I played this for my crying, teething baby, she watched it quietly all the way through then on the final second closed her eyes and peacefully slept for twelve hours
The Last of Us HBO is obsessed with moral clarity, clearly drawn lines and neatly articulated, logically reasonable motivations rather than emotionally complicated, messy and imperfect, even unlikable protagonists and it is an infinitely weaker version of the story for it.
you are SUPPOSED to see the lengths ellie’s grief takes her to. her worst, darkest moments.
making her ‘accidentally’ kill owen and mel feels like a slap in the face. she shot his fucking ass and stabbed that pregnant lady in the neck. are you all fucking stupid
I’m sorry, but I can’t buy this bruise scene. We’ve barely seen Ellie fight anyone.
The TLOU2 show skipped past a lot of things in the game for “TV reasons,” but then kept consequences from the game that now feel unearned in the TV version.
An odd adaptation…