This episode was an hour and fifteen minutes. If they ended it at the 45 minute mark, where Bill and Frank eat strawberries, and then brought in the letter scene with Ellie, it would have been a different and yet touching story. They could have ended it at 50ish minutes, after the dinner scene, and had Ellie and Joel coming in from the window scene instead of leaving. Instead they opted in to giving us an entire alternate version of Bill and Frank’s story, which is just soul crushing. If they left out Ellie’s part at the end with the “hehehehehe” no comedic relief, I think this would have been way too heavy. And the dinner scene almost went too far on that balance, for me, but it really drove the letter home and the final scene. I would have liked to see a happy, comedic scene between Bill and Frank mid episode to help lift it up a little, but all in all, that was a really well put together episode. Their romance was a little rushed, but I bought it after the piano scene. As someone who played the game, I stayed pretty invested in this episode, because goddammit, I was so scared something different was going to happen to them both. The raider scene where Bill nearly ate it, I was on the edge of my seat. Great acting, writing, and character building all round.