where it is made clear that there are parallels between Bill and Joel though also clear differences that I think bother Joel and he doesn't want to think about them).

Anyway, if this episode doesn't sell you on this show, not sure what will.[/quote]

I thought it was pretty clear Joel and Tess were a long-term couple. You don't think so?[/quote]

DP.  In the "present day" scenes we've seen of Joel and Tess, they seemed more like teammates, or colleagues working toward a common goal - not much romantic chemistry, if any.  In the flashbacks, they still seemed platonic, but perhaps more likely to have been romantically involved.  It wasn't clear to me that they were any more than longtime friends.[/quote]

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