What to watch: Haven't seen The Last of Us Yet but heard the hype? Read Ed Power's TV review here, first published in January TheLastOfUsHBO THeLastofUs WhattoWatch
The Last of Us: what truly makes the show is the father-daughter dynamic between Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsay, as Joel and Ellie. Photograph: HBO/Warner Media/SkyThe Last of Us was the first video game to make me cry. And so it is a thrill to report that its heart-shredding mix of melancholy, melodrama and postapocalyptic dread has been faithfully transposed to television in HBO’s much-hyped new adaptation.
Both game and series – the latter debuts on Sky Atlantic on Monday, January 16th – tap into the familiar milieu of the zombie thriller. It’s a genre that has already been flogged to death by the dreadful. But The Last of Us, starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsay, elevates the trope-heavy premise of a society besieged by ravenous hordes. It does so by grafting it to a story of two lost souls finding a connection amid the darkness.
They are Joel , a grizzled middle-aged man whose moral compass was shattered when society collapsed, and Ellie , a teenage girl with a special gift. To reveal more would be to spoil. Suffice to say that, though The Last of Us is in the first instance about zombies laying waste to humanity, it is also about family and the centrality of human connection.
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