Undoubtedly, they tried to make something out of a (as usual) thin video game story, but Last Of Us shows that pretty elaborate pictures and imagined background stories of characters and good acting are not enough to make an exciting series out of it. Apart from a bit of action here and there, nothing happens in many episodes. I was bored again and again. Furthermore, Last Of Us, like many zombie series, makes the mistake of losing sight of the mystery of the plague itself. The audience has to deal with the (past) lives of the main protagonists all the time, and that's it. The Walking Dead excited me (the first seasons) much more than the first season of Last Of Us.

If the series wasn't so good visually and if the actors weren't so convincing, this series would hardly be worth 4 stars, and the currently 9 stars seem to have come mainly from enthusiastic video game fans. ;)