Last Sunday the first chapter -90 minutes- of the long-awaited series premiered The Last of Us, considered one of the great premieres of 2023 in HBO Max. After its arrival on the platform, viewers have not stopped talking about it, while critics have valued it as the best in recent history, leaving it more than high for the chapters to come.
‘The Last of Us’ on HBO Max: What should you know before seeing it?
According to the medium, Ace, the series has an 8.4 on MetaCritic after more than 36 reviews from the international press. 99% of the media recommend it and 96% of the users of the platform also.
los angeles times they place it as a prestige drama based on a prestige video game, “with quality distinctions that put this story in a league of its own.” “The television adaptation is such a gripping story of survival because it leaves so much room for savagery and love, despair and selflessness.”
This medium also highlights the proposal of the scenarios. “With each episode, their journey leads us into new webs of survival, brought to life by stunning set design”they write.
San Francisco Chronicle say what “It is not only the best adaptation of a video game, but the best series, period”,
They also applaud the fact that it is an adaptation that does not stray from the original proposal of the video game, and it could not be otherwise, having been co-created by the game’s architect, Neil Druckmann, and the executive producer of ChernobylCraig Mazin. “The first two hours of The Last of Us they stick so closely to the original narrative that it can be unsettling for people who grew up playing the game.”
Magazine Empire declares that It is “the best adaptation of a video game ever made” Y The Daily Beast assures that “will end the debates and stigmas about adapting video games”.
And it is that in general, critics admit that the adaptation of the video game throughout history has been “mostly terrible”, says The Telegraph in your review. “The Last of Us It’s a rare piece of television: an adaptation that makes you want to run out and play the game.”says the critic of this medium.
However, since The Hollywood Reporter They describe it as “a sincere but superficial version of the darkness and light within human nature.”
What is The Last of Us about?
The Last of Us is a nine-part drama based on a famous video game about the end of the world, in which a parasitic fungus, known as Cordyceps, it has turned much of the human population into blood-sucking zombies, leaving the rest of humanity to fight the infected and fight each other for the resources that remain.
Among the protagonists is the Texas contractor Joel (Pedro Pascal), his daughter Sarah (Nico Parker) and his brother Tommy (Gabriel Luna). Joel meets Ellie (Bella Ramsey), an energetic 14-year-old girl with a secret that could be the hope of the world: being bitten by an infected and still standing makes her think she is immune to the fungus.
“The leader of the local fireflies asks Joel to get her out of town to a safe place, where she could help scientists make a vaccine.”
Source: Eluniverso
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