The only reason The Last of Us has even come close to sniffing a 9+ rating on IMDB is because of Video Game fans. This is by no means intended as a critique to VG fans - I am one of them. I've never played The Last of Us, but I have heard it's an amazing piece of art, and I do hope to play it some day.

All that said, this is just not good.

I've managed to force myself through the first 25 minutes of the first episode, right up until the gang's initial escape from the city. So far, I've concluded the following:

1) The dialogue is painfully subpar. Full of tropes, cliches, witty one-liners trying to establish a relationship between the father and the daughter, on-the-nose expositional one-liners that make me roll my eyes every time someone opens their mouth, the video-game dialogue catering to the video-game audience (in the car, "Straight, road, embankment, turn left, turn right, median, shoulder.")

2) The scene with the -spoiler- twitching in the background freaked me out, very well done.

3) Three? There is no three, I haven't gotten that far. Whoever enjoys the show, kudos! It just wasn't my giant-ass-bucket of tepid, diluted tea.