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 find most torrent trackers I frequent there's at least some pushback to CHUDery (and normaly chuds are the most vocal generally). For this episode tho there's one comment about how the person cried during the episode and a dozen comments complaining that the codec used doesn't work on their TV lmao.
Oh aye, there are a few people who bite back but it stinks when you click on comments and you see a wall of slurs and misery.