https://www.businessinsider.com/hbos-the-last-of-us-episode-three-review-bombed-homophobic-2023-1
Neil Druckmann, the co-creator of the series who also developed the video game, told The Hollywood Reporter that Bill and Frank's relationship "went over a lot of people's heads" in the game.
"At the time, [the subtlety is] what helped get it in," he said. "It's sad to say, but it would have been controversial otherwise."
I forget the show, but there was one I was tormenting way back and one commenter kept reviewing each episode in the review section and the replies were always that it's meant to comment on whether the torrent is having issues, if the quality is good, if it's actually a virus etc. Not like, reviewing the show itself. It was pretty funny.
I like vague comments about the episode. Stumbling on stuff from 14 years ago that's like "wow very relevant" and trying to decipher what it could be referencing is fun.