'The Last of Us' HBO Series (NO GAME SPOILERS!) | Season 2 Coming Spring 2025 (7 Episodes)

[Ziggiy]

Man... The time management for the next episode got me


43 minutes season finale. Shortest episode of the season. Should be an hour and half.

Less is more with this series i’ve discovered. Some of the longer episodes tend to drag in sections. Episode 7 in particular could’ve stood to be shortened up

 

[Ziggiy]

huge fan of ali’s acting (dunno why you spoilered his name) but in hindsight I’m glad they went with pascal tho

If they cast Ali and a black actress as Ellie that shyt would’ve been FIRE but I doubt HBO would have the balls to do that and watching a black man chaperoning a white girl around the world risking life and limb to save her would’ve given magical negro Bojangles/Shirley Temple vibes so in hindsight i’m happy they went with Pedro

 

[OneManGang]

It would break the reality of the show to include them the way the show/game establishes.

It‘s easier to believe Walking Dead outrunning a horde of 20 slow zombies, but these fast infected jumping a group of 3 or 4 should be a wrap every time for someone in the group. There’s no save point or restart button if your health bar drops to zero.

The Bloater showed up in KC after they established the infected were underground for 15 years. Long enough for a few infected to grow that big. It wouldn’t make sense for them to be in a bunch of places where Fedra had been killing infected regularly.

The didn’t do it because they didn’t want to. That’s it. There’s ways to include them and keep it realistic. The people making this show just don’t want to make it about the infected, they’re focusing on the human aspect. I definitely expected a more survival horror aspect to be shown.

 

[DJ Paul's Arm]

This shyt coming off like a fan made project. The show just looks ridiculously cheap

Dude who played David cannot act for shyt. They added some lines to make him cartoonishly evil

 
This better not win any awards

I agree. Some of the casting is way off. The Great Value versions of the real game characters but the acting is there.

 

[Carl Tethers]

at this point their inclusion feels like an extended cameo

Little Easter Eggs for fans of the game

 

[Rekkapryde]

This show weak to me. Had a spark when it started…

Don’t agree with a few show runner decisions

Cool.

But you are in the minority breh.

 

[OneManGang]

Cool.

But you are in the minority breh.

I honestly am OK with that. But I’ve seen enough reviews online and other forums to know it’s not a far out opinion like that. It’s a decent drama show, it’s a bad zombie apocalypse show.

 

[King Static X]

I honestly am OK with that. But I’ve seen enough reviews online and other forums to know it’s not a far out opinion like that. It’s a decent drama show, it’s a bad zombie apocalypse show.

Yeah, I can agree with this.

Like I said in the previous page, people who expected TLOU to be your typical zombie/infected show are going to be disappointed.

 

[humminbird]

Apparently, Mahershala Ali almost played Joel.

yeah I remember the rumors at the time
I think if you go far back in this thread people were talking about it
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The Last Of Us: Mahershala Ali Offered Lead Role Of Joel In Upcoming HBO Series: Exclusive - The Illuminerdi

I’m for it I think it’s great way for the game and show to be their own entities. Mahershala would be pretty dope as Joel too.

plus the Cacs about to be hotter at this than Abby

 

[Zero]

Caught up after missing 3 eps. The last episode

 

[Zero]

 

[Apollo Kid]

It was so good to see OG Joel in the episode..Next week we get OG Ellie

 

[Zero]

I like the show and I understand your point but they could have struck a balance. They could have included more infected without it becoming "mundane and boring".

I know that they are leaning into the drama/emotional side for this show (I've talked about this before in this thread) and I'm fine with that but they still could have included more infected.


I know that some people will say "Well, that's unrealistic" but the entire premise of the show is unrealistic and it's literally based off of a video game. Also, what Joel did in episode 8 was highly unrealistic (and I love episode 8). Joel basically turned into the Hulk after 2 doses of penicillin



Joel would still be out of commission for a while even after receiving the penicillin (also, Ellie didn't administer the penicillin properly). Joel is also lucky that he isn't allergic to penicillin either

Don't even bring up the stitch work with that dirty needle and thread

 

[OneManGang]

Don't even bring up the stitch work with that dirty needle and thread

Ya that was wild. Penicillin not covering the microbes that he would’ve been introducing to his blood stream lol. I was screaming in the tv like “Run a fire over that damn needle ”

 

[Zero]

Play the game then. This show is about……..”the last of US”

Oh this a circlejerk circlejerk