I feel I should probably preface this review by stating that TLOU is one of my favourite games of all time, so certain parts of my review may be slightly biased.

Overall this series is close to perfection in terms of recreating the look and feel of The Last of Us game. The sets, costumes and locations look like they have been ripped right from the game and put on-screen. Dialogue and scenes have been recreated with so much love and attention to detail it is genuinely amazing at times. The original music from the game is also utilised well, although in my opinion not nearly enough.

Pedro Pascal is almost flawless in his interpretation of Joel, he is a phenomenal actor. I took a little while to warm to Bella Ramsey as Ellie, although this may just be as I have held the character so close to heart for so many years. By the end of the series I would say that she had won me over, although she never felt 100% "Ellie" to me, more like an alternate version, whereas I totally bought Pedro as Joel by the end of the series.

I do feel that the season could have done with being a few episodes longer, as important parts of the game have been left out in a lot of places. I have seen a lot of people complaining that there wasn't enough action, which I somewhat agree with. The creators have said that they wanted to focus more on the human experience, not just the violence, but I can't help but feel the complete lack of a threat from the infected throughout most of the series will make most people get a little bored! Ellie's character growth throughout the game, as well as her and Joel's trust-building, was shown a lot through combat situations, so this wouldn't have just been "mindless action", it would have served a purpose. Having shown Joel actually engage in combat would have made his character feel as dangerous as he should have. This series mainly hints at it right up until the last couple of episodes.

I also think the short run-time of the series hurt the overall feeling of this being an epic, cross country journey that took the best part of a year. I watched it with someone who had never played the game and when asked, she assumed the whole story took place over a couple of months. Also, although I enjoyed the Bill & Frank episode, I think taking an entire hour to focus on two characters who have very little relevance to the actual plot was a very strange choice and just meant they had even more to cram into the remaining episodes.

Lastly, no-one got killed by a brick. One of my favourite things to do in the game! A crying shame!