If you'd asked me before I started watching The Last Of Us I would probably have said that we didn't really need yet another show about a dystopian future right now - and I still think that, but I'm going to give The Last Of Us a pass on that front.

Somehow this show defies the trend and manages to be engaging and draw you into it's world - a world we've mostly seen before - but not with these characters - and by that I guess I really mean, not with these leads. Pedro Pascal and his young co-star Bella Ramsey do the lion's share of the heavy lifting here - and they do it with understated brilliance - between them they manage to stand for our last chance - and they make you care in the process. Not so much because it's our last chance, but more because of what they've gradually come to represent.

It also has to be said that the production design and execution is top notch - convincingly bleak, abandoned, and showing signs of being well fought over and devastated.

All in all The Last Of Us is a very satisfying watch. It's an easy 8, probably a 9 - so 8 1/2.