HBO's TheLastOfUs is a moving, if overfamiliar, post-apocalyptic adventure. Read our spoiler-free review:
Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you.It’s difficult to critique HBO’s The Last of Us without first acknowledging the difficulty of critiquing HBO’s The Last of Us.
From an adaptation point of view, Druckmann and co-showrunner Craig Mazin knock the live-action realization of the game’s pandemic-ravaged world out of the park. The Last of Us is every bit as grim and grisly as its source material, with production design that captures the same hopeless atmosphere despite the show’s 10-year timeline shift .
The result is a series of overfamiliar encounters – with zombies, survivalists, estranged family members and militant government organizations – that we’ve seen a dozen times in similar live-action apocalypse adventures. The Last of Us was a groundbreaking game because its conventional setting was made to feel unconventional – here, Druckmann’s slower-pace approach to storytelling is hamstrung by the existence of other movies and TV shows that have made apocalypse premises feel tired.
A couple more action sequences wouldn’t go amiss, too. While a huge number of cutscenes keep their place in HBO’s adaptation, the game’s relentless zombie brain-bashing isn’t so forthcoming on-screen. The Last of Us is rightly more concerned with its human characters than its infected ones, but the show’s ‘clickers’ are scary enough to warrant more than a fleeting appearance.
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