![]() The DVD Sarah hands Joel is Curtis and Viper 2 – a film franchise referenced throughout the games. The way Mercy, Joel and Sarah’s neighbour’s dog, was looking at the lady in the wheelchair … why is it always dogs who notice things before anyone else? We should pay more attention to dogs. It’s early days, but so far, Bella Ramsey is Ellie, a perfect, contradictory mix of innocence, naivety, brattishness, street smarts and swearing. Whether Pascal can fully capture Joel’s brutality remains to be seen, but if anyone can, it’s him. I want to try to keep comparisons and mentions of the video game to a minimum and treat this as a separate entity – it has to work as a standalone, not just for fans of the game who know what’s coming – but so far, this series has done an amazing job of transporting the characters to screen. OverallĪ hugely promising start, with a lot of setup to get through. Photograph: HBO/Warner Media/2022 Home Box Office, Inc. Questionable … Merle Dandridge as Marlene in The Last of Us. Inside this QZ, Joel – searching for his brother, now in Wyoming – and his friend Tess (Anna Torv) have become expert smugglers, but it’s only after being crossed by Robert, who has stolen a battery they were expecting and sold it to the Fireflies, that things really get going. Plus, a band of rebels, the Fireflies, has sprung up, hoping to overthrow Fedra and bring about a new democracy. Naturally, there’s a hidden economy in contraband drugs – and just about everything else. John Hannah’s worst fears came true, and a mutated cordyceps fungus, helped along by a climate crisis, has swept the planet, leaving billions either dead or worse – zombiefied.įedra (the Federal Disaster Response Agency) have established quarantine zones for survivors, but rule with an iron fist, executing those who try to flee. Twenty years laterīoston, 2023, and the world is wrecked. After all, if you’ve played the game, you’ve seen it before if you haven’t, it’s stylistically unnecessary.Ī friend in need… Joel (Pedro Pascal) with Tess (Anna Torv) in The Last of Us. This series seems smart enough to ignore the pitfalls most video game adaptations fall into, so let’s hope those shot-for-shot redos are used sparingly. ![]() The escape scene, from Sarah’s perspective, was uncannily similar to the same moment from the game, detrimentally so. ![]() Bye bye, Sarah, we hardly knew you, though I imagine Nico Parker has a promising career ahead of her. Anyone who has played the video game will have been dreading what was coming next, as the trio desperately tried to find a way out, then crashed and were confronted by a soldier. After Joel smashed their neighbour Mrs Adler’s head in with a spanner, he, Sarah and Tommy tried to escape the area in their pickup truck as all hell broke loose around them. His daughter stole the money for his present from his wallet, he had to work a double shift and was late getting home, forgot to pick up a cake, then his daft brother called to say he’d been locked up by the police for getting into a bar fight.Ī dream in comparison to future birthdays, though. A birthday to rememberĮven before the zombie outbreak, things weren’t going brilliantly for Joel. Here today … Sarah (Nico Parker) and Joel (Pedro Pascal) in The Last of Us.
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