Review of Season One:

Screen adaptations of video games are always hit and miss, but when I heard all the rave reviews about this one I started believing the hype. I shouldn't have done. On watching THE LAST OF US I felt like I was experiencing yet another run-of-the-mill, generic, hackneyed post-apocalyptic show just like THE WALKING DEAD, in which all of the interesting apocalypse stuff is hurried over in the first episode and everything gets increasingly cliched from there. Season one has only nine episodes and yet two are dull bottle fillers, while the leads are unlikeable, particularly Ramsey's bratty character. When the action hits it's pretty good, but the rest just didn't work too well for me.