I’m certainly no prude, but whether it’s a gay scene or a heterosexual scene, I think they are all a waste of time. Just show the buildup to the moment and then get back to the real story line.
I watched the episode in question and all of that was a waste. 1 guy was a hardcore prepper the other was a lost survivor. They were complete opposites, but the prepper was always prepared. In the end, the lost survivor is dying a slow death from MS and wants to die, and the prepper decides to go out with him. I was more upset that when the main star shows up, he didn’t take his entire weapons cache which he needed to fight his way across the american wasteland
I have never played the game, but The Last of US is a show based on a video game and the gay scenes were in the video game from everything I’ve read.
From that perspective I can understand why the scene was in the show.