Iewit’s evolving. Spreading. And there’s still no sign of a cure. No stopping it from rooting itself into human civilization. Settlements are rare and far between.
After the events of season 1, Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsay) continue to survive through the apocalypse. They will have to face new factions and even more infected.
The second season of The Last of Us (HBO Max) is a good continuation of the series. Though it’s not perfect, some of the slower paced episodes serve to give exposition to the actions the characters make; like helping a random survivor, or they kill someone onscreen, it’s so viewers who want to pay attention to the story aren’t lost and it doesn’t become meaningless filler.
Because the show is based on the games, most of the events in the show are the same compared to the games. The show then becomes predictable for people who have played the games and so they might not want to watch the full season. But the show gives gamers a reason to watch it by adding new scenes that haven’t happened in the games so there are new things for those gamers to witness.
What makes these creative liberties special is how they do not disrupt the plot of the show and, if anything, it makes the world of The Last of Us feel more immersive. Everything isn’t centered around our main cast of characters, but we have other people trying to survive through different means.
For example, we’re shown a brief side-story about a soldier and his squad on a patrol, but then something unexpected occurs – I don’t want to give spoilers – that left me a little shocked and started questioning why it happened. Each of these new scenes transition from previous ones and vice versa, very well where they don’t feel forced and do what they’re supposed to do. Add to the world and story. The dialog is interesting and the events that take place during it are quite shocking. The world of The Last of Us is so much bigger in the show than the games because we’re given these interesting B plots that are about how other people are surviving the apocalypse.
The second season really delivers on post-apocalyptic thrills. The action scenes are very intricate and the settings are really thought out where it feels like how it would be in a real world setting. Things can get really intense, because imagine being in a world where the smallest mistake will cost you your life. An example would be when a large group of survivors has to fend off an even larger horde of infected. They have countermeasures; like booby traps and walls.
I’m very confident that, in the end, the second season of The Last of Us will deliver what fans of the franchise have been waiting for. I liked how they have kept true to the events from the games, but they did not just copy n’ paste. They were able to add scenes that did not happen in the game without destroying the driving story.
The Last of Us is a very good watch for people who have played the games, because it stays close to the plot, but it adds new things that didn’t happen in the games so it keeps viewers on the edge of their seat to keep watching.
I recommend The Last of Us to people who enjoy the zombie apocalypse action genre. It fills scenes with suspense and tense action that keeps your eyes locked on the screen.
