Now that we have come to the end of season one of The Last of Us, I can get to my review.. spoilers to a minimum of course.

Now us gamer people knew what we were getting when we first seen the new of a Last of Us series coming out. A great game with a gripping story and very realistic character acting. 

The rest of the world, I am going to assume, probably seen this as just another zombie/Walking dead type of show, or just another video game show and might have skipped out on it.

Well that might have been the case for the first few episodes, but the audience score just kept going up as more people were getting the word of just how good of a show The Last of Us is.

Just for a brief overview,, a highly contagious and deadly “infection” (fungus really) takes hold and the entire planet is affected. Bands of scattered survivors deal with a now turned apocalyptic society.   

The series and game follow Joel and Ellie as they escape the East Coast security camps and head across country in order to get Eli to a medical facility where her blood may be the clue to a cure to this now decade(s) long pandemic.

The thing about the Last of Us, is that yes there are monsters, or zombies hordes, or infecteds out there killing every one and everything. But thats not what makes The Last of Us fairly terrifying. Its th actions and dealings that ordinary people… the surviving world has turned to.

Mirroring recent political faction movements and ideology, freedom, rights and any normal life is a thing of the past. But this cure, could possibly, hopefully bring change.

The trek to the west is full of encounters with both marauders and “friends” that see a cure as only oppertunity to profit, and any outsiders as just a threat to be dealt with.

Oh there is action and fight scenes a plenty, but its the dialogs and character stories that really pushes everything along. The casting of the major characters couldn’t have been better, and keeping not only the original direction of things, but not really inventing new plot points really kept it focused.

If I had to make one complaint, i guess it would be on pacing. The show really moves along. Maybe a bit too fast. I get that I don’t want 2 hours of drive time, but sometimes it felt like they were just checking boxes. “ok we hit here, seen those people, now there..’ but I do feel like the over all story kept its backbone.

It must be tough to keep enough mystery in a show that half of the audience already knows what happens, and is waiting for slips, but they pulled it off, and still have me waiting for more.

I do recommend the Last of Us. Even if you are not a zombie fungus monster survial game lover. The characters and character decisions is what this about.