Never played the games. You can feel the big budget from the quality of the cinematography and the story is taken up a good few notches by way of quality acting... from almost everyone.

As Bella Ramsey gets more comfortable in the role her arrogance is palpable. As I was watching, her performance felt out of place, unrelated to the character she was playing, which lead me to look the TLOU original story and lookup Ellie.

Indeed, it turns out, part one is about a young Ellie, experiencing a transformative journey full of trauma and internal growing. We are instead treated to a young actress that seems preoccupied more with gratuitous cursing and weird fake acting than finding the core of Ellie's character and taking the audience through that journey.

BR had an interesting challenge to undertake, which she dismissed far to easily: it would have been quite the feat to play a weak, timid, innocent Ellie that learns through exposure and hardship, transforming through the episodes before our eyes. BR could've sought senior advice on how to put that into practice. Her coaching in GOT was far better, even though at a young age, she managed to put on enough credibility to sell her difficult role.

I am very sorry that arrogance got her off track and deprived us the audience of what could have been an otherwise excellent series.

As episodes progress my rating of this drops, last episode was awesome as BR had very few lines, yet she is too central to the whole show for me to hope to endure till the end, let alone embark on season 2.