Review by t-feier

So I finally buckled and watched "The Last of Us". It's a pretty good show, sometimes even great, yet it's just not the "Must watch" people make it out to be.

I think the positives of the show are pretty well known by now and theres little to argue here. The main acctors have good chemistry, set pieces are great and it's beautifully shot. Since everybody is already raving about the positives I won't go into too much detail here and focus on the issues I had with the show.

One thing that was bugging me was the pacing and writing. Way too much is communicated via flashback or quasi stand-alone episodes. Thats really making the whole thing feel rather disjointed and caused huge problems in the end. It definitely felt like the show was running out of time and a lot of important plot points didn't get the attention they deserved. The actual finale of the show as well as the ending or epilogue felt extremely rushed and therefore hollow. No clue why they paced the show like this. My best bet is that they were trying to cram some extra fan service in.

But the biggest issue is that the show keeps repeating the same pattern of getting ones hopes up and ruining everything with a gut-punch twist. That might be effective if you do it once or twice but it gets old quickly. I stopped caring after a few episodes because I always felt like I was just watching the prelude to yet another catastrophe. Weirdly everything else is by the numbers and the show never really managed to surprise me. Raiders, cannibals, monsters - we've seen it all before and the show isnt really doing anything new with those tropes.

So despite the amazing chemistry between the two main actors and great production value I felt like watching just another zombie horror show after a while. If those arent right up your alley you can calmly skip "The Last of Us".