It’s been called “the single best episode of TV that will be broadcast this year”. So why does this week’s much-hyped instalment of HBO series TheLastofUs have almost 30,000 one-star reviews on IMDb?
as well as the video game it’s based on.
It’s been called “the single best episode of TV that will be broadcast this year” and “the most touching and heartbreaking hour of television in the world”. So why does this week’sThe episode that tracks a queer romance across two decades during a mutant fungus apocalypse has the lowest user rating of the show’s three episodes.
is a hugely popular adventure game that revolves around a smuggler, Joel, and a teenage girl, Ellie, travelling across the US after a fungus outbreak has infected and zombified most of the population.This is also the focus of the action-packed HBO series, which started last month – a show which has so far earned 96 per cent and 93 per cent ratings from critics and audiences respectively on Rotten Tomatoes.
Though Bill is a gruff survivalist and reluctant ally of Joel’s in both texts, his romance with Frank is only broadly alluded to in the game and, in fact, it ends quite traumatically.stating “I want you to know I hated your guts ... I wanted more from life than this, and you could never get that.” In the show, however, their relationship is shown in great detail – and is extraordinarily loving, aside from the odd fight. Finally, Frank decides to end his own life after years of illness. And, faced with the prospect of living without the man he loves, Bill chooses to die with him.“This isn’t the tragic suicide at the end of the play,” Bill says. “I’m old. I’m satisfied. And you were my purpose.
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