SummarySet 20 years after the destruction of civilization, Joel (Pedro Pascal) is hired to smuggle 14-year-old Ellie (Bella Ramsey) out of a quarantine zone in this drama series based on the PlayStation video game of the same name.
SummarySet 20 years after the destruction of civilization, Joel (Pedro Pascal) is hired to smuggle 14-year-old Ellie (Bella Ramsey) out of a quarantine zone in this drama series based on the PlayStation video game of the same name.
Attractive and spectacular. Ali Abbasi showed an admirable direction in this episode. Which is definitely one of the most interesting parts of the series to this day
Bella Ramsey deserves some awards. (And Pedro. :P ) I'm glad we got so see Ashley Johnson too. I'm not sure what I prefer between the game and the TV series, but I think Season 2 will be better than the game.
In short: One great scene in an otherwise ultra rushed episode with a pointless flashback that just ate up more time. Bella is a plank of wood and Pedo continues to carry the show, and the writers have no concept of spacing or time. Its an okay episode, it just had no time to breathe for things to feel as impactful as they should have.
It's was alot to try and portray in 42 mins.. Again missing huge source material sections totally removing infected, the episode was fine but felt really rushed like some of the others.
Like someone else said, it's always just felt like a big budget but fan film, if you've never played the game you wouldn't really understand why, but it's like when they make movies from books.. The books are nearly always favoured by the original fans. The series has not been horrendous, but it's glossed over alot of what the game story made exceptional, maybe that didn't translate.. Who knows, but the danger and the tension you felt from certain sections just weren't there at all and some of the changes especially to bills story were too big. I didn't rate tlou2 as much hopefully I'll prefer the series over the game.
The opening scene was cool...good to see Ashley **** was also nice to see an actual zombie, as **** did they need Ellie again if there aren't many infected in the first place?
Other than that..more of the **** whole thing just seems like a fan **** the difference is...a few I found on youtube are better than this.
The atmosphere is **** there's little else I really liked.
Pedro at least tries...Bellas lines are far to **** sounds like she's just trying to get it over with.
To sum things up...neither of the should have been cast as the main **** you know what..some things just dont translate from game to show..this included..especially when the main characters don't look, act or talk like Joel and Ellie.
Find a different era to focus on (in between tlou 1 and 2 would be great) and do that...
That's just how I VIEW **** you feel differently..great!
I'll give a few points back for Henry, Sam, Frank and the sets
3/10