![]() This time, even though I knew exactly what was going to happen, it landed thanks to great pacing and solid acting. I wasn’t invested enough in the characters for it to affect me. ![]() The story kicks off with a tearjerker moment, but when I played the game almost a decade ago, it didn’t land for me. Video games will always be my preferred medium of entertainment, but in this instance, I feel the TV adaptation of “The Last of Us” is better-paced than the game. The opening scene of the pilot portrays an epidemiologist explaining the potential threat of an evolved Cordyceps fungus, foreshadowing the disaster to unfold – it’s engrossing and almost scientifically sound. It’s true to the source material – there are added details and story elements, but so far none of them contradict or detract from the original script. With 16 games and 31 novels, the franchise is hardly without content, but the writers elected to ignore almost all of it.īy contrast, “The Last of Us” is clearly a labor of love. In many ways, it already felt like a long interactive movie.īut then I remember the Halo adaptation that premiered on Paramount+ in March – making bizarre and questionable changes to the source material for no good reason, butchering the personalities of beloved characters and committing the cardinal sin of Master Chief removing his helmet. On one hand, I could play devil’s advocate and say that the adaptation isn’t all that impressive – the original game was extremely cinematic with regards to storytelling and even portions of its gameplay. That’s a fantastic rating by any metric, but compared to other video game adaptations, it’s unprecedented. ![]() As of writing, it holds a 99% critic score and a 96% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Thus far, “The Last of Us” is very true to its source material – the 2013 video game by the same name. The story revolves around the main characters – Joel, played by Pedro Pascal and Ellie, portrayed by Bella Ramsey – discovering a potential cure to the virus and attempting to deliver it to a lab halfway across the country. Nearly every remaining human is motivated by an understandable sense of desperation. The result is a ravaged, desolate wasteland whose only semblance of civilization is totalitarian military states, raiders and nomads. The real-world Cordyceps fungus does this to insects, so “The Last of Us” poses the question: what if it evolved to infect humans? completely overrun by a fungal virus that causes hosts to mutate and become rabid. Without getting into spoiler territory, the story takes place in a modern-day U.S. Deservedly so – the game franchise is held in high regard for its intense storyline and fascinating post-apocalyptic setting and thus far, the new show follows closely in its footsteps. “The Last of Us” has seen a massive surge in interest following the release of the pilot episode of its TV series adaptation on HBO and HBO Max – Google Trends data shows a 376% increase in searches since Sunday.
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