The Last of Us is post-apocalyptic TV series. The first part of the pilot is a well-crafted and intense show that keeps you on the edge of your seat. The characters still lack a very well defined developed, due to the initial time jumps, and feels a bit difficult to feel invested this early on. However, there is potential for character building, but the impact of their early stories (pre-apocalyptic) remains to be seen. The pacing of the pilot is overall good but for a 1h15min episode could have explored a bit more of character development and relationships to make us feel more invested. Overall, it's a solid 7 out of 10 pilot. The TV series has potential to either become a hit or a generic zombie post-apocalyptic show, only time will tell.

After the second episode the show is now at most 6/10. The episode pacing is quite bad and bland. The characters do not have believable motivations. The episode wastes 50 minutes where nothing relevant happens to go with the same old formula of something needs to happen in the last 2 minutes. The characters do not have any development, it is unbelievable that the little kid now has such a strong bond that she doesn't want to leave at the end of the episode; when she has spent like a day or two with these people and nothing relevant happens. The characters feel also dumber and dumber everytime, a experienced couple 20 years after the apocalypse still goes with huge and loud rifles into the middle of the city and poorly equiped otherwise. Overall the second episode feels like you are watching a time lapse waiting for the last 5 minutes for something to happen to keep you engaged. However what also happens is quite poor and recycled formula of many other last zombie shows.

The third episode makes the series completly average. An episode that is disconnected from the pace of the series. It just offers an filler to meet episode guidelines from the producer or something because otherwise it does not make any sense. Yes, it is a good love story, like many others, but completly misses the point of sending any message relevant to the characters progression. This story should have been fitted in all three episodes so far, and have it interact with the main characters to feel somewhat relevant. In this way it was just a nice story completly out of nowhere, for no purpose. This downgrades this series to a best 6/10 so far.