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Another year, another post-apocalyptic HBO series about a man forced to look after a young girl...

I'm not a gamer, but even I know that The Last of Us is regarded as one of the best games of all time. Now that it's been adapted into a television series, I figured this was my chance to discover what all the hype was about!

Having watched it... I'm still not sure.

I'm sure it's a great game, but this series feels a bit too similar to other movies, shows, and even games that I kiiinda liked more. Station Eleven, anyone?!

That said, one episode in particular absolutely destroyed me. You may or may not be able to guess which.

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Dane

It helps a lot that I played the game but I love this show, I feel like the cinematography feels like it's trying to capture the vastness of the environment of the game. Each of the pairs of characters we meet kinda reinforces that with love comes an immense loss in this world, Joel's fear is losing another daughter. Sam and Henry is the most obvious mirror of Joel and Ellie. This episode I believe is mostly about Ellie losing her innocence which will be explored later in season 2.

Dane

The majority of the important moments are pulled straight from the game, sometimes word for word.

Erin Sullivan

yeah the “freak of the week” nature of the first game doesn’t translate super well to episodic television - but the second game luckily isn’t another cross-country road trip scenario so we get characters that stick around.

legs

eric you should do a commentary of a 3hr cutscene movie of the video game on youtube!! i think you’d love it so many things are different and it’s just so incredible😭

Katie Holmes

wait didn't you say in episode 3 that you hope every episode is a new character we hang out with?? is the issue more that they die at the end?

Krista

ur reactions made me realize me being close to the actor that plays ellie’s age and being attracted to them is impacting how much i like the character lol

Krista

that also also feeling represented by a tiny annoying teen girl that i once was

AuthenticApathy

This game is both praised and criticized for being basically a playable movie, and I would pay an extra tier to watch you (Eric) playthrough the game.

Jason C

In the game you do play as both. For example, in the part of the game for this episode you play as Ellie while Joel is in the basement. Also that Tiger Woods thing was definitely a subtle spoiler for the next season.

Martin Lopez

Troy Baker who plays James in the show is the voice actor for Joel in the game

Chas Addison

I died when he said Tiger Woods is in the second game lmaooooo IYKYK

Austin Goodwin

Omfg noooo I just now got the Tiger Woods reference 💀 Eric is going to loose his mind come next season when he finds out why.

Peter Amet

Honestly late but would love a reaction to gameplay or something, comparison from show to game or something!