Topic: HBO Series:- The Last of Us [spoiler tags approach applies!]

[buttersstotch]

I think it makes a lot of sense to split Season 2 up in to two parts with shorter episode counts. There's a lot of extra story they could flesh out and I've no idea how they could include the Pearl Jam song in Season 2 at this point.

The biggest worry for me will be Druckman's insistence that The Last of Us Part III would come out before any narrative was adapted to a TV show. Now while I am sure Part III is being worked on, it doesn't seem likely to be out until 2026 at the earliest. HBO will want 4-5 seasons of the show

[Garlicbread]

Just announced that HBO have renewed The Last of Us for a second season.

Unsurprising, but a very, very fast renewal. Looking forward to seeing who they cast as Abby.

Shannon Berry is rumored to be Abby.

[Brian Blessed]

Do we need two threads. Some of these posts seem a bit spoilery to people that haven’t played the games.

[Bread]

Shannon Berry is rumored to be Abby.

I've seen these rumours, but they feel a bit tenuous based on seemingly on the fact that Druckmann follows her on Instagram. Gives me a similar vibe to when people were fancasting Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Kaitlyn Dever as Joel and Ellie.

[Hedley Lamarr]

Masterpiece.

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

Not watched episode 3 yet, or played the game.. please tell me Nick Offerman is Ron Swanson-like?

[Hedley Lamarr]

Not watched episode 3 yet, or played the game.. please tell me Nick Offerman is Ron Swanson-like?

Both Swanson-like and the complete opposite.

[emergency exit]

Masterpiece.

Absolutely. Incredible hour (+) of television that immediately lifted this show up another level.

[Hedley Lamarr]

Absolutely. Incredible hour (+) of television that immediately lifted this show up another level.

I was sat in my front room at 6am crying like a baby.  One of THE great episodes of TV.

[newrosswaterford]

Masterpiece.

Agreed.

One of the greatest hours of tv I've seen anyway.

[AndyMuller]

Sounds like they have knocked it out the park with the latest episode. Cannot wait to watch it tonight.

[emergency exit]

I was sat in my front room at 6am crying like a baby.  One of THE great episodes of TV.

Yes! And they even threw in

Spoiler

Max Richter's "On the Nature of Daylight"

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there towards the end, which completely pushed me over the edge.

[kopite321]

Wow...beautifully acted

[The G in Gerrard]

Do we need two threads. Some of these posts seem a bit spoilery to people that haven’t played the games.

Agreed. I have no idea about the games and just enjoying the first two episodes regardless.

[AndyMuller]

How would you know which post is spoilery or not if you haven't played the games? 

[Chakan]

Omg that last episode!! So much dust, stupid dust.

[The G in Gerrard]

How would you know which post is spoilery or not if you haven't played the games? 

Not so much spoilers but person watching show would not know what this Abby relevance has

[Schmarn]

That was a great episode though once again prologue kicks the crap out of the present story.

I’m guessing the granularity of Bill and Frank’s relationship is artistic licence but I’ve never seen the game.

[Garlicbread]

What a fantastic episode.  :'(

[Hedley Lamarr]

That was a great episode though once again prologue kicks the crap out of the present story.

I’m guessing the granularity of Bill and Frank’s relationship is artistic licence but I’ve never seen the game.

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Kinda, it is implied in the game at least twice (despite some of the outrage Ive seen) but the show does extrapolate.  The prologue moved things on a lot on my opinion, Joel warms towards Ellie at the end and obviously she now has a gun

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[spartan2785]

Haven't watch the 2nd and 3rd episodes, I really liked the first episode, and the games are in my opinion the best written games of all time, so I'm now debating if I want to just wait and binge it, or go ahead and start to watch it week to week.

It's good to hear that the last two episodes have been as good or better than the first one.

[AndyMuller]

Wow, that last episode was absolutely tremendous television.

[Tombellylfc]

Right up there as one of the best episodes of TV I've ever seen that one I reckon

[filopastry]

That really is a remarkable piece of TV

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

Haven't watch the 2nd and 3rd episodes, I really liked the first episode, and the games are in my opinion the best written games of all time, so I'm now debating if I want to just wait and binge it, or go ahead and start to watch it week to week.

It's good to hear that the last two episodes have been as good or better than the first one.

Not played the game but for me, its a show that is lending itself well to one episode a week. It would be a bit intense to binge I think! Need a while to recover from what I've just watched.

[Snail]

That was

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so sad my chest aches

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[meady1981]

Ahhhhh so it is good!

[TheKid.]

Wow. Just wow. The fleshing out of a character from the game who was merely alluded to from a solitary note made for some amazing television

[Schmarn]

I wouldn’t binge. This episode was 90 mins. It’s my Monday treat now.

[RedKenWah]

Stunned by how good this show is. Absolutely amazing stuff! That third episode as well an absolute master class if I say so myself…

[TheKid.]

I wouldn’t binge. This episode was 90 mins. It’s my Monday treat now.

Yeah same. Agree with someone saying it needs ‘recovery time’ after an episode too. I felt
Like that when I first played the game years back as well

[Snail]

I wouldn’t binge. This episode was 90 mins. It’s my Monday treat now.

Yep, it’s the highlight of my week.

[MBL?]

Yeah that was great and probably won’t be topped.

[J-Mc-]

Great to see that they can finally tell the full story that the game didn’t allow them to.

Incredible episode that fleshed out a minor character in the game and also gave them even more purpose overall.

[tinner777]

Jesus, tremendous. However, never played the game, but please don't kill him in my head for the first half

[RedSince86]

Fantastic episode.

Pity it's to late for TV awards season,  brilliant acting from Offerman and Bartlett.

[rk1]

Fantastic episode.

Pity it's to late for TV awards season,  brilliant acting from Offerman and Bartlett.

Bartlett was great as always. His character in White Lotus was outstanding as well

[GreatEx]

Ha, we are watching White Lotus in between TLOU drops so seeing Murray Bartlett will be a trip.

Good to hear they're fleshing out some of the storylines you learn snippets of in the game via artefacts. They enrich the game, but would make boring TV if Joel and Ellie just read notes to each other.

[emergency exit]

FFS 

So I sometimes also post on a (video-game-related) discord server, where they also have a sub-channel for TLOS and where we've now been having a heated discussion about this latest episode.

I'm one of the older guys in there, and some of those young lads are really doing my head in right now. I mean, while 90 percent of the internet seems to agree that we've just witnessed one of the greatest hours of television in years, they're in there slagging it off to no end, complaining about how "instead of action and thrills we only got a boring gay romance that went on for far too long and has nothing to do with Joel & Ellie."

And I've now spent way too many hours already picking apart their arguments (without them ever aknowledging a single counter-argument of mine and some of the like-minded folk!). I am at the point where I'm screaming, in my head, at my monitor, and I can't even explain why I'm so passionate about this.

But I simply could not let their "1/10 this episode ruined the entire show" comments stand 

[meady1981]

I think you just have to accept that c*nts are c*nts and always will be.
They have to live their miserable lives and that’s all the punishment you can give them.
They’re overwhelmingly in the wrong. Well done for trying. But an Internet forum is just not the place. In the real world, they’re mute.