TheLastOfUs is a finer version of 'The Walking Dead' — and HBO's next big hit
That first episode is competently made and has some harrowing moments. But as a non-gamer, I didn’t come out of it understanding why so many of my friends had been so excited to see this specific show materialize. Quickly, though, two things happen. The first is that Mazin and the show’s other directors stop trying to ape the visual language of a game, so that when violence happens, it feels like a filmed action sequence, and not like a level you’re not allowed to play yourself.
Even in my younger years, I was at best a button-masher, and thus smiled at a scene in a later episode where we see a friend tell Ellie to just start pushing buttons when they get an oldThe second and more important development is that Druckmann and Mazin soon begin to go deeper on these characters, and have assembled such a terrific group of actors to play them, thatbecomes at least as engrossing in its quiet moments as in its scary ones — and arguably more so when it’s just focusing on who...
In many ways, the show is a triumph of typecasting. Once again, Pedro Pascal is playing an action hero of few words who has to lead a cute young charge through hostile territory. He’s joined by fellowalum Bella Ramsey, and if her Ellie is far warmer and funnier than underaged House Stark ally Lyanna Mormont, Ramsey is nonetheless again playing a girl who has had to grow up far too soon, and participate in far too much violence, due to the circumstances of the broken world around her.
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