The seventh episode of ‘The Last of Us’ has just premiered on HBO Max, a chapter that introduces us to the last third of the series, whose Season 1 ends March 13. Episode 7, entitled “What We Left Behind”, adapts a video game expansion whose events in the series, with Ellie (Bella Ramsey) and Riley (Storm Reid), They predate the central storyline.
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*This article contains spoilers for Chapter 7 of “The Last of Us”.
‘What we left behind’ shows us an important part of Ellie’s past, which includes Riley, her best friend, with whom she is in love. They both have an apocalyptic date night where they enjoy a life full of fun that the pandemic has taken away from them. Towards the end of the episode, we witness the teens’ date culminating in a kiss. The scene gains strength if we take into account, as confirmed by the screenwriter of the series, Neil Druckman, that Riley is Ellie’s first love and first kiss. However, second relationships journalist Mohamed Khairat, founder of the medium Egyptian Streets, the public in some regions did not have a chance to see the kissing scene, because it is censored in Middle Eastern and North African countries by OSN+the streaming platform tasked with releasing “The Last of Us” in those areas.
Next, We can see a video shared by Khairat on Twitter that matches the scene broadcast on OSN+. The kiss, which is supposed to take place between the “OK” and the “I am sorry”, It does not appear. For direct comparison, after the publication of the reporter, the original scene from the series with the kiss is attached.
The Last of Us episode “Left Behind” is censored on OSN+ (MENA region), with one (rather key) kiss scene cut out; and it makes absolutely no sense since “Long, Long Time” with Bill and Frank had no cuts.#The Last of Us pic.twitter.com/jPCcT20txE
? Mohamed Khairat (@khairatmk) February 27, 2023
THE KISS AND THE HAPPINESS BEFORE ALL GOES TO HELL RILEY ELLIE ILYSM #you #the last of us pic.twitter.com/vUBtoqp8rO
? ? (@ungodlywests) February 27, 2023
They didn’t censor chapter 3
Although it is not the first nor the last time that LGTB+ content has been removed from productions in several homophobic countries, Khairat explains in his tweet that this particular case is strange to him, because OSN+ hasn’t removed any scenes, not even the intimate ones, from Chapter 3 of the same series, centered around the same-sex love story between Bill and Frank. However, according to Game Spot, this isn’t the first time OSN+ has censored LGBT+ moments, which they did in “How to Defend a Murderer” and “House of the Dragon.”
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