Each week I grow more and more dumbfounded as to how people continue to rate this show so highly. There have been maybe two or 3 "pretty good" episodes so far and the rest are truly mind numbing.

In most episodes, nothing of consequence ever seems to happen and the show offers a genuinely stale and sometimes painfully-boring experience for the viewers. As a result I've seen so many fans of the series endlessly scavenging for deeper meaning to the shows extremely shallow plot to justify the lack of engaging story, mystery, or general purpose we see episode after episode, where there really is none.

It's also unfortunately that one of the best episodes yet was completely centered around two individuals who are not main characters or even part of the larger plot that are not seen again and have more or less an inconsequential impact on the main characters. That's... not good, for obvious reasons. The largely standalone side-show episode featuring exclusively side-characters should never be the most engaging, emotional, and gripping one, but that's the reality of The Last of Us.

It's getting harder and harder for me to maintain the motivation to subject myself to this visual-Valium week after week, but I just keep hoping eventually it will improve. Lately, I'm not getting my hopes up. The writers seem fine to continue throwing weekly episodes containing very little plot development, next to no character development, and most importantly of all, no infected, down the pipeline.

This could've been done so, so much better in my opinion.